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- Improving Malaria Case Management and Referral Relationships at the Primary Care Level in Ghana: Evaluation of a Quality Assurance Internship
The authors report that an innovative internship and mentoring program for community health officers in Ghana was associated with improved knowledge and skills related to malaria management, including timely, appropriate referrals for severe cases.
- Understanding the Mechanisms of Change in the Supportive and Respectful Maternity Care Intervention in Sindh, Pakistan: Provider Perspectives
The authors identify ways that a supportive and respectful maternity care intervention was implemented along multiple pathways–and concertedly with various health system components–to enable positive processes and behavioral change in maternity teams.
- Advocacy as a Tool for Advancing Family Planning in the Democratic Republic of the Congo: A Case Study
This article analyzes the processes used in the Democratic Republic of the Congo to achieve 4 advocacy wins—evidence that systematic efforts at policy advocacy can result in concrete outcomes.
- Lessons Learned From the Implementation of a School-Based Sexual Health Education Program for Adolescent Girls in Cape Town, South Africa
Community engagement and acceptability of sexual education programs for adolescents alone are insufficient to ensure program uptake and engagement.
- Improving Program Outcomes Through Responsive Feedback: A Case Study of a Leadership Development Academy in Nigeria
The National Primary Health Care Development Agency in Nigeria used a responsive feedback mechanism to successfully establish a leadership development academy for building core leadership, management, and basic functional skills among its staff.
- Codeveloping an Adolescent Health Program in India During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Case Study of a Community-Partnered Responsive Feedback Approach
Adolescent Health Champions used responsive feedback to adapt its peer education intervention to address negative impacts on adolescents' mental and physical health and closures caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.
- Using Responsive Feedback in Scaling a Gender Norms-Shifting Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health Intervention in the Democratic Republic of Congo
Responsive feedback mechanisms—especially a culture of learning among donors, researchers, and implementers—facilitated timely adaptations and scale-up efforts of an adolescent sexual and reproductive health program in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
- Using a Responsive Feedback Approach to Develop and Pilot a Counseling Chatbot to Strengthen Child Nutrition in Rural India
The authors report on developing and testing a chatbot to facilitate additional client contact points for information and counseling to improve child nutrition outcomes in rural India.
- Leveraging Responsive Feedback to Redesign a Demand Generation Strategy: Experience From the IntegratE Project in Lagos State, Nigeria
Authors detail using a responsive feedback approach to reflect on successes and challenges of an interpersonal communication agent strategy and adapt the strategy to address gaps in performance to increase contraceptive uptake.
- Research to Help Projects Operate Successfully
Operational research is central to project success; an explicit conceptual and operational model can underpin questions that merit attention, prioritizing those where doubt is high and where responsive changes are likely.