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- Budgeting and Advocacy to Improve Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene in Health Care Facilities: A Case Study in Nepal
We demonstrated that costing and advocacy can be successfully used to establish budgets and policies for sustainable operations and maintenance of water, sanitation, and hygiene in health care facilities in Thakurbaba municipality, Nepal, as part of progressing toward universal access.
- Journey From a Digital Innovation to a Sustainable Health Worker Capacity-Building App in India: Experiences, Challenges, and Lessons Learned
We describe the development and implementation of a digital human-centered, interactive knowledge and skill-building platform to complement traditional classroom training and help meet the timely knowledge and skill needs of every health worker effectively and uniformly.
- Learnings From the Implementation of an Electronic Human Resource Management System for the Health Workforce in Uttar Pradesh, India
Electronic human resource management systems can be used to improve the equitable distribution of the health workforce, contributing to increased availability of health services and improved health outcomes.
- Integration of Acute Malnutrition Treatment Into Integrated Community Case Management in Three Districts in Southern Mali: An Economic Evaluation
Supportive supervision of health centers and community health workers providing treatment for acute malnutrition comes at significant costs but is needed to achieve good health outcomes. The most cost-effective way of delivering this treatment requires further research.
- Boosting Contraceptive Uptake in Urban Uganda: Older Women Benefit When Layering Adolescent and Youth Interventions Onto Existing Family Planning Programming
Layering interventions designed to increase access to contraceptive uptake for adolescents and youth onto existing family planning programming resulted in boosting uptake for older women as well as adolescents and youth.
- What Underlies State Government Performance in Scaling Family Planning Programming? A Study of The Challenge Initiative State Partnerships in Nigeria
This study generated insights for government partners as they expand and institutionalize interventions introduced by intermediary scaling partners such as TCI and shows the value of strengthening the factors that best support local government scaling efforts.
- Implementing Quality Improvement Initiatives to Improve the Use of Adolescent- and Youth-Friendly Health Services in Zou, Benin
Implementing initiatives to improve the quality of adolescent- and youth-friendly health services resulted in improvements in quality assessment scores and increased contraceptive uptake among adolescents and youth.
- Improving the Quality of Adolescent and Youth-Friendly Health Services Through Integrated Supportive Supervision in Four Nigerian States
Integrating quality assurance in Nigeria’s family planning supportive supervision system improved the quality of adolescent- and youth-friendly health services and contraceptive uptake by clients aged 15–24 years.
- Increasing Contraceptive Use Through Free Family Planning Special Days in Poor Urban Areas in Francophone West Africa
Through the support of local governments and The Challenge Initiative, Family Planning Special Days successfully facilitated the delivery of free family planning services to urban West African populations with high levels of poverty and unmet need.
- Innovations in Public Financing for Family Planning at Subnational Levels: Sustainable Cofinancing Strategies for Family Planning With Nigerian States
Using a cofinancing strategy, we present an innovative model on how local governments can collaborate with partners to harness all available resources and improve accountability through transparent agreement and documentation for sustainable development programming.