Sure Start, an initiative by PATH works to promote maternal and new born health through community action in India. Get to know Sure Start better…take a look.
Peter Yeboah, MPH, MSc, Executive Director of the Christian Health Association of Ghana shares how CHAG works with the Ministry of Health in Ghana to provide health care and addresses challenges and how the organizations works to overcome them.
World Federation of Public Health Associations Presentation on Citizen Voice ...CORE Group
Citizen Voice and Action is a social accountability approach used by World Vision to improve relationships between communities and governments to strengthen services like health care and education. It is implemented in 411 areas in 43 countries. The approach involves community members monitoring local services and providing report cards and action plans to address issues. Studies in Uganda found it led to improved quality of care at health facilities and reduced under-five mortality and increased skilled birth attendance. Similar results were seen in Zambia with staffing and waiting time improvements. The approach can also be used to influence policies by linking community data to advocacy efforts. Emerging lessons indicate accountability works best when civil society and communities collaborate constructively with government.
Paul Mikov, MA, Vice President of Institutional Partnerships with Catholic Medical Mission Board shares how CMMB partners with a variety of organizations to deliver care and strengthen health systems, including a program involving care by Catholic nuns.
Integrating Community Strategy with HIV Programs:A Research Paper Appropriate...Stephen Olubulyera
Integrating Community Strategy with HIV Programs-A Research Paper Appropriate for Turkana County Setting-A review of evidence and implementation strategies
More examples of social accountability efforts in SUN countries
Plus d'examples d'efforts de redevabilite sociale dans les pays SUN
Mas ejemplos de esfuerzos de rendicion de cuenta social en los paises SUN
This document summarizes LVCT Health's experience building the capacities of organizations led by people with disabilities (DPOs) in Nyanza, Kenya to improve access to sexual and reproductive health and HIV services. LVCT Health used a participatory approach to provide training, mentorship, and coaching to three DPOs over three years. As a result, the DPOs gained stable income sources, policy documents, referral systems, and the ability to engage in advocacy. The process showed that peer-led DPOs are effective, and working with them requires patience and sustained support. There is a need to better include people with disabilities in national health planning and make services more accessible and sensitive to their needs.
End-of-project report for Strengthening Nigeria’s Response to HIV and AIDS Pr...John Engels
The document summarizes the achievements and lessons learned from the Strengthening Nigeria's Response to HIV and AIDS Program (SNR Program) implemented from 2004-2009. The SNR Program worked in 6 states to build the capacity of State Agencies for the Control of AIDS (SACAs) to coordinate multi-sectoral HIV responses. Key achievements included transforming 5 SACAs into legally recognized state agencies, strengthening their organizational and technical capacities, and increasing access to HIV services. However, continued engagement of stakeholders and expansion of services will be needed to sustain progress.
This document summarizes discussions from the 6th Conference on HIV prevention, treatment, and policy recommendations. It covers three tracks: 1) progress and challenges in HIV prevention, treatment, and support, 2) evidence-informed behavioral interventions, and 3) social determinants, capacity building, partnerships, and advocacy. Key accomplishments include expanded access to antiretroviral treatment, decreased treatment costs, and increased male involvement in prevention of mother-to-child transmission. However, reduced funding for prevention, high stigma, and non-communicable diseases competing for resources pose challenges. Recommendations include increasing prevention budgets, strengthening health services for all populations, and enhancing community involvement in health planning.
Peter Yeboah, MPH, MSc, Executive Director of the Christian Health Association of Ghana shares how CHAG works with the Ministry of Health in Ghana to provide health care and addresses challenges and how the organizations works to overcome them.
World Federation of Public Health Associations Presentation on Citizen Voice ...CORE Group
Citizen Voice and Action is a social accountability approach used by World Vision to improve relationships between communities and governments to strengthen services like health care and education. It is implemented in 411 areas in 43 countries. The approach involves community members monitoring local services and providing report cards and action plans to address issues. Studies in Uganda found it led to improved quality of care at health facilities and reduced under-five mortality and increased skilled birth attendance. Similar results were seen in Zambia with staffing and waiting time improvements. The approach can also be used to influence policies by linking community data to advocacy efforts. Emerging lessons indicate accountability works best when civil society and communities collaborate constructively with government.
Paul Mikov, MA, Vice President of Institutional Partnerships with Catholic Medical Mission Board shares how CMMB partners with a variety of organizations to deliver care and strengthen health systems, including a program involving care by Catholic nuns.
Integrating Community Strategy with HIV Programs:A Research Paper Appropriate...Stephen Olubulyera
Integrating Community Strategy with HIV Programs-A Research Paper Appropriate for Turkana County Setting-A review of evidence and implementation strategies
More examples of social accountability efforts in SUN countries
Plus d'examples d'efforts de redevabilite sociale dans les pays SUN
Mas ejemplos de esfuerzos de rendicion de cuenta social en los paises SUN
This document summarizes LVCT Health's experience building the capacities of organizations led by people with disabilities (DPOs) in Nyanza, Kenya to improve access to sexual and reproductive health and HIV services. LVCT Health used a participatory approach to provide training, mentorship, and coaching to three DPOs over three years. As a result, the DPOs gained stable income sources, policy documents, referral systems, and the ability to engage in advocacy. The process showed that peer-led DPOs are effective, and working with them requires patience and sustained support. There is a need to better include people with disabilities in national health planning and make services more accessible and sensitive to their needs.
End-of-project report for Strengthening Nigeria’s Response to HIV and AIDS Pr...John Engels
The document summarizes the achievements and lessons learned from the Strengthening Nigeria's Response to HIV and AIDS Program (SNR Program) implemented from 2004-2009. The SNR Program worked in 6 states to build the capacity of State Agencies for the Control of AIDS (SACAs) to coordinate multi-sectoral HIV responses. Key achievements included transforming 5 SACAs into legally recognized state agencies, strengthening their organizational and technical capacities, and increasing access to HIV services. However, continued engagement of stakeholders and expansion of services will be needed to sustain progress.
This document summarizes discussions from the 6th Conference on HIV prevention, treatment, and policy recommendations. It covers three tracks: 1) progress and challenges in HIV prevention, treatment, and support, 2) evidence-informed behavioral interventions, and 3) social determinants, capacity building, partnerships, and advocacy. Key accomplishments include expanded access to antiretroviral treatment, decreased treatment costs, and increased male involvement in prevention of mother-to-child transmission. However, reduced funding for prevention, high stigma, and non-communicable diseases competing for resources pose challenges. Recommendations include increasing prevention budgets, strengthening health services for all populations, and enhancing community involvement in health planning.
3 TZ Marketing Sanitation Striking Wash CommunicationWash Com
The document summarizes a marketing campaign in rural Tanzania to improve household sanitation facilities. The campaign used an integrated marketing platform across activities to encourage upgrading facilities. It engaged local governments and communities to increase awareness. Marketing efforts included events, radio soap operas, and training masons. Results showed thousands upgraded facilities and increased awareness. Lessons indicated marketing can improve sanitation and scaling up will require engaging material suppliers.
Nancy Warren Mini-U Presentation March 2014Curamericas
This document summarizes the integration of family planning services into maternal and child health programming in Liberia. Key points:
- Family planning services were introduced in 2011 and integrated into the existing community health program after external funding ended in 2012. Services were integrated into immunization outreach activities.
- Integration trained community health workers to provide family planning counseling and some methods. It increased modern contraceptive use from 2% to 61% and decreased unmet need from 68% to 22%.
- While challenges included increased workload, integration had benefits like utilizing existing resources and a network of community health volunteers to scale up comprehensive services. Lessons included applying family planning messaging to all users and clarifying return dates for integrated services.
CORE Group Fall Meeting 2010. Using Collaborative Improvement to Achieve Quality Care for Vulnerable Children in Ethiopia. - Nicole Richardson, Save the Children USA
Practical FP Integration_Parveen_5.12.11CORE Group
The document summarizes a family planning integration project in Zambia that aims to increase voluntary and informed use of family planning and reproductive health services. It does this by integrating family planning into existing maternal and child health programs through community-based distribution of contraceptives, education and awareness campaigns, and strengthening referral systems between community health workers and facilities. Key indicators in Zambia show high fertility rates, child and maternal mortality, and unmet need for family planning. The project structure involves integrating family planning inputs, processes and services across organization, project and community levels.
The document outlines the achievements of the PNG Women in Agriculture Development Foundation in empowering rural women farmers in Papua New Guinea. The Foundation uses a "farmer to farmer needs driven extension approach" where women service providers deliver agricultural support and training to registered women farmer groups. This approach has improved food security, increased production and incomes, and given rural women a voice. The Foundation recommends expanding this model of participatory, farmer-led extension to further develop partnerships between smallholders and the private sector.
This document discusses social mobilization, which refers to organizing people to collectively think and act to address development issues. It defines social mobilization and discusses its importance in strengthening community participation, decision making, and asset building for poor communities. The key elements of social mobilization include advocacy, social change, and behavior change communication. Approaches include political, community, corporate, and beneficiary mobilization. Principles emphasize personal interactions and aligning behaviors with identities. Steps involve collecting community information, forming self-help groups, and stabilizing groups through regular meetings and lending.
1) The document proposes a public-private partnership model for universalizing quality healthcare in India to address disparities in access and quality.
2) Private companies would partner with state governments through competitive tenders to establish and manage primary health centers, providing facilities and services while the government oversees operations.
3) This model aims to improve efficiency, accountability, and innovation through performance-based incentives for private partners and oversight from an audit committee, while expanding coverage and integrating local human resources.
Building capacity for creating demand in support of malaria prevention and co...Malaria Consortium
Demand creation is the strategic combination of advocacy, communication and mobilisation approaches that seek to achieve increased community awareness of, and demand for, effective malaria prevention and treatment services.
Malaria Consortium's Support to National Malaria Programme (SuNMaP) demand creation strategy for prevention currently focuses on promoting the correct use of long lasting insecticidal nets (LLINs) and the use of intermittent preventive therapy (IPT) in pregnant women. For malaria treatment, demand creation focuses on promoting improved testing, prompt and proper use of artemisinin combination therapy (ACT) treatment for individual cases of malaria, and effective home management of fever, together with referrals of severe cases to a higher-level health facility.
This learning paper discusses SuNMap's experiences of planning and implementing demand creation in Nigeria, including SuNMaP's development of a comprehensive malaria communications plan. It presents what worked well and the challenges that remain to scale up demand creation activities and to consolidate the work already done.
The document summarizes a project in Myanmar that used social franchising to improve access to healthcare. It found that:
1) A social franchising program called SPH increased optimal treatment of childhood diarrhea and malaria in rural areas.
2) The quality of care provided by SPH and SQH providers improved, such as their ability to correctly diagnose and treat pediatric malaria.
3) SQH providers successfully reached low-income tuberculosis patients in urban areas, treating a higher percentage of patients in the lowest wealth quintile compared to the national average.
4) The SPH program was found to be a cost-effective way to improve diarrhea treatment, costing $431 per disability-adjusted life year
Citizen Voice and Action is a social accountability approach used by World Vision to improve relationships between communities and governments to strengthen services like healthcare and education. It is a 3 phase process: 1) Enabling citizen engagement through rights education; 2) Community monitoring of services and generating report cards; 3) Interface meetings between communities and governments to address issues. Studies in Uganda found it led to improved health outcomes like reduced child mortality and increased facility utilization, and improved education outcomes like increased test scores. It works by strengthening collective action among community members.
Transitioning from reach every district to reach every communityJSI
The presentation describes the expansion for routine immunization from district level to community level in Africa. Reaching remote communities is important to bring immunization to all children.
Transitioning from reaching every district to reaching every communityJSI
This presentation focuses on learning acquired from the last 2-3 year effort in 8 districts across both Uganda and Ethiopia and REC-QI potential to add to the arsenal of RI strengthening tools. REC is now the number one approach to reaching hard-to-reach health facilities. Adding Quality improvement to RED/REC will combine the “what” (RED/REC) and “how” (QI) factors to strengthening for sustainable improvement in coverage and brings together all EPI stakeholders. In addition, by working at both national and lower level, REC-QI encourages peer learning and incorporation of innovations into national policies, guidelines, and protocols.
Innovations in Results-Based Financing in the Latin America and Caribbean RegionRBFHealth
Presentations delivered during "Innovations in Results-Based Financing in the Latin America and Caribbean Region" seminar at the World Bank on May 22, 2014.
These slides feature a comparative review of different types of results-based financing schemes in the Latin America and Caribbean region, as well as case studies from selected schemes.
Presentation- Overview of STAR-Ghana Media WorkstreamLamisi Dabire
This document summarizes STAR-Ghana's media work from 2010-2014. It provided over $3.9 million in grants and capacity building to media organizations to strengthen their collaboration with civil society and advocate for greater transparency and accountability in governance. 21 media organizations received grants totaling $2 million to produce issue-based coverage across health, oil and gas, education, and other sectors. This support helped media organizations more effectively convey citizen voices and influence government actions. While progress was made, challenges remain like weak media laws and organizational structures that limit specialization and grant management. Overall, STAR-Ghana found that with proper support, media can engage in important advocacy while moving past sensationalism.
Knowledge is power - Impact of interactive radio programming on women's empow...CGIAR
This presentation was given by Catherine Ragasa (International Food Policy Research Institute), as part of the Annual Scientific Conference hosted by the University of Canberra and co-sponsored by the University of Canberra, the Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR) and CGIAR Collaborative Platform for Gender Research. The event took place on April 2-4, 2019 in Canberra, Australia.
Read more: https://www.canberra.edu.au/research/faculty-research-centres/aisc/seeds-of-change and https://gender.cgiar.org/annual-conference-2019/
Strengthening Community Capacity for Effective Advocacy: A Strategy Developme...Humentum
Robert Musoke, PATH Uganda; Bernard Byagageire, PATH Uganda; Jennifer Gaberu, PATH Uganda. Presentation made during Humentum's Capacity for Humanity conference, February 2018.
1) Food for the Hungry uses a comprehensive HIV/AIDS strategy called Highly Active Retrovirus Prevention (HARP) that combines biomedical, behavioral, structural, and care approaches.
2) HARP is implemented through HIV treatment centers in Kenya and Uganda that provide integrated HIV/AIDS services and are being handed over to local partners.
3) Food for the Hungry works with various partners on HIV/AIDS programs funded by donors like PEPFAR and Global Fund that incorporate prevention, care, treatment and capacity building.
At the 2016 CCIH Annual Conference, Lauren Van Enk of the Institute for Reproductive Health discusses IRH's work in Rwanda and Uganda with faith-based organizations to help them increase their family planning services.
This document discusses strategies for increasing community engagement and service delivery in maternal, newborn, and child health (MNCH) programs. It identifies four key learning streams or strategies that have been effective in achieving community-level impact: 1) strategies to engage community structures and partners and increase social capital, 2) strategies to ensure delivery of equitable, quality community services with continuous quality improvement, 3) increased access to and coverage of quality MNCH services at the community level, and 4) reduced mortality and improved health among marginalized mothers, newborns, and children under 5. Specific effective strategies discussed include people's institutions in Bangladesh, quality improvement collaboratives in Benin, sectorization in Peru, and community action cycles in Zamb
The document describes a program in Malawi that uses a community-based tool called MyVillage My Home (MVMH) to track infant vaccination rates. The objectives are to (1) increase fully immunized children compared to baseline, and (2) monitor immunization status of infants under 12 months in two districts. MVMH engages communities and leaders to identify newborns, register them, and mobilize families for vaccination. Health surveillance assistants use MVMH to record vaccination data and meet monthly with leaders to discuss statuses. The goal is for communities to take ownership over immunization through the visual tool.
3 TZ Marketing Sanitation Striking Wash CommunicationWash Com
The document summarizes a marketing campaign in rural Tanzania to improve household sanitation facilities. The campaign used an integrated marketing platform across activities to encourage upgrading facilities. It engaged local governments and communities to increase awareness. Marketing efforts included events, radio soap operas, and training masons. Results showed thousands upgraded facilities and increased awareness. Lessons indicated marketing can improve sanitation and scaling up will require engaging material suppliers.
Nancy Warren Mini-U Presentation March 2014Curamericas
This document summarizes the integration of family planning services into maternal and child health programming in Liberia. Key points:
- Family planning services were introduced in 2011 and integrated into the existing community health program after external funding ended in 2012. Services were integrated into immunization outreach activities.
- Integration trained community health workers to provide family planning counseling and some methods. It increased modern contraceptive use from 2% to 61% and decreased unmet need from 68% to 22%.
- While challenges included increased workload, integration had benefits like utilizing existing resources and a network of community health volunteers to scale up comprehensive services. Lessons included applying family planning messaging to all users and clarifying return dates for integrated services.
CORE Group Fall Meeting 2010. Using Collaborative Improvement to Achieve Quality Care for Vulnerable Children in Ethiopia. - Nicole Richardson, Save the Children USA
Practical FP Integration_Parveen_5.12.11CORE Group
The document summarizes a family planning integration project in Zambia that aims to increase voluntary and informed use of family planning and reproductive health services. It does this by integrating family planning into existing maternal and child health programs through community-based distribution of contraceptives, education and awareness campaigns, and strengthening referral systems between community health workers and facilities. Key indicators in Zambia show high fertility rates, child and maternal mortality, and unmet need for family planning. The project structure involves integrating family planning inputs, processes and services across organization, project and community levels.
The document outlines the achievements of the PNG Women in Agriculture Development Foundation in empowering rural women farmers in Papua New Guinea. The Foundation uses a "farmer to farmer needs driven extension approach" where women service providers deliver agricultural support and training to registered women farmer groups. This approach has improved food security, increased production and incomes, and given rural women a voice. The Foundation recommends expanding this model of participatory, farmer-led extension to further develop partnerships between smallholders and the private sector.
This document discusses social mobilization, which refers to organizing people to collectively think and act to address development issues. It defines social mobilization and discusses its importance in strengthening community participation, decision making, and asset building for poor communities. The key elements of social mobilization include advocacy, social change, and behavior change communication. Approaches include political, community, corporate, and beneficiary mobilization. Principles emphasize personal interactions and aligning behaviors with identities. Steps involve collecting community information, forming self-help groups, and stabilizing groups through regular meetings and lending.
1) The document proposes a public-private partnership model for universalizing quality healthcare in India to address disparities in access and quality.
2) Private companies would partner with state governments through competitive tenders to establish and manage primary health centers, providing facilities and services while the government oversees operations.
3) This model aims to improve efficiency, accountability, and innovation through performance-based incentives for private partners and oversight from an audit committee, while expanding coverage and integrating local human resources.
Building capacity for creating demand in support of malaria prevention and co...Malaria Consortium
Demand creation is the strategic combination of advocacy, communication and mobilisation approaches that seek to achieve increased community awareness of, and demand for, effective malaria prevention and treatment services.
Malaria Consortium's Support to National Malaria Programme (SuNMaP) demand creation strategy for prevention currently focuses on promoting the correct use of long lasting insecticidal nets (LLINs) and the use of intermittent preventive therapy (IPT) in pregnant women. For malaria treatment, demand creation focuses on promoting improved testing, prompt and proper use of artemisinin combination therapy (ACT) treatment for individual cases of malaria, and effective home management of fever, together with referrals of severe cases to a higher-level health facility.
This learning paper discusses SuNMap's experiences of planning and implementing demand creation in Nigeria, including SuNMaP's development of a comprehensive malaria communications plan. It presents what worked well and the challenges that remain to scale up demand creation activities and to consolidate the work already done.
The document summarizes a project in Myanmar that used social franchising to improve access to healthcare. It found that:
1) A social franchising program called SPH increased optimal treatment of childhood diarrhea and malaria in rural areas.
2) The quality of care provided by SPH and SQH providers improved, such as their ability to correctly diagnose and treat pediatric malaria.
3) SQH providers successfully reached low-income tuberculosis patients in urban areas, treating a higher percentage of patients in the lowest wealth quintile compared to the national average.
4) The SPH program was found to be a cost-effective way to improve diarrhea treatment, costing $431 per disability-adjusted life year
Citizen Voice and Action is a social accountability approach used by World Vision to improve relationships between communities and governments to strengthen services like healthcare and education. It is a 3 phase process: 1) Enabling citizen engagement through rights education; 2) Community monitoring of services and generating report cards; 3) Interface meetings between communities and governments to address issues. Studies in Uganda found it led to improved health outcomes like reduced child mortality and increased facility utilization, and improved education outcomes like increased test scores. It works by strengthening collective action among community members.
Transitioning from reach every district to reach every communityJSI
The presentation describes the expansion for routine immunization from district level to community level in Africa. Reaching remote communities is important to bring immunization to all children.
Transitioning from reaching every district to reaching every communityJSI
This presentation focuses on learning acquired from the last 2-3 year effort in 8 districts across both Uganda and Ethiopia and REC-QI potential to add to the arsenal of RI strengthening tools. REC is now the number one approach to reaching hard-to-reach health facilities. Adding Quality improvement to RED/REC will combine the “what” (RED/REC) and “how” (QI) factors to strengthening for sustainable improvement in coverage and brings together all EPI stakeholders. In addition, by working at both national and lower level, REC-QI encourages peer learning and incorporation of innovations into national policies, guidelines, and protocols.
Innovations in Results-Based Financing in the Latin America and Caribbean RegionRBFHealth
Presentations delivered during "Innovations in Results-Based Financing in the Latin America and Caribbean Region" seminar at the World Bank on May 22, 2014.
These slides feature a comparative review of different types of results-based financing schemes in the Latin America and Caribbean region, as well as case studies from selected schemes.
Presentation- Overview of STAR-Ghana Media WorkstreamLamisi Dabire
This document summarizes STAR-Ghana's media work from 2010-2014. It provided over $3.9 million in grants and capacity building to media organizations to strengthen their collaboration with civil society and advocate for greater transparency and accountability in governance. 21 media organizations received grants totaling $2 million to produce issue-based coverage across health, oil and gas, education, and other sectors. This support helped media organizations more effectively convey citizen voices and influence government actions. While progress was made, challenges remain like weak media laws and organizational structures that limit specialization and grant management. Overall, STAR-Ghana found that with proper support, media can engage in important advocacy while moving past sensationalism.
Knowledge is power - Impact of interactive radio programming on women's empow...CGIAR
This presentation was given by Catherine Ragasa (International Food Policy Research Institute), as part of the Annual Scientific Conference hosted by the University of Canberra and co-sponsored by the University of Canberra, the Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR) and CGIAR Collaborative Platform for Gender Research. The event took place on April 2-4, 2019 in Canberra, Australia.
Read more: https://www.canberra.edu.au/research/faculty-research-centres/aisc/seeds-of-change and https://gender.cgiar.org/annual-conference-2019/
Strengthening Community Capacity for Effective Advocacy: A Strategy Developme...Humentum
Robert Musoke, PATH Uganda; Bernard Byagageire, PATH Uganda; Jennifer Gaberu, PATH Uganda. Presentation made during Humentum's Capacity for Humanity conference, February 2018.
1) Food for the Hungry uses a comprehensive HIV/AIDS strategy called Highly Active Retrovirus Prevention (HARP) that combines biomedical, behavioral, structural, and care approaches.
2) HARP is implemented through HIV treatment centers in Kenya and Uganda that provide integrated HIV/AIDS services and are being handed over to local partners.
3) Food for the Hungry works with various partners on HIV/AIDS programs funded by donors like PEPFAR and Global Fund that incorporate prevention, care, treatment and capacity building.
At the 2016 CCIH Annual Conference, Lauren Van Enk of the Institute for Reproductive Health discusses IRH's work in Rwanda and Uganda with faith-based organizations to help them increase their family planning services.
This document discusses strategies for increasing community engagement and service delivery in maternal, newborn, and child health (MNCH) programs. It identifies four key learning streams or strategies that have been effective in achieving community-level impact: 1) strategies to engage community structures and partners and increase social capital, 2) strategies to ensure delivery of equitable, quality community services with continuous quality improvement, 3) increased access to and coverage of quality MNCH services at the community level, and 4) reduced mortality and improved health among marginalized mothers, newborns, and children under 5. Specific effective strategies discussed include people's institutions in Bangladesh, quality improvement collaboratives in Benin, sectorization in Peru, and community action cycles in Zamb
The document describes a program in Malawi that uses a community-based tool called MyVillage My Home (MVMH) to track infant vaccination rates. The objectives are to (1) increase fully immunized children compared to baseline, and (2) monitor immunization status of infants under 12 months in two districts. MVMH engages communities and leaders to identify newborns, register them, and mobilize families for vaccination. Health surveillance assistants use MVMH to record vaccination data and meet monthly with leaders to discuss statuses. The goal is for communities to take ownership over immunization through the visual tool.
Laadli, A campaign to help save the girl child and prevent gender selection a...Population First - Laadli
Laadli, A girl child campaign is Population First's campaign against sex selection and falling sex ratio.Join us by making your pledge against female feticide
http://laadli.org/
Maa scheme monitoring and SWOT analysisdeepak pihal
The document presents a monitoring and evaluation framework for Mothers' Absolute Affection (MAA), a nationwide Indian government program to promote breastfeeding. It outlines the program's goals of increasing rates of early initiation of breastfeeding and exclusive breastfeeding. It describes the program's implementation at community, health center, and national levels. It proposes monitoring indicators related to inputs, processes, outputs, outcomes and impact. Key evaluation methods include analyzing health surveys and administrative data using statistical techniques to assess the program's progress toward nutrition and health targets.
Monitoring and Evaluation Framework for MAA: Mothers’ Absolute AffectionNandlal Mishra
Mothers’ Absolute Affection (MAA): A Nationwide programme of the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India initiated in August 2016 aims to revitalize efforts towards promotion, protection and support of breastfeeding practices through health systems to achieve higher breastfeeding rate.
Becoming a Model Municipality: Improving Quality of Care for Family Planning ...JSI
This poster was presented by Antonia Mesquita and Elaine Rossi at the International Conference on Family Planning (ICFP) in Kigali, Rwanda in November 2018.
USAID’s Reinforce Basic Health Services Project, implemented by JSI Research & Training Institute, Inc., works in Covalima Municipality, Timor-Leste to improve family planning (FP) services with a specific focus on quality of care (QOC). JSI developed a model municipality
approach, which merges data-driven processes with demand generation from clients and skilled providers to bring QOC to the forefront of FP services.
Mulamba Diese, MD, Chief of Monitoring and Evaluation and Head of Research, SANRU on Active Involvement of Community Health Development and Mobilization Committees as Champions Increases Demand and Coverage of Immunization Services at the CCIH 2018 conference.
The document discusses public-private partnerships (PPP) in the health sector in India, including various models of PPP and an example of a voucher scheme for maternal and child health care in Agra. Some key models of PPP discussed are social franchising, branded clinics, contracting, and voucher systems. The document outlines criteria for initiating different models of PPP, such as social franchising when expanding services rapidly. It also describes challenges faced in establishing the Agra voucher scheme and steps taken to build support and address concerns among stakeholders including government, private providers, and policymakers.
Thinking Locally and Acting Globally to End Preventable Newborn Deaths_Jennif...CORE Group
The document summarizes MCHIP Bangladesh's community interventions to improve maternal and child health outcomes. It describes the scale up of a community-based approach using community health workers and volunteers to deliver services. Key aspects included community microplanning, formation of community action groups, training of community skilled birth attendants, and engaging local governments. Preliminary results from 2010-2012 showed improvements in several maternal and newborn health indicators in project areas. Lessons learned emphasized the importance of an integrated approach and engaging communities and local institutions.
Importance of Community Health Strategy (CHS) in attaining health goals (MNCH...REACHOUTCONSORTIUMSLIDES
This document outlines Kenya's community health strategy. It discusses how community health units empower communities to take control of their health, hold leaders accountable, and improve health outcomes. The strategy aims to enhance access to healthcare through sustainable community services. Key points include:
- Community health units are a key part of Kenya's healthcare system and Vision 2030 goals.
- Over 4587 units had been established by 2015, serving over 40,000 communities.
- The strategy has contributed to improved maternal and child health indicators in Kenya.
- Continued support is needed to ensure resources, training, and data systems for community health volunteers and units.
- Research shows community health strategies can increase healthcare utilization and reduce childhood mortality.
Evidence of Social Accountability_Kamden Hoffmann_5.7.14CORE Group
The document discusses social accountability and its role in improving health outcomes. It analyzes selected social accountability models used by international NGOs, including Citizen Voice and Action (World Vision), Partnership Defined Quality (Save the Children), Community Score Card (CARE), and various approaches used by White Ribbon Alliance. Common themes across the models include preparation and planning, involvement of marginalized groups, identifying barriers, interface meetings between communities and government, and using score cards to measure services. The document recommends expanding the evidence base on effectiveness, clarifying financial and human resource needs, identifying barriers to scale up, and exploring promising practices across models.
The FMBHP is a collaboration among frontier/rural healthcare communities; Mineral Community Hospital’s Interdisciplinary Medical Education Center; iVantage, an industry leader providing comprehensive hospital evaluation tools; Mayo Clinic’s Practice-Based Research Network (PBRN); and the Appalachian Osteopathic Postgraduate Training Institute Consortium (A-OPTIC). The FMBHP will partner with CMS, IHS, Veteran Administration and other private insurers to develop a seamless and sustainable model of patient-centered and community-based healthcare that produces better outcomes cost-effectively.
Social Accountability for Improved Community Health OtchereCORE Group
WorldVision uses a social accountability approach called CitizenVoice and Action in 324 health programs across 500 clinics. This approach has been studied in partnerships with universities. The Community Score Card can measure the quality of health services and community access to and use of services. Studies show it reduced child mortality by 33% and increased facility births by 58% in one area. In India, reviving auxiliary nurse-midwife subcenters using the score card and social accountability increased services provided and access to family planning and maternal and child health services. More evidence is still needed but research shows social accountability and community score cards can improve health services and empower communities.
This document summarizes community outreach efforts to improve maternal health in six Indian states. It describes engaging community leaders, self-help groups, and youth clubs to gain support and enhance skills in developing village health plans. It also discusses working with local governments, frontline health workers, and other departments. Training targets pregnant and lactating women on issues like antenatal care, immunizations, postnatal care, health, sanitation, and government schemes. Community programs and trainings aim to empower groups and increase utilization of untied village funds and services. However, challenges remain in fully implementing food entitlement and public distribution systems, and improving conditions at government health facilities.
Strengthening the Supply Chain Workforce through Mentorship and On the Job Tr...JSI
This poster was presented by Hery Firdaus and Bethany Saad at the International Conference on Family Planning (ICFP) in Kigali, Rwanda in November 2018.
Over the past decade, contraceptive prevalence rates in Indonesia have remained stagnant in part due to inconsistent access to contraceptives at service delivery points. To address critical gaps in the system, JSI collaborated with stakeholders to design a comprehensive package of data centric interventions to strengthen the supply chain workforce, empowering them with new tools, skills and information to enable holistic and continuous supply chain improvement through mentorship, on-the-job training and feedback.
It was noted that during qualitative interviews, provincial and district staff recognized the significant role of mentorship and on-the-job training activities in improving accuracy of recording and reporting and adherence to both inventory management and storage procedures. They pointed out the importance of not only the performance management aspect of the mentorship program, but also its effect on improving communication and coordination between levels. The use of digital tools has made mentoring data visible to all levels of the system and mentors have better understanding of the facilities needs. The use of WhatsApp to communicate has also improved collaboration and coordination between mentor and mentee. The program has been extremely successful and popular with all stakeholders and all districts involved in this project have adopted it and included it in their program budgets.
The document discusses USAID partnerships with projects like Santénet2, MAHEFA, and MIKOLO to support community health volunteers (CHVs) in Madagascar. The projects train and equip CHVs, use approaches like Kaominina Mendrika Salama (KMS) to empower communities and make health services accountable. Evaluations found positive results, like increased access to family planning and treatment of illnesses. The projects also focus on sustainability; after project funding ends, 90% of people still received CHV services. CHVs continue providing critical support in remote areas with community involvement.
2018 Statewide Case Competition (1st place Team): Team 6SparkmanCenter
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This is the abstract presentation of Dr Harjyot Khosa, which was made as part of the 12th session of 10th Asia Pacific Conference on Reproductive and Sexual Health and Rights (#APCRSHR10) Virtual. This session was held in lead up to #WorldAIDSDay and #16DaysofActivism against sexual and other forms of gender-based violence, on the theme of "HIV/AIDS and sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) in Asia and the Pacific".
Chair: Jennifer Butler, Director, UNFPA Pacific Sub Regional office based in Fiji
Plenary Speaker: Eamonn Murphy, Regional Director, UNAIDS, Asia and the Pacific | “Solidarity and Accountability: HIV, SRHR and the COVID response”
Abstract Presenters:
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* Jude Tayaben | Successes, Pitfalls, and Moving Forward: Adivayan Youth Health Center- A school-based program addressing Adolescent Sexuality, and Reproductive Health Issues in Benguet, Philippines
* Samreen, Manisha Dhakal | Integrating transgender health into HIV and SRHR programming in Indonesia, Nepal, Thailand and Vietnam
* Harjyot Khosa | Stigma, sex work and non-disclosure to health care providers: Exploring dynamics of anal sex through community led monitoring to bridge gaps in HIV care continuum services
* Angela Kelly Hanku, Agnes K. Mek | I can, I want, I will and Young & Positive: Two visual method projects with young women living with HIV in Papua New Guinea
For more information on the session, please visit
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Official conference website: www.apcrshr10cambodia.org
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Sure Start is an initiative in India that works to educate women and their communities about maternal and neonatal health. In one village in Uttar Pradesh, Sure Start engaged mothers, mothers-in-law, and fathers-to-be through group meetings using games and activities to spread awareness of safe childbirth practices. As a result, the village headman estimates that 70-75% of adults became aware of such practices, and community health facilities have improved. The goal of Sure Start is to transform passive communities into active agents of change around maternal and child health.
Small miracles, big results
The Sure Start project in Nanded, Maharashtra tackled India's high maternal and infant mortality rates through an innovative community-based health insurance scheme. The scheme involved community members contributing small amounts to a fund used for health care costs. Over 200 families paid a premium of Rs. 250 to receive maternal, newborn, and general medical care as well as transportation reimbursement. Six local hospitals now participate. Collaboration between community organizations, health providers, and local government has helped overcome financial and cultural barriers to make the initiative affordable and accepted.
Dr. Rana Pratap works at a primary health center in Hardoi district, Uttar Pradesh, providing healthcare to disadvantaged communities. In 2007, the Sure Start project arrived to help mothers and children stay healthy through increasing awareness of maternal and newborn health services. Dr. Pratap found that with Sure Start's outreach, more people utilized available government services and he had to participate in community meetings to explain why certain services could not be provided. Sure Start supports local health workers like Dr. Pratap to continue providing services that fulfill government health initiatives.
A million children die during childbirth each year, which is one child every five minutes. The Sure Start project works to give every child a chance at life through their First One Hour campaign on safe childbirth, which has helped ensure that many Indian babies now celebrate their first birthdays holding their mother's hands.
A Pradhan or the Headman of a small village in India approaches PATH Sure Start asking them to help cut down childbirth mortality. See how Sure Start works to promote safe childbirth and deliver hope to hundreds of women and children in that village and in many parts of India.
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Sudama previously delivered three babies at home in a village in India, risking her life and the lives of her newborns. Now expecting her fourth child, things will be different, as thanks to Sure Start she now goes for regular check-ups at a nearby health center, eats healthy food, takes iron and folic acid tablets, and received tetanus toxoid immunization, and will deliver her baby in a hospital. Sure Start has helped thousands of women in two Indian states follow safe delivery practices, saving countless lives each day by delivering hope.
A million children die during childbirth in India each year, but the organization Sure Start is working to change that by promoting safe delivery practices in the states of Uttar Pradesh and Maharashtra. Sure Start aims to deliver the gift of life to mothers and newborns.
Sure Start is a 5-year initiative working to reduce maternal and newborn deaths in India. It works in 7 districts in Uttar Pradesh and 7 cities in Maharashtra, with a combined population of 24.5 million. Sure Start collaborates with government and community partners to increase access to healthcare and raise awareness. Key strategies include training community health workers, establishing mothers' groups, improving referral systems, and using communication campaigns. Evaluation data shows increases in institutional deliveries, antenatal registration, and vaccination rates. Sure Start aligns with national health programs to help ensure sustainability.
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These lecture slides, by Dr Sidra Arshad, offer a quick overview of the physiological basis of a normal electrocardiogram.
Learning objectives:
1. Define an electrocardiogram (ECG) and electrocardiography
2. Describe how dipoles generated by the heart produce the waveforms of the ECG
3. Describe the components of a normal electrocardiogram of a typical bipolar lead (limb II)
4. Differentiate between intervals and segments
5. Enlist some common indications for obtaining an ECG
6. Describe the flow of current around the heart during the cardiac cycle
7. Discuss the placement and polarity of the leads of electrocardiograph
8. Describe the normal electrocardiograms recorded from the limb leads and explain the physiological basis of the different records that are obtained
9. Define mean electrical vector (axis) of the heart and give the normal range
10. Define the mean QRS vector
11. Describe the axes of leads (hexagonal reference system)
12. Comprehend the vectorial analysis of the normal ECG
13. Determine the mean electrical axis of the ventricular QRS and appreciate the mean axis deviation
14. Explain the concepts of current of injury, J point, and their significance
Study Resources:
1. Chapter 11, Guyton and Hall Textbook of Medical Physiology, 14th edition
2. Chapter 9, Human Physiology - From Cells to Systems, Lauralee Sherwood, 9th edition
3. Chapter 29, Ganong’s Review of Medical Physiology, 26th edition
4. Electrocardiogram, StatPearls - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK549803/
5. ECG in Medical Practice by ABM Abdullah, 4th edition
6. Chapter 3, Cardiology Explained, https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK2214/
7. ECG Basics, http://www.nataliescasebook.com/tag/e-c-g-basics
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1. Sure Start Improved Maternal and Newborn Health through Community Action and Strengthened institutional Capacity.
2. Sure Start: At a Glance Sure Start, a project funded by the BMGF and implemented by PATH works with about 25 million individuals and hopes to improve MNH in UP and Maharashtra by Supporting relevant government health programmes Empowering communities to bring about an improvement in MNH Raising awareness on MNH using innovative communication techniques Employing unique financial models to improve demand for and supply of MNH services Ensuring a smooth flow of vital information and involving a consortium of partners in program implementation Creating client provider linkages Along with successes there were numerous challenges (to be discussed later)
3. Objective 1: Sure Start: Objectives To significantly increase individual household and community actions that directly and indirectly improve maternal and newborn health
4. Objective 2: To enhance systems and institutional capabilities for sustained improved maternal newborn care and health Sure Start: Objectives
5. Empowering Communities Sure Start’s approach is based on extensive engagement with rural and urban communities Training ASHAs Strengthening VHSCs Fostering mothers’ groups Empowering communities to reach out to service providers, program planners and policy makers Establishing MOMs committees Setting up community support groups, community action groups and volunteer groups Enabling communities to to monitor the quality and acceptability of health service Facilitating community-health provider dialogue
6. Empowering Communities: Examples of Progress ASHAs: 7,540 have been trained VHSCs: Strengthened 2,811 committees and 34,000 meetings have taken place at which MNH plans were made and reviewed Mothers’ groups: 80,000 meetings with 12,00,000 women MOMs committees: 30 committees established Volunteers:1,634 volunteers recruited Community groups: 35 groups groups in Nagpur and 20 in Navi Mumbai
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8. Raising Awareness: Examples of Progress Five billboards and 750 rickshaws in each district carry MNH messaging Innovative letters from the unborn child have been distributed to 40,000 fathers-to-be 89% villages have emergency transport plans displayed in at least two prominent places Increased demand for IFA tablets in Solapur Increased demand for JSY payments Rise in early registrations
9. Raising Awareness: Early Indicators of Success 80% of all women in their 3rd trimester chose to receive the TT2 injections while 79% received IFA tablets, partly as a result of Sure Start efforts to raise awareness in UP Partly due to innovative IPC material developed by Sure Start there has been a steady increase in attendance at mothers’ groups meetings from 5.8% in baseline to 47% in June '09 Percentage of women attending antenatal check ups in Navi Mumbai:
10. Managing Change Working in two states and collaborating with 95 partners requires Sure Start to use innovative management approaches The Management Information System Building the capacity of partners
11. MIS The Management Information System in UP SO DHS/CMO RKS/MO in charge VHSC/Pradhan/ANM ASHAs Informationin Informationout Number of home visits for behaviour change communication Percentage of institutional deliveries Percentage of ANCs reached for institutional deliveries Number of pregnant women/mother-in-laws attending MG meetings attending Number of VHSCs Outcome of pregnancies for mothers and newborns Number of women practicing recommended behaviour Information related to supplies, quality of services, availability of staff, vacancies, referrals addressed, etc. All stakeholders are being taught to interpret and use the MIS data relevant to their level
12. Working with partners: Examples of progress UP Institutional, financial, technical and human resource management capabilities have been built Example of Impact: 42 out of 55 consortium partners received programme funding from the Government and private donors due to improvements in their systems and enhanced credibility PANI is replicating the Sure Start model in 4 districts through funding from CAIRN Energy India
13. Working with partners: Examples of progress Maharashtra Regular training of partners in advocacy, financial management and improvement in capacity building 3 day trainings for frontline Government health workers to effectively build their capacities for the provision of antenatal care Partnerships and collaboration with private practitioners for improved MNH services to the community (subsidised care, adoption of protocols and improvement in QoC) CM of Maharashtra commends Sure Start in a joint advocacy event and highlighted the government’s commitment to improve MNH in the state
14. Innovative Financial Models In Maharashtra, Sure Start employs innovative models of improved MNH financing for communities Public-Private Partnership in Navi Mumbai: collaboration between the NMMC and professional bodies of obstetricians, gynaecologists, paediatricians, dieticians and yoga trainers hospitals to provide improved MNH services
15. Innovative Financial Models Community-based health insurance in NANDED: 200 families have enrolled in a community-based health insurance plan Emergency fund in NAGPUR: 35 emergency health funds have been established that allow the urban poor to access resources for MNH and other health needs
16. From inception, Sure Start in UP has been designed to work with and build upon the NRHM NRHM:2012 SS, UP: 2010 ü Provision for an incentive-basedheath volunteer over1000 population (ASHA) Strengthening approx 7540 ASHAsusing NRHM guidelines ü Facilitating district, block andvillage-level planning and review.Strengthening VHSCs-30,000 meetings have taken place since September 2007 Decentralised planning andestablishment of Village Health &Sanitation Committees (VHSCs) ü Strengthening local capacitiesand partnerships with NGOsand private providers Increased emphasis onpublic private partnership ü Systematic evidence based advocacy and communication activities for community reach and demand for quality of services Sporadic IEC activities ü Demonstrating a system for two-way flow of information through MIS reporting and feedback mechanisms Two-way information flow of data
17. Similarly, in Maharashtra Sure Start is fully integrated with the soon-to-be-launched NUHM NUHM SS, Maharashtra ü Public health delivery system– focusing on inadequacies,strategies to strengthen Inadequacies in the public healthsystem identified through situationanalysis in the seven cities ü Weak management capacitiesof local municipal bodies Building capacities ofthe municipal corporations ü Data being generatedthrough the MIS No data available ü Testing a model on convergenceof maternal and newborn healthand HIV/AIDS Convergence ü Strengthening client provider linkages with diverse group of providers and community level workers Multiplicity of service provider
18. Challenges Community behaviors and strong beliefs around MNH practices Limited skills available in the field: intense capacity building High staff turnover: increasing as project reaches maturity Ensuring quality referral services Empowerment can lead to clashes Fostering a positive advocacy approach among NGO partners i.e. bridging the public–private divide Frequent transfers of key officials Slow roll out of the government health programme Maintaining motivation of the Sure Start partners and sustaining their interest
19. How we will measure success Evidence of community action, individual knowledge and behaviour change will be collected Gauging a change in community attitudes to MNH. Analyzing community activation through VHSCs and Community Groups. Collecting data on MNH becoming a health priority Estimating the degree of awareness of safe birth practices , recognition of danger signs, etc. Examining indirect indicators of change such as early registrations, use of IFA tablets, TT immunizations, institutional deliveries and ANC checkups, PNC check ups
20. How we will measure success/2 Evidence of concrete steps to improve MNH will be collected Looking at number of villages with emergency transportation plans Examining the number of villages with easily accessible emergency information Estimating the number of home visits and mothers’ groups that are sustainable
21. How we will measure success/3 Trends in NMR Some academics are questioning the reliability of short-term fluctuations in NMR Baseline data suggested lower-than-expected NMR Shifts in mortality may not be strong but indicators relating to attitude/behaviour change are also measures of success
Editor's Notes
Will mention the something along these lines-Sure Start, by spreading awareness on government programmes that incentiviseinsitutional deliveries, has contributed to a decrease in deliveries at home.We need to add this caveat to this graph-Through spreading awareness on improved MNH and high-impact government programs such as the JananiSurakshaYojana, Sure Start is helping an increasing number of women to give birth safely in health centres or hospitals across project areas.