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Respectful care is of increasing interest within RMNCAH. Concurrently, there has been a call for health systems to be accountable to the populations they serve for delivering quality care. This technical report examines the empirical evidence and theoretical basis of social accountability interventions’ influence on respectful care across RMNCAH.
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To deliver high quality care for every small and sick newborn, we need to have the right space, the right people and the right supplies, backed by supportive leadership and data for action. This requires a package of care with families at the centre ensuring zero separation between parents and their newborns. A whole health [more…]
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The Global Early Adolescent Study is a worldwide investigation into how gender norms evolve and inform a spectrum of health outcomes in adolescence. This seeks to better understand how gender socialization in early adolescence occurs around the world, and how it shapes health and wellness for individuals and their communities. The project organized a webinar [more…]
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With the support of Jhpiego, the Government of India implemented an initiative called ‘Dakshata’, which aimed at improving QoC in intra and immediate postpartum period for the mother and child in Rajasthan region of India through focused and customized trainings for strategic skill-building of providers on high-impact essential practices. The foundation of this strategic initiative [more…]
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The Adolescent Kit for Expression and Innovation is a package of guidance, tools, activities, and supplies to support adolescents ages 10-18, especially those who are affected by humanitarian crises. The Kit aims to bring about positive change in adolescents’ lives through arts and innovation. The activities offer adolescents the chance to express themselves, experiment, solve [more…]
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This publication, produced by the World Health Organization and UNICEF, has been developed to support the implementation of the WHO guidelines on mental health promotive and preventative interventions for adolescents, released in 2020. The Toolkit includes a core set of evidence-informed strategies to promote and protect adolescent mental health. These strategies focus on: the implementation [more…]
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In the 28 years since the International Conference on Population and Development, there has been remarkable progress on various aspects of adolescent sexual and reproductive health. For example, the rate of adolescent childbearing globally has declined from 47.9 births per 1,000 girls in 2010 to 41.2 births per 1,000 girls in 2020. The rates of [more…]
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The Podcast series, Adolescents in Crisis: unheard voices, is a five-part podcast series that shines a light on the millions of adolescents around the world who are forced to flee their homes. They form part of a global community of some 70 million refugees, displaced because of persecution, climate crises and conflict. Nearly half of [more…]
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The World Health Organization (WHO) sexual, reproductive, maternal, newborn, child and adolescent health (SRMNCAH) policy document repository includes close to 5,000 documents from approximately 140 countries submitted through the 2018-2019 WHO RMNCAH Policy Survey. The documents were submitted by national survey respondents and were organized and catalogued by the WHO Department of Maternal, Newborn, Child [more…]
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This MOMENTUM Knowledge Accelerator report provides an overview of current organizational capacity literature and proposes a new enhanced framework that reflects on the evolution of capacity development thinking in recent years. It considers performance, resilience, sustainability, adaptive learning, and systems thinking and hones in on a limited set of key observable behaviors and practices that [more…]
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