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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Adolescents often face significant social and structural barriers to optimal sexual and reproductive health and development. To address these barriers, International Medical Corps in collaboration with local community partners implemented an integrated adolescent health project in Gondar City, in northwest Ethiopia. The project combined community-based activities with rehabilitation and systems support interventions to lay a [more…]
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In recent years, a great deal of debate and rhetoric in global health has focused on the importance of health systems strengthening (HSS), especially in fragile situations. The ways policy-makers conceptualize HSS are, cependant, multiple and confusing. The goal of the guidance is to help professionals involved in the assessment of health systems under stress [more…]
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In many health systems, empanelment signifies a step toward more effective and better coordinated primary health care by helping to transform reactive care, oriented around visits, into proactive care that can deliver broader improvements to population health. Dans l'année 2017, the Joint Learning Network’s People-Centered Integrated Care learning collaborative convened practitioners from 10 countries to further [more…]
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Tackling the Taboo focuses on the need to address social control of adolescent girls’ sexuality in the fight against child, early and forced marriage and unions, and highlights the vital role played by gender-transformative program. The report presents findings from a review of 23 organizations that work at the intersection of child marriage and sexuality, [more…]
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Effective supervision approaches and practices help compensate for shortfalls in human resources for health (HRH) training, le management, and efforts to improve the quality of health services. USAID’s HRH2030 program conducted a landscape analysis report that classifies and summarizes impactful enhancements for health workforce supervision and the direct effects on maternal, newborn, and child health; VIH; [more…]
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The Implementing Best Practices (IBP) Initiative, the Inter-agency Working Group on Reproductive Health in Crises (IAWG), UNFPA, IPPF, and WHO convened over 40 organizations in Istanbul to share experiences, tools, and resources about sexual and reproductive health and rights programming across the humanitarian development nexus. Ten key issues emerged as priorities to consider when implementing [more…]
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Pregnancy clubs reflect an important innovation in how antenatal care (ANC) services are delivered and how health providers and women partner with each other toward shared goals. While this approach holds promise in meeting the social support and information needs of pregnant women and for improving the quality and coverage of ANC, further implementation experience [more…]
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Domestic Resources (DR) Use (U) and Mobilization (M), or DRUM, for UHC focuses on the efficient use of resources for health. Many countries face critical shortfalls in domestic resource mobilization for health, threatening to push health goals out of reach. Health goals matter because health is a human right, but health is increasingly linked to [more…]
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