A Process Documentation of the Scale-Up of the Helping Babies Breathe Initiative in Malawi

Publish Date: June 2014
Author: MCHIP
Language: English

Over 60 countries have introduced HBB at some level but relatively few have attempted a national rollout. Interventions such as HBB must be implemented at scale in order to achieve population-level impact, but this introduces a set of system-related challenges that often are not faced during small-scale trials. Improved understanding of the science of scale-up is crucial to achieving impact at the population-level. This report aims to increase understanding of how HBB can best be scaled up by documenting the processes that the Malawian government and its partners followed during the national rollout of HBB between 2011 and 2013.