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

Publish Date: June 2014
Author: MCHIP
Language: English

More than 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 impact at the population level, but implementing at scale involves system-related challenges that often are not faced during small-
scale trials. Thus, improved knowledge of the science of scale-up is crucial to achieving population-level impact.

This report aims to increase understanding of how HBB can best be scaled up by documenting the processes that the Bangladesh Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MOHFW) and its partners followed during the national rollout of HBB between 2011 and 2013.