This two-page brief highlights key points from the final evaluations of nine Child Survival and Health Grants Program projects that ended in 2011.
Review of monitoring of malaria in pregnancy through national health management information systems: Results from six countries in sub-Saharan Africa
MCHIP, with support from the President’s Malaria Initiative (PMI), conducted a review of national health management information systems in a sample of six PMI focus countries: Kenya, Mozambique, Malawi, Mali, Tanzania and Uganda. The aim was to improve the understanding of how ministries of health are monitoring and reporting on their malaria in pregnancy-related program results and how the data …
Review of monitoring of malaria in pregnancy through national health management information systems: Malawi
MCHIP, with support from the President’s Malaria Initiative (PMI), conducted a review of national health management information systems in a sample of six PMI focus countries: Kenya, Mozambique, Malawi, Mali, Tanzania and Uganda. The aim was to improve the understanding of how ministries of health are monitoring and reporting on their malaria in pregnancy-related program results and how the data …
Immunisation Training Needs in Malawi
This MCHIP co-authored article, published in East African Medical Journal, reviews the current status of immunization training programs in Malawi’s health training institutions. Recommendations include updating training curricula and ensuring service providers are regularly trained. To read the abstract, click here. (Note: Access to the full article requires a subscription.)
A Review of the Maternal and Newborn Health Content of National Health Management Information Systems in 13 Countries in Sub- Saharan Africa and South Asia
To understand the current status of national health management information system (HMIS) capacity to capture indicators of the content and quality of antenatal care and labor and delivery services in priority USAID countries where MCHIP works, and to gauge the scale of work yet to be done to improve the utility of health management information systems, MCHIP conducted a desk …
Lessons Learned from the Scale-Up Experience of Six High-Impact Interventions in Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn, and Child Health
One of MCHIP’s cross-cutting themes was to support governments to bring high-impact health interventions to scale. This review draws on 18 case studies involving MCHIP support to scale up six health interventions. The research team conducted desk reviews for each case study based on project documents and published and gray literature, supplemented by in-country teams’ self-assessments of progress in institutionalizing …
A Joint Process Documentation of the Scale-Up of the Helping Babies Breathe Initiative in Bangladesh and Malawi
Over 60 countries have introduced HBB 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 this introduces a set of system-related challenges that are not faced during small-scale trials. Improved understanding of the science of scale-up is crucial to achieving population-level impact. …
A Process Documentation of the Scale-Up of the Helping Babies Breathe Initiative in Malawi
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 …
Tracking implementation progress for Kangaroo Mother Care
This brief provides an overview of results from an evaluation of KMC implemention in four countries: Malawi, Mali, Rwanda and Uganda.
Moving malaria in pregnancy programs from neglect to priority: experience from Malawi, Senegal and Zambia
This article, published in the journal Global Health: Science and Practice, describes the results of a systematic case study methodology to assess health system strengths and challenges as they relate to malaria in pregnancy (MIP) in Malawi, Senegal and Zambia. Data were collected between 2009 and 2011 through desk reviews and key informant interviews. The data were subsequently analyzed across …
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