This two-page brief highlights key points from the final evaluations of nine Child Survival and Health Grants Program projects that ended in 2011.
Case Studies of Large-Scale Community Health Worker Programs
Case studies from Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Brazil, Ethiopia, India, Indonesia, Iran, Nepal, Pakistan, Rwanda, Zambia and Zimbabwe.
Postnatal Care Home Visit: A Review of the Current Status of Implementation in Five Countries
This report gives an account of the early development of community-based newborn programs in five countries—Bangladesh, Malawi, Nepal, Nigeria and Rwanda—in which postnatal home visits have featured prominently.
Community-based intervention packages facilitated by NGOs demonstrate plausible evidence of child mortality impact
Co-authored by MCHIP staff, this article was published in Health Policy and Planning and presents the results of an analysis of 12 community-based projects implemented by nongovernmental organizations worldwide. The projects are funded through USAID’s Child Survival and Health Grants Program to which MCHIP gives technical support. All 12 projects substantially increased coverage of multiple high-impact interventions. LiST analyses showed …
Spousal Separation and Interpretation of Contraceptive Use and Unmet Need in Rural Nepal
Nepal has experienced a relatively rapid increase in use of family planning. Simultaneously, spousal separation caused by migration for employment has increased. To determine contraceptive prevalence and unmet need in such circumstances, disaggregating family planning use by the residence status of the husband gives a more complete picture of family planning need and use at the population level. Such disaggregated …
Testing innovative maternal, newborn, and child health approaches to serve vulnerable communities: USAID’s partnerships with 14 International Non-Governmental Organizations (INGOs) through the Child Survival & Health Grants Program in 16 countries
This brief provides an overview of the international nongovernmental organizations-designed innovations currently supported by the Child Survival and Health Grants Program, and the operations research poised to advance policies and strategies at the national and global levels.