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mSakhi: An Interactive Mobile Phone-Based Job Aid for Accredited Social Health Activists
Two studies demonstrate that, compared with existing paper-based job aids, mobile phone-based mSakhi is a more user-friendly and effective accredited social health activist (ASHA) job aid for a range of activities,including self-learning, counselling, and newborn assessment
Improving Health Through the Social Quality Approach in 800 Communes in Madagascar
To help empower the Malagasy people to address their own health needs, the USAID/Santenet2 program introduced the social quality approach in 800 communes in Madagascar. The social quality approach is...
Scaling Up Health Worker Production: The Bottlenecks and Best Buys Approach
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Project: CapacityPlus
Series: Technical Brief #9
Date: 2013
Description: This technical brief presents an overview of an approach to help identify...
Report on the Society for Family Health Gender Assessment
The Society for Family Health conducted an exercise to assess gender mainstreaming in their internal organizational processes and programming so that its programming responds to President’s Emergency...
"That's Improvement!": Uganda Focuses on Health Workers
Meet three Ugandan health workers who love their jobs. Agnes, Habiba, and Alex find joy in serving their clients, but they face many challenges—and there are simply not enough health workers to meet...
Prasav Parivahan Seva: Lessons from an Integrated Transportation Service for Mothers and Newborns in Jhansi District, Uttar Pradesh
Project: The Manthan Project
Date: 2013
Description: The state of Uttar Pradesh contributes close to 30% of maternal and neonatal deaths in India. Women from rural, remote, and disadvantaged...
A Decade of Determination and Dedication: Improving Maternal, Newborn, and Child Health in Ethiopia
Ethiopia has made tremendous progress in providing health services to its large (87 million), and largely rural (83%), population. This is reflected in significant improvements in many maternal and...
Creating an Enabling Environment for Human Resources for Health Program Implementation in Three African Countries
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Project: CapacityPlus
Date: 2013
Description: Over the past decade, global and national health leaders have increasingly recognized...
Applying the workload indicators of staffing need (WISN) method in Namibia: challenges and implications for human resources for health policy
As part of ongoing efforts to restructure the health sector and improve health care quality, the Ministry of Health and Social Services (MoHSS) in Namibia sought to update staffing norms for health...
Innovative Financing for Preservice Education of Health Professionals
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Project: CapacityPlus
Date: 2013
Description: In an environment of limited resources, educational institutions must be creative in finding...