Strengthening Implementation of Home-Based Records for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health: a Guide for Country Program Managers

The World Health Organization recommends the use of home-based records as a complement to facility-based records for the care of pregnant women, mothers, newborns, and children in order to improve care-seeking behaviors, men’s involvement and support in the household, maternal and child home care practices, infant and child feeding, and communication between health workers and women, parents, and caregivers.

Despite the wide use of home-based records, implementation challenges persist, such as stock-outs, incorrect use of home-based records by health workers or low retention by women, parents, and caregivers that impede the home-based record’s potential.

The guide was developed in response to the implementation issues and seeks to provide decision-making tools and activities, links to existing resources , and examples from countries that can be used to strengthen processes for planning, design, implementation, and monitoring of home-based records.

Accompanying resources can be found here.

Last modified: March 31, 2023

Language: English

Source: WHO

Year of Publication: 2023

Assessing Application of WHO Global Standards for Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health Services in Five West African Countries

This technical brief examines the results of the CS4FP Plus 2019 study of adolescent sexual and reproductive health (ASRH) service delivery in five West African countries (Côte d’Ivoire, Guinea, Mali, Mauritania, and Niger) and the degree to which ASRH service delivery in those countries aligns with the WHO/UNAIDS’s Global Standards for Quality Health Care Services for Adolescents. The brief also includes recommendations for policymakers and program planners in the five countries.

Source: IntraHealth

Date of Publication: March 31, 2023

Tutorat: A Comprehensive Approach to Empowering Health Care Providers and Their Facilities in Senegal

This brief details the Tutorat approach, which emphasizes capacity building of health service providers within their health centers by trained peers through intensive on-site, on-the-job, tailored mentorship over the period of several months. Providers participating in this approach had impressive gains in the reproductive health modules: Management of pregnancy, delivery, and post-partum and Family planning.

This resource is also available in French.

Source: IntraHealth

Date of Publication: March 31, 2023

The Sexual and Reproductive Health and Universal Health Coverage Learning by Sharing Portal

The portal is a joint initiative led by the World Health Organization (WHO) and the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) equipping multiple stakeholders with the necessary evidence and “how to” tools to advance the SRH-UHC integration agenda.

The portal heeds the call of the 2019 United Nations High-Level Meeting on UHC, the WHO Human Reproduction Programme’s Governing Body (Policy Coordination Committee), national-level decision-makers, civil society and women, girls and diverse populations to urgently prioritize the integration of SRH in wider UHC strategies and plans.

Last modified: March 31, 2023

Language: English

Source: WHO

Year of Publication: 2022

Family Planning Financing Roadmap

The Family Planning Financing Roadmap is a resource for those working on family planning (FP) issues in developing countries, designed for anyone regardless of how little knowledge of health financing topics they begin with. It is comprised of several sections, most excitingly the interactive roadmap and resource library.

The interactive roadmap is a tool that enables users to select their country of interest and learn about tailored, contextualized recommendations on potential family planning (FP) financing options for the country. Users click through several screens to characterize the current family planning situation, macroeconomic environment, health financing environment, health reforms, and FP financing environment, reviewing pre-loaded quantitative and categorical information. They are also able to input their own updated data along each step.

Last modified: March 31, 2023

Language: English, French

Source: USAID

Year of Publication: 2022

Recommendations on Digital Interventions for Health System Strengthening

The key aim of this guideline is to present recommendations based on a critical evaluation of the evidence on emerging digital health interventions that are contributing to health system improvements, based on an assessment of the benefits, harms, acceptability, feasibility, resource use and equity considerations.

This guideline urges readers to recognize that digital health interventions are not a substitute for functioning health systems, and that there are significant limitations to what digital health is able to address.

Last modified: March 31, 2023

Language: English

Source: WHO

Year of Publication: 2019

Digital Implementation Investment Guide (DIIG): Integrating Digital Interventions into Health Programmes

This practical Guide serves as a companion to the “WHO guideline: recommendations on digital interventions for health system strengthening” and provides a systematic process for countries to develop a costed implementation plan for digital health within one or more health programme areas, drawing guidance from the WHO guideline–recommended digital health interventions, providing direction to ensure investments are needs-based and contribute effective and interoperable systems aligned with national digital architecture, country readiness, health system and policy goals.

Last modified: March 31, 2023

Language: English

Source: WHO

Year of Publication: 2020

Sexual and reproductive health and rights: infographic snapshot

Realization of Sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) requires provision of comprehensive, people-centred services, that address the different elements of SRHR, and which are supported by an enabling environment, quality health systems, and meaningful community engagement. Multiple, synergistic cross-linkages exist within and between the different SRHR elements, leading to sequential outcome benefits throughout the life course.

By highlighting the national SRHR situation – including successes, areas for improvement, and data gaps – these snapshots can be used for determining priorities, planning of programmes, resource mobilization, and strengthening of health systems, service delivery and community engagement.

Last modified: March 31, 2023

Language: English

Source: WHO

Year of Publication: 2021

Training Resource Package for Family Planning

The Training Resource Package (TRP) for Family Planning is designed to address the dynamic professional needs of health workers across all clinical and community-based cadres and for adaptation and use for ‘in-service’ and ‘pre-service’ competency-based training. The Package includes modules, training guides, videos, slide decks, links to other resources and a community page to share experiences, opportunities and lessons learned using the materials.

The training package includes materials available in French and Spanish.

Last modified: March 30, 2023

Language: English, French, Spanish

Source: WHO, USAID, UNFPA

Year of Publication: 2020

Consolidated Telemedicine Implementation Guide

Telemedicine – which involves the delivery of healthcare services over distance– has the potential to improve clinical management and extend coverage of services. In particular, the COVID-19 pandemic and related service delivery restrictions generated significant interest in implementing and scaling up telemedicine services. In response to the global increase in demand, this guide provides an overview of key steps and considerations for implementing telemedicine and optimizing its benefits and impact. The guide aims to be an evolving document that harnesses learnings emerging from the COVID-19 pandemic, while synthesizing key considerations from WHO resources relevant developed over the past decade. Overall, this consolidated guide provides a comprehensive overview of the key planning, implementation and maintenance processes to inform a costed investment plan and support countries across different stages in their telemedicine journey.

Last modified: March 30, 2023

Language: English

Source: WHO

Year of Publication: 2022

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