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MATERNAL AND CHILD HEALTH AND NUTRITION TECHNICAL ROADMAP 2030
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Getting to 2030: Maternal and Child Health and Nutrition Technical Roadmap

The Getting To 2030: Maternal and Child Health and Nutrition Technical Roadmap is a framework that guides USAID’s maternal and child survival programs. It serves as a foundational component of USAID’s commitment to Prevent Child and Maternal Deaths alongside the Agency’s investments in family planning, malaria, and health systems strengthening.

This roadmap:

  • Shapes collaborative efforts across USAID Bureaus, Missions, U.S. Government agencies, external stakeholders, and partners.
  • Supports a coordinated, strategic approach to strengthening essential services for women and children and health systems
  • Informs the development, measurement, and adjustment of country level strategic plans led by host country governments with support from USAID missions and other stakeholders.

Source: USAID

Date of Publication: November 9, 2022

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Social and Behavior Change and Health Systems Strengthening
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Social and Behavior Change and Health System Strengthening

Health system strengthening (HSS) comprises the strategies, responses, and activities that are designed to sustainably improve country health system performance. Social and behavior change (SBC) programming is an approach that applies systematic insights about why people behave the way they do, and how behaviors change, to effect positive outcomes for and by specific groups of people. But what is the role of SBC within HSS programs? This document identifies how the behavior of health system actors has a direct impact on the strength of the overall health system and health outcomes. It highlights how SBC may be integrated into HSS programs to strengthen HSS program implementation and measurement, and improve the system’s ability to support the practice of healthy behaviors.

Last modified: September 2, 2022

Language: English

Source: USAID

Year of Publication: 2022

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Community Approaches to Child Health in Malawi: Applying the Community Integrated Management of Childhood Illness (C-IMCI) Framework

The C-IMCI Framework is made up of three elements: (1) improving partnerships between health facilities and the communities they serve; (2) increasing appropriate and accessible health care and information from community-based providers; and (3) integrating promotion of key family practices critical for child health and nutrition, and a multi-sectoral platform. The intent of the C-IMCI Framework is to enable NGOs and governments to categorize their existing community-based program efforts and develop and implement a coordinated, integrated strategy to improve child health. The framework is designed to address each of the three key elements and a multi-sectoral platform that would be most effective in improving child health.

This paper documents World Relief’s approach to C-IMCI interventions at the household level in Malawi, where the government is dedicated to implementing C-IMCI through its community network of health surveillance assistants. Included are sections on: background, Care Group Model, Programming, Results, Lessons Learned, and Scale Up / Costs.

Source: Core Group, World Relief

Date of Publication: October 17, 2021

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Engaging Boys and Men in Gender Transformation: The Group Education Manual

This 11-chapter manual offers trainers an array of participatory experiential exercises to reach men (and their partners), exploring gender socialization and its impact on HIV prevention and care. Piloted in Ethiopia, Namibia, South Africa and Tanzania, the manual is designed to assist master trainers in developing curricula to work with men and boys on gender, HIV and AIDS issues.

After a short background discussing the scientific rationale, chapter topics include: Gender and Power, Sexuality, Men and Health, Substance Use, Healthy Relationships, STI and HIV prevention, Living with HIV, Fatherhood, Violence and Making Change-taking Action. This educational manual allows men to question non-equitable views about masculinity and develop more positive attitudes to prevent unhealthy behaviors that put them and their partners and families at risk. It can also be used to train facilitators who will implement workshop activities with groups of men.

The activities are intended for use with men of all ages, although some adaptations might have to be made depending on the ages of the men and the country and community context. These activities can also be adapted for use with groups of men and women.

Source: EngenderHealth, Promundo

Date of Publication: October 15, 2021

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Working with a Creative Team

The C-Bulletins were developed by C-Change for communication practitioners who develop and adapt SBCC materials and activities for audiences with lower literacy skills. Each bulletin offers practical, how-to assistance and a list of additional resources.

This bulletin shares best practices for working with artists, graphic designers, and other creative professionals when developing social and behavior change communication (SBCC) materials and activities for all audiences, but especially for those with lower literacy skills.

  • What is a creative team and why use one?
  • How is a creative team hired?
  • What needs to be done at different stages in the materials development process?
  • What is the value added of working with a creative team?

Last modified: July 23, 2021

Language: English

Source: C-Change

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    mHealth Field Guide for Newborn Health

    This guide that explains how mHealth serves newborn health through referral and tracking of mothers and infants, decision support for CHWs, CHW supervision, scheduling and tracking postpartum and postnatal visits, and teaching and counseling for mothers and families.

    Mobile health, or “mHealth”, addresses the use of mobile and wireless technologies for providing health services and information. Newborn health can be supported by mHealth through referral and tracking of mothers and infants, decision support for CHW, CHW supervision, scheduling and tracking postpartum and postnatal visits, and teaching and counseling for mothers and families, among other uses.

    This guide includes case studies from Afghanistan, India, Malawi and Indonesia which are framed by a review of implementation issues and external resources for guidance.

    In particular, guidance is provided as to how mHealth can be used for newborn heatlh:

    • Referral and Tracking
    • Decision Support for CHW
    • CHW Supervision
    • Scheduling and Tracking Follow Up Visits
    • Teaching and Counseling

    Last modified: July 23, 2021

    Language: English

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      Guide to Prevention and Control of Covid-19 in Services of Health

      The Coronavirus topic was included in the Guide for the Prevention and Control of Covid-19 in Health Services of the Ministry of Public Health and Social Assistance of Guatemala.

      To facilitate dissemination, a brochure and poster were produced. In addition, workshops were held with staff from the MOH and the municipalities of Nebaj, Chajul, Nebaj and Sacapulas in Quiché.

      Source: Save The Children, Breakthrough ACTION /Johns Hopkins Center for Communication Programs, USAID, The Ministry of Public Health and Social Assistance, Guatemala

      Date of Publication: May 31, 2021

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      #infohygiene in Times of Pandemics

      This guidance was developed to remind journalists about getting the facts straight and offers several steps to ensure that the news that they report about a pandemic is accurate.

      Source: Internews

      Date of Publication: May 11, 2021

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      Considering Intersectionality in Africa

      This is an entire issue of the journal Agenda (Volume 31, Issue 1) which focuses on intersectionality and gender in Africa.

      The contributions in this issue consider the traction that the concept of intersectionality may have in scholarship in and about Africa. They variously address questions of how to do intersectional research; how intersectionality is lived and subjectively experienced; how intersectionality might inform our understanding of practices of resistance; how context – place and history – informs the identities at stake; how social status, such as marital status and profession, might be important identity categories in African contexts, independent of class; and how to expand an intersectional approach beyond social relations, to include intersections of social power with material resources such as water.

      The various works in this issue are examples of both the durability of the concept, and the possibilities and richness that African perspectives can offer scholarship on intersectionality. We are optimistic that future calls for contributions in this area will elicit inputs from a wider range of African contexts.

      Source: Agenda

      Date of Publication: April 7, 2021

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      Guide for the Preparation of a Risk Communication Strategy for COVID-19 Vaccines: A Resource for the Countries of the Americas

      This document was created to facilitate the preparation of a risk communication and community engagement strategy for vaccination against COVID-19.

      Its goal is to help to strengthen the communication and planning capacities of the ministries or secretariats of health and other agencies in charge of communicating about new COVID-19 vaccines in the Americas.

      It also includes a matrix for the preparation of a risk communication strategy for COVID-19 vaccines.

      Source: PAHO

      Date of Publication: March 18, 2021

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