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The life-course perspective, which provides the theoretical framework for JSI’s Beyond Survival series, emphasizes how events, conditions, and circumstances throughout a child’s life can greatly affect their outcomes later in life. Child health and well-being are recognized to be more than just biomedical health outcomes. As we understand it today, child health encompasses the lived…
The USAID Integrated Health System Strengthening and Service Delivery (IHSS-SD) Activity is supporting Pakistan’s Provincial Tuberculosis Control Program (PTP) to improve case detection for drug-resistant tuberculosis (DR-TB) and drug-sensitive TB (DS-TB) in three districts in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) (Charsadda, Lakki Marwat, and Swat) and two districts in Sindh (Qambar Shahdadkot, Larkana). Since January 2021, PTP…
Providing COVID-19 vaccines is a priority of the Government of Pakistan, however ensuring equitable access to the vaccines is a challenge because nearly 63% of Pakistan’s population lives in remote areas where access to healthcare is limited and large health disparities remain (World Bank, 2021). JSI, through the USAID-funded Integrated Health Systems Strengthening and Service…
The USAID Transform: Primary Health Care Activity has been operating in Jarso Woreda since its launch in 2017 and has contributed to its rise from a low- to a high-performing woreda. The Activity’s engagement includes various trainings and capacity enhancement activities, distribution of supplies, and the introduction and implementation of new initiatives, as well as…
Although starting fiscal year (FY) 2021 slowly due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the USAID eSCMIS project exceeded annual targets for implementation of key project activities such as electronic management information system (eLMIS) deployments, health facility staff training, transitioning project activities to MOH, and incorporating new system enhancements. This annual report shows progress for the FY…
The purpose of the landscape review of existing measurement approaches, frameworks, and metrics utilized to measure partnerships is to inform the selection of evidence-informed, appropriate, and feasible measurement indicators to monitor partnerships within the MOMENTUM consortium. More broadly, the analysis provides an overview of the current state of partnership measurement and commonly utilized approaches including,…
The purpose of this document is to provide guidance on the use of complexity-aware monitoring within the MOMENTUM projects. MOMENTUM—or Moving Integrated, Quality Maternal, Newborn, and Child Health Services, Voluntary Family Planning, and Reproductive Health Care (MNCH/FP/RH) to Scale—is the U.S. Agency for International Development’s (USAID’s) flagship, multi-award program to accelerate reductions in maternal, newborn,…
Complexity-aware monitoring complements traditional monitoring methods by taking into account the uncertain and changing nature of complex situations. Methods that are "complexity-aware" enable us to address the inherent complexity of development programs when there are many competing variables, environments are uncertain, the causal pathways to outcomes are unclear, and stakeholders bring diverse perspectives. Within the…
The movement to deliver health provider in-service training via distance learning has been underway for several years. This trend is a result of many factors, including expanded access to the internet and technology, concerns about taking staff (especially health facility staff) away from their jobs to attend inperson training, and the significant cost of face-to-face…
The movement to deliver health provider in-service training via distance learning has been underway for several years. It is a result of many factors, including expanded access to the internet and technology, concerns about taking staff (in particular, health facility staff) away from their jobs to attend in-person training, and the significant cost implications of…