We document and disseminate various results, trainings, and resources from our research, programs, and projects.
Aligning Systems for Health is an initiative supported by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation that focuses on identifying effective ways to align health care, public health, and social services to better meet the goals and needs of the people and communities they serve. This book encompasses the first two years of learning from this project….
Through its work to encourage urban planning structures, the USAID-funded Building Healthy Cities project (BHC) identified a major gap in multisector engagement relating to the private sector. While individual sectors have documented success with developing private-sector relationships, there is a gap in the knowledge base about how to develop private-sector relationships for urban health projects,…
This case study shows how cStock, a mobile solution used to report and resupply health commodities, developed by Kenya-based InSupply Health, can be useful in humanitarian and fragile settings. inSupply has implemented cStock across four of Kenya’s arid and semi-arid lands (ASAL), where the environment is challenging and populations are remote, hard to reach, and sometimes…
In collaboration with the Ethiopian Ministry of Health and EPI partners, JSI is excited to announce two news guidelines for implementation of the Reaching Every District (RED) strategy in Ethiopia. In 2018, Ethiopia introduced an adapted version of the RED approach with guidance specific to implementation in Ethiopia. As a complement to the Ethiopian RED…
In collaboration with the Ethiopian Ministry of Health and EPI partners, JSI is excited to announce two news guidelines for implementation of the Reaching Every District (RED) strategy in Ethiopia. In 2018, Ethiopia introduced an adapted version of the RED approach with guidance specific to implementation in Ethiopia. As a complement to the Ethiopian RED…
This Teachers Training Guidance was developed in partnership with the Madhya Pradesh Voluntary Health Association in support of the Health Promoting Schools initiative in Indore, India. A Health Promoting School is one that fosters health and learning by engaging health and education officials, teachers, teacher unions, students, parents, health providers, and community leaders in efforts…
By 2004, the Reaching Every District (RED) strategy became the approach used by most African countries to improve their routine immunization systems. However, many districts and health facilities faced challenges with implementation of of RED, finding the strategy difficult to fully operationalize. To address these challenges, JSI applied concepts and tools from the field of…
Resilience in an immunization system requires planning for both the sustainability of the program and the ability to quickly recover from adversity, through isolating and managing threats to limit their effect on the program. JSI developed a unique approach to help countries strengthen immunization programs, known as Reaching Every District using Quality Improvement (RED-QI). RED-QI…
While immunization programs usually receive funding from the national level to cover the costs of vaccines and related equipment, it is often political leaders and civil authorities (“non-health stakeholders”) at the district and community levels who decide on resource allocation to cover local operational costs. In Ethiopia and Uganda, JSI used the Reaching Every District…
In much of rural Madagascar, the lack of available and affordable transport hinders uptake of health services. In a country where over 60 percent of the population lives in rural areas, community health volunteers (CHV) have an essential role in health service delivery. In 2019, Madagascar had more than 35,000 CHVs serving 5,700 villages. CHVs…
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