We document and disseminate various results, trainings, and resources from our research, programs, and projects.
The health needs of adolescents and youth remain consistently high in Madagascar because many young people cannot access complete and accurate health information, health education, or modern forms of contraception and preventive care. The country has a high adolescent fertility rate with 108 births per 1,000 women aged 15–19 compared to the global average of…
JSI Research & Training Institute, Inc. utilized the ECHO model in New Hampshire (NH) to address capacity needs among substance use disorder (SUD) treatment providers related to the American Society of Addiction Medicine (ASAM) Criteria. Project ECHO® (Extension for Community Healthcare Outcomes) is a guided-practice model developed by the University of New Mexico’s Health Sciences…
The family planning effort in Bangladesh is widely recognized as one of the world's most successful ones and a model for other countries to follow. For more than 20 years, USAID worked with John Snow, Inc., to improve the delivery of family planning supplies in Bangladesh through multiple, consecutive projects, focusing primarily on logistics, procurement,…
Karachi, the largest city in Pakistan, has the highest density of unimmunized (zero-dose) and under-immunized children. This paper highlights the unique process the Sindh Government, in collaboration with partners, undertook to develop strategies for addressing inequity in urban immunization services in Karachi in order to work toward achieving Universal Immunization Coverage. Authors: Iqbal Hossain, Tariq…
Health care costs can overwhelm households; close to 100 million people are pushed into poverty each year due to out-of-pocket health expenses. In Madagascar, where more than 70 percent of the population lives in rural areas and works in the informal sector, accessing health services and having readily available funds to pay for the services…
The government of Madagascar (GOM) has adopted FP as an important strategy to reduce maternal mortality and improve adolescent and youth health. The National Reproductive Health and Family Planning Law (2018) and the National Strategic Plan for Adolescent and Youth Reproductive Health (2017) address reproductive choice and the negative consequences of early childbearing, as do…
This report describes the background, methodology, and findings from the end of project evaluation of the impact of supply chain digitization interventions on the family planning supply chain in the My Choice districts in Indonesia, and provides related recommendations. The My Choice project has made a significant contribution to support supply chain (SC) system strengthening…
This is Madagascar's first monitoring and evaluation framework for Population, Health, and Environment (PHE) activities. The proposed monitoring and evaluation framework has data elements that include 20 indicators of different types. This list of indicators was developed and approved by four relevant Ministries, namely the Ministries of Public Health (MSANP), Environment and Sustainable Development (MEDD),…
My Village My Home (MVMH) is a community-level, offline tool that provides a visual depiction of immunization status of all infants born in a village, wherein the community as a whole can view and follow up immunization status of every infant in their village. The tool has led to increased community ownership and improved demand generation. and has improved…
This report describes a baseline project assessment of the state of the family planning supply chain in the My Choice project districts in Indonesia. The report highlights the capabilities, constraints, and challenges of the existing supply chain and provides related recommendations.
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