Publication Date September 1, 2024 Research & Evidence

Perinatal Mental Health Consequences of Stillbirth and Potential Interventions: Summary of Evidence From Low- And Middle-Income Countries

Worldwide, around two million women experience stillbirth each year. Most of these deaths are preventable. Action to improve timely, equitable access to high-quality care is urgently needed to prevent these deaths but must be coupled with action to improve the supportive care that bereaved women receive to reduce psychological morbidity. This document provides a summary of the available evidence and research gaps regarding the impact of stillbirth on perinatal mental health in low- and middle-income countries and identifies potential interventions to mitigate these where the burden is highest.

Publication Date September 1, 2024 Research & Evidence

The Humanitarian-Development-Peace Nexus: A Cross-Country Case Study Brief on Mali and South Sudan

Drawing from the case studies developed for Mali and South Sudan, this brief aims to synthesize key findings, commonalities, and differences in each context as it pertains to the humanitarian-development-peace nexus (HDpN) and applications to family planning, reproductive health and maternal, newborn, and child health (FP/RH/MNCH) interventions. These themes were drawn from the original HDN conceptual framework developed for MIHR by the Johns Hopkins Center for Humanitarian Health. Both Mali and South Sudan are deeply complex and fragile environments, with the caveat that such fragility is not uniform across each country. Significant themes are outlined below and summarized in a comparative table of findings for each country drawing from both the conceptual framework and the WHO Health System Building Blocks.

Publication Date September 1, 2024 Webinars

Accélérer l’élan en faveur de la santé des enfants

Lors de l'Assemblée mondiale de la santé en mai, la résolution 11.7 nouvellement adoptée a réaffirmé l'engagement mondial à atteindre les objectifs en matière de santé maternelle et infantile. Le 16 septembre 2024, MOMENTUM et la Child Health Task Force (CHTF) ont uni leurs forces pour un événement en direct afin de maintenir l'élan en faveur de la santé infantile. Lors de cet événement, des défenseurs et des responsables de la mise en œuvre ont partagé leurs points de vue sur ce qu'il faut faire pour améliorer la santé des enfants.

Publication Date September 1, 2024 Webinars

Accelerating Momentum for Child Health Live Event

At the World Health Assembly in May, the newly passed Resolution 11.7 reaffirmed a global commitment to achieving maternal and child health goals. On September 16, 2024, MOMENTUM and the Child Health Task Force (CHTF) joined forces for a live event to keep up the momentum for child health. At the event, advocates and implementers shared their perspectives on what it takes to improve child health.

Publication Date September 1, 2024 Program & Technical Resources

Enhancing Quality of Care and Client Experience Through Client Feedback

The client feedback mechanism is a novel approach used by MOMENTUM Private Healthcare Delivery Nepal to help private providers enhance quality of care and client-centered services. The brief describes the client feedback mechanism and results of its use with private service delivery points in Karnali and Madhesh provinces of Nepal from 2021-2023.

Publication Date September 1, 2024 Research & Evidence

Private Sector Engagement in Nutrition

As part of its efforts to build cross-sector partnerships for nutrition, MOMENTUM Country and Global Leadership conducted a global nutrition-focused private sector engagement assessment, comprised of a landscape overview and business case, to inform both future country programming and global efforts. The landscape overview provides a framework of in-scope nutrition interventions and an overview of gaps in nutrition outcomes and current programming, and details the landscape of private sector engagement modalities as well as emerging practices for these modalities. The business case development report contains findings from a prioritization of private sector engagement modalities and business cases for five priority modalities, which may be explored in future programming.

Publication Date September 1, 2024 Research & Evidence

Capacity Strengthening for Youth-Led Organizations

MOMENTUM Country and Global Leadership worked with eight African youth-led organizations (YLO) to consolidate learning and co-create guidance on the organizational, technical, and network capacity-strengthening needs of YLOs. Through this effort, MOMENTUM supported YLOs to lead the development of the following resources:

Publication Date September 1, 2024 Training & Guidance

2024 Postabortion Care Curriculum

Postabortion care (PAC) is a package of lifesaving interventions that combines maternal healthcare, including emergency treatment for complications of induced or spontaneous abortion, with voluntary contraceptive counseling and service delivery before a PAC client is discharged from a facility. When PAC is accessible, affordable, of high-quality, and performed by capable healthcare providers, it can prevent maternal deaths and disabilities and improve access to contraception.

Publication Date September 1, 2024 Research & Evidence

Baseline Recurrent Monitoring System for Health in Eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo

This baseline report establishes a benchmark for follow-up rounds of a recurrent monitoring system (RMS) taking place in North Kivu Province, Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). An RMS is a survey and analysis method that uses panel data from the same households over several timepoints to capture real-time or near real-time information on shocks, capacities, and health and well-being outcomes. This report covers an RMS that is a part of work done by MOMENTUM Integrated Health Resilience, which seeks to assess the impact of shocks on health and health resilience capacities, as measured by individual and household knowledge, skills, behaviors, assets, social capital, and coping strategies related to voluntary family planning and reproductive health; maternal, newborn, and child health; and nutrition.

Publication Date September 1, 2024 Program & Technical Resources

Performance Mapping and Improvement System (PERFORM)

PERFORM is an easy-to-use, systems-oriented tool based on MOMENTUM Knowledge Accelerator’s Enhanced Organizational Capacity Framework that assists partners and program implementers in identifying needed performance improvement course corrections in a timely manner. PERFORM offers a comprehensive suite of performance enhancement tools and processes that instills a deeper understanding of performance improvement and a discipline of reflection and learning within an organization. PERFORM can advance localization through flexible, locally driven processes that yield validated measurement results and strengthen skills for internal analysis and self-learning. The system’s framework and monitoring approach, through short-term cycles, can be applied on its own or in combination with components of other assessment tools and monitoring processes. Further, PERFORM can yield measurable results for reporting on USAID’s CBLD-9 local capacity indicator and can contribute to the 10 best practices in USAID’s locally led programs indicator.