Publication Date December 1, 2022 Program & Technical Resources

Country Program in Review: Vietnam

As MOMENTUM Routine Immunization Transformation and Equity’s project in Vietnam comes to an end, we look back on all the successes, challenges, and lessons learned that the project had in reaching older people, disabled, and geographically hard-to-reach populations. To learn more about the program in Vietnam, which was conducted from November 2021 to September 2022, download the country program in review here.

Publication Date December 1, 2022 Program & Technical Resources

A Shared Vision for Improving Perinatal Mental Health in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: A Theory of Change and Prioritized Implementation Research Questions

This global perinatal mental health (PMH) Theory of Change offers a common framework that can guide global PMH thinking, investments, and programming to improve countries’ progress towards widely accessible, high-quality provision of PMH care services. The co-creation of these guiding documents was a critical step in fostering a global community working collaboratively towards a shared vision of better PMH globally.

Publication Date November 1, 2022 Program & Technical Resources

Addressing Insufficient Operational Funding to Reach Zero-Dose Children and Missed Communities

Reaching children and communities missing out on immunization, and then ensuring newly reached children are fully vaccinated, requires national immunization programs to develop and implement context specific strategies to overcome entrenched obstacles related to access and quality. Learn more about key entrenched obstacles to reaching zero-dose children and missed communities with routine immunization services and strategies to reach specific hard-to-reach and vulnerable populations in our latest brief, produced by the MOMENTUM Routine Immunization Transformation and Equity project.

Publication Date November 1, 2022 Research & Evidence

Knowledge and Use of the World Health Organization Medical Eligibility Criteria For Contraceptive Use Among Family Planning Professionals in Low-Resource Settings

Not all frontline health workers in low-resource settings have been exposed to tools that help ensure client safety in family planning, including the World Health Organization (WHO) medical eligibility criteria MOMENTUM Country and Global Leadership staff devised an online survey to better understand how aware technical assistance providers, trainers, educators, and professional association members globally are of these tools and how they use them in their day-to-day clinical, training or mentorship practices. This brief outlines the results of this survey and the resulting recommendations.

Publication Date November 1, 2022 Program & Technical Resources

Context Assessment Evaluation Report Deck

This report summarizes the findings from an evaluation of a pilot of the Context Assessment Toolkit, originally developed by Ariadne Labs, that took place over the course of 2021 and 2022 in Indonesia and Ethiopia. The Context Assessment Toolkit aims to improve the acceptance and adoption of practice improvements in health facilities.

Publication Date November 1, 2022 Program & Technical Resources

Context Assessment Evaluation Brief

This brief summarizes the findings from the pilot of the Context Assessment Toolkit, originally developed by Ariadne Labs, which took place in 2021 and 2022 in Indonesia and Ethiopia. The toolkit aims to help implementing organizations improve the acceptance and adoption of practice improvements in health facilities.

Publication Date October 1, 2022 About MOMENTUM

MOMENTUM 2022 Progress Report

During the past year, MOMENTUM has partnered with communities, governments, and private sector actors to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic; improve the quality, equity, and coverage of maternal, newborn, and child health and nutrition (MNCHN), family planning (FP), and reproductive health (RH) services; advance sustainable development and local voices; learn and adapt across contexts to achieve health objectives; and amplify country and global leadership. Check out our 2022 Progres Report to learn more about what we're doing to provide women, children, families, and communities with equal access to quality health care.

Publication Date October 1, 2022 Program & Technical Resources

Rapid Review: COVID-19 Vaccine Rollout Service Delivery and Integration

A systematic review of COVID-19 vaccine roll-out experiences and lessons learned is being undertaken by the World Health Organization, MOMENTUM Country and Global Leadership, and COVID GAP to produce learnings for program audiences at all levels. This slide deck is the first in a series of multiple rapid review products, highlighting learning, best practices, and recommendations for one of the eight selected themes.

Publication Date October 1, 2022 Program & Technical Resources

Is Your Health System Adolescent- And Gender-Responsive? A Participatory Tool for Analysis and Action Planning

Adolescent-responsive health systems intentionally transition the emphasis from creating separate adolescent-friendly spaces towards ensuring that all health services are responsive to the needs and rights of adolescents by incorporating adolescent-friendly elements that have demonstrated effectiveness into the health system. MOMENTUM Country and Global Leadership developed an assessment tool to enable ministries of health (MOHs), civil society, and other stakeholders to assess whether and how the health system currently responds to the needs and rights of adolescents, including how the system acknowledges and addresses gender barriers and opportunities that influence adolescents’ receipt of quality care. This tool can be used to inform work plans, national priority setting, and budgeting, as well as to measure and monitor a health system’s progress in meeting the needs and rights of adolescents of all genders over time.

Publication Date October 1, 2022 Program & Technical Resources

Key Points for Considering Adoption of the WHO Labour Care Guide: Policy Brief

This policy brief from MOMENTUM Country and Global Leadership and the World Health Organization provides maternal and newborn health stakeholders and decision-makers with an overview of the WHO Labor Care Guide (LCG). This includes its guiding principles, key advantages of making the shift from the WHO partograph to the WHO LCG, and what is required to ensure an enabling environment that will facilitate a sustainable introduction of the WHO LCG.