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Research & Evidence

Expanding Contraceptive Method Choice With a Hormonal Intrauterine Device: Results From Mixed Methods Studies in Kenya and Zambia

Few women in low- and middle-income countries have access to the hormonal intrauterine device (IUD). Past research from a small number of facilities and the private sector suggests the hormonal IUD could be an important addition to the contraceptive method mix because it is the only long-acting method some women will adopt and users report high satisfaction and continuation. This article, published in Global Health: Science and Practice, and developed by staff from MOMENTUM Country and Global Leadership, aims to determine whether these promising results were applicable in public facilities in Kenya and Zambia.

Publication Date
April 2021
Research & Evidence

Opportunities and Challenges of Delivering Postabortion Care and Postpartum Family Planning During the COVID-19 Pandemic

This article, originally published in Global Health: Science and Practice, was developed to assist decision-makers in maximizing the provision of essential services without compromising access to quality family planning care and while minimizing the risk of COVID-19 transmission among clients, between clients, and health care workers.

Publication Date
March 2021
Training & Guidance

Adaptive Learning Guide: A Pathway to Stronger Collaboration, Learning, and Adapting

This guide provides information and resources to integrate adaptive learning into the design, implementation, and improvements of programs for maternal, newborn and child health services, voluntary family planning, and reproductive health care. It offers a conceptual introduction to adaptive learning, key steps to integrating into your work using links to existing resources and real-world examples of how adaptive learning can drive continuous learning and improvement in project work.

Publication Date
March 2021
Program & Technical Resources

Complexity-aware Monitoring Approaches: An Overview

This brief offers support to MOMENTUM partners who use complexity-aware monitoring approaches to enhance their monitoring and evaluation (M&E) and adaptive learning, thereby improving the likelihood of project success.

Publication Date
February 2021
Program & Technical Resources

The Power of Youth Voices: How Youth Are Holding Their Health Systems Accountable for Family Planning and Reproductive Health

MOMENTUM identified challenges to youth social accountability related to youth participation, health system responsiveness, and an over-emphasis on short-term project-based accountability compared with sustainable youth-led movement building. Promising practices for youth social accountability emerging from the landscape include capacity building for youth and adults, strengthening relationships between youth and health system actors, leveraging digital connectedness, and targeting accountability efforts at multiple levels of the health system. Through this landscape analysis, we found that youth social accountability implementation is racing ahead of documentation and that there are opportunities to improve youth social accountability practice in order to increase youth leadership and improve the responsiveness of health systems to the needs and rights of youth.

Publication Date
January 2021
About MOMENTUM

MOMENTUM Private Healthcare Delivery Fact Sheet

MOMENTUM Private Healthcare Delivery harnesses the potential of the private sector to expand access to and use of high-quality, evidence-based maternal, newborn, and child health services, voluntary family planning, and reproductive health care. The project collaborates with governments, local organizations, communities, and private providers in all their forms—including private clinics, faith-based clinics, pharmacies, and drug shops—to generate market-based solutions that drive scale in service delivery and long-term sustainability of health coverage and outcomes.

Publication Date
January 2021
About MOMENTUM

MOMENTUM Integrated Health Resilience Fact Sheet

MOMENTUM Integrated Health Resilience works alongside local organizations, governments, and humanitarian and development partners in fragile settings to accelerate reductions in maternal, newborn, and child illness and death by increasing the capacity of partner country institutions and local organizations—including new and underutilized partners—to introduce, deliver, scale up, and sustain the use of evidence-based, quality maternal, newborn and child health services, voluntary family planning, and reproductive health care.

Publication Date
January 2021
Research & Evidence

Effects of COVID-19 on Essential MNCHN/FP/RH Care and the Strategies and Adaptations Emerging in Response: Rapid Evidence Summary

This rapid evidence summary reviews emerging evidence of the effects of COVID-19 on provision and demand of essential maternal, newborn, and child health and nutrition, family planning, and reproductive health (MNCHN/FP/RH) care, the strategies and adaptations emerging in response, and their effects. The accompanying policy brief offers recommendations for MOMENTUM awards and USAID Missions to maximize the impact of response efforts and strengthen the evidence base to inform current and future efforts. In addition, the annotated bibliography summarizes findings from each of the evidence summary's resources.

Publication Date
December 2020

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