Publication Date December 1, 2022 Program & Technical Resources

Implementation of the World Health Organization’s Task Sharing Guidelines for Long-Acting Reversible Contraceptives and Permanent Methods across MOMENTUM Safe Surgery in Family Planning and Obstetrics Countries: Desk Review

MOMENTUM Safe Surgery in Family Planning and Obstetrics conducted this desk review between June and November 2021 to determine the extent to which implementation countries had adopted and operationalized the WHO recommendations for task sharing to increase access to high-quality FP information and services. The assessment also aimed to identify key challenges, barriers, and opportunities related to effective implementation of the WHO task sharing guidelines. The review also included an assessment of national health systems documents and global evidence, including published and grey literature on task sharing.

Publication Date December 1, 2022 About MOMENTUM

Supporting COVID-19 Vaccination in the Kyrgyz Republic

This brief summarizes how the MOMENTUM Routine Immunization Transformation and Equity project is supporting COVID-19 vaccination in the Kyrgyz Republic.

Publication Date December 1, 2022 About MOMENTUM

Supporting COVID-19 Vaccination in India

This brief summarizes how the MOMENTUM Routine Immunization Transformation and Equity project is supporting COVID-19 immunization in India.

Publication Date December 1, 2022 About MOMENTUM

Supporting COVID-19 Immunization in Niger

This brief summarizes how the MOMENTUM Routine Immunization Transformation and Equity project is supporting COVID-19 immunization in Niger.

Publication Date December 1, 2022 About MOMENTUM

Strengthening COVID-19 Immunization in Mozambique

This brief summarizes how the MOMENTUM Routine Immunization Transformation and Equity project is supporting COVID-19 Immunization in Mozambique.

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.