Publication Date August 1, 2022 Webinars

If You Build It, Will It Last? Introduction to Sustainable Digital Health Interventions on MOMENTUM

On August 17th, 2022, MOMENTUM hosted a webinar highlighting key global guidance documents that lay the foundation for sustainable digital health interventions and implementation, and shared how one MOMENTUM award has utilized these strategies. The overarching goal for employing these strategies is to reduce fragmented digital health systems in order to drive use of scalable and sustainable digital health solutions that can transform health systems and outcomes.

Publication Date August 1, 2022 Research & Evidence

Learning From the Past: The Role of Social and Behavior Change Programming in Public Health Emergencies

Behavioral responses to emerging infectious diseases (EIDs) are the first line of defense to mitigate their spread. This article, published in Global Health: Science and Practice, analyzes responses to EIDs to identify lessons for improving public health responses. These lessons relate to community engagement, trust through transparent risk communication, audience segmentation for tailored interventions, prioritizing behaviors, and strengthening political will. The authors, including staff from MOMENTUM Integrated Health Resilience, conclude with the need to engage social scientists, including social and behavior change experts, in the initial response to infectious disease outbreaks, to reduce mortality and improve efficiency in time-sensitive situations.

Publication Date July 1, 2022 Program & Technical Resources

Landscape Analysis: The Humanitarian-Development Nexus: A Framework for MNCH/FP/RH

There has been a tremendous shift in recent years in how we understand humanitarian and development settings, and in turn, how we frame interventions in such contexts. Notions of a humanitarian-development divide, gap, or continuum go back decades and are outdated, as they have never fully depicted the overlapping reality and needs of most contexts across the world. Though numerous approaches have been developed to date, a broader understanding and operationalization within the humanitarian-development nexus (HDN) remains necessary, specifically in the health sector. Examining each of these approaches provides a foundation for how these may be translated to the health sector using an HDN lens. This landscape analysis and framework reviews existing frameworks, explores the HDN from a health perspective, and introduces a framework for maternal, newborn, and child health, family planning, and reproductive health (MNCH/FP/RH) in the HDN.

Publication Date July 1, 2022 Training & Guidance

Maternal and Perinatal Death Surveillance and Response (MPDSR) Capacity Building Package

MOMENTUM Country and Global Leadership, the World Health Organization, UNFPA, and UNICEF have developed an integrated Maternal and Perinatal Death Surveillance and Response (MPDSR) Capacity Building Package that can be used to support country capacity for MPDSR through virtual means. Capacity building materials for both maternal and perinatal mortality surveillance have been combined into one package, which also includes updated guidance and COVID-19 modules.

Publication Date July 1, 2022 Webinars

Perception and Reality: Findings and Implications of a Study on Quality of Care in Family Planning

On July 19, 2022, MOMENTUM Private Healthcare Delivery held a webinar to discuss their analysis of Service Provision Assessment (SPA) surveys, comparing the quality of care for family planning (FP) services in both public and private health facilities across multiple countries. Both public and private health facilities play important roles in the provision of voluntary FP services. However, little is known about how and if quality of care may differ between these two sectors. This webinar shares the study findings and country examples on how quality of care may be measured differently and recommendations for improvement of services.

Publication Date July 1, 2022 Webinars

Improving Maternal and Infant Health: Adapting the MAMI Care Pathway in South Sudan

The Management of At-Risk Mothers and Infants (MAMI) Care Pathway (CP) is an intervention to improve the health of mothers and their infants. The current iteration of the Care Pathway, Version 3.0, was updated in 2021 and has been adapted to a number of contexts. MOMENTUM Integrated Health Resilience is working with the Government of South Sudan and other implementers to adapt and use the Care Pathway and to document lessons learned so that other countries can establish a process of their own for adapting this intervention, in particular to fragile contexts. In this webinar, we describe the Care Pathway, the process of adapting it in South Sudan, and the operations research we will conduct to better understand how the Care Pathway might be adapted in many different settings.

Publication Date June 1, 2022 Program & Technical Resources

People-centered Care Framework and Intersections with Respectful Maternity Care, Rights-based Care, and Nurturing Care

This graphic from MOMENTUM Country and Global Leadership illustrates how the broad framework of people-centered care aligns with related terminology used in distinct technical areas, such as reproductive, maternal, newborn, child, and adolescent health. Multiple global conversations are underway regarding the scope and definition of frameworks for people-centered care and respectful care. As USAID develops and evolves its respectful care strategy, this graphic will be modified to reflect updated understanding.

Publication Date June 1, 2022 Program & Technical Resources

Meaningful Adolescent and Youth Engagement and Partnership in Sexual and Reproductive Health Programming: A Strategic Planning Guide

High Impact Practices (HIPs) are a set of evidence-based family planning practices vetted by experts against specific criteria and documented in an easy-to-use format. MOMENTUM Country and Global Leadership supported the International Youth Alliance for Family Planning, a youth-led organization, to develop a HIPs Strategic Planning Guide intended to lead program managers, planners, and decision-makers through a strategic process to meaningfully and effectively engage and partner with adolescents, youth, and/or youth-led organizations on sexual and reproductive health programs and initiatives.

Publication Date June 1, 2022 Research & Evidence

An Exploratory Study of Client and Provider Experience and Perceptions of Facility-Based Childbirth Care in Quiché, Guatemala

Respectful maternity care (RMC) is fundamental to women’s and families’ experience of care and their decision about where to give birth. Studies from multiple countries describe the mistreatment of women during facility-based childbirth, though only a small number of studies from Guatemala have been published. This study published in BMC Health Services Research, which began under USAID's Maternal and Child Survival Program (MCSP), adds to the literature on women’s experience of institutional childbirth and factors that influence this experience by triangulating experience and perceptions of both women and health workers. This assessment highlights opportunities to address mistreatment of both women and health workers and to build on positive care attributes to strengthen RMC for all women.

Publication Date June 1, 2022 Research & Evidence

Effects of Local Faith-Actor Engagement in the Uptake and Coverage of Immunization in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: A Literature Review

This landscape review from MOMENTUM Country and Global Leadership, published in the Christian Journal for Global Health, found extensive evidence supporting the value of religious engagement for immunization promotion and acceptance in lower- and middle-income countries (LMICs). Yet rigorous evidence and specific approaches for engaging local faith actors to strengthen immunization uptake in LMICs are limited. As countries urgently work to expand access to COVID-19 vaccinations, this study advances understanding of how to more effectively engage local faith actors in promoting immunization campaigns and addressing vaccine hesitancy.