Publication Date April 1, 2022 Webinars

Seeing Old Problems Through a New Lens: Recognizing and Addressing Gender Barriers to Equitable Immunization

MOMENTUM Routine Immunization Transformation and Equity hosted a webinar to discuss gender-related barriers to immunization on Wednesday, April 27, 2022. The webinar shared key learnings about gender barriers and how they obstruct equitable access to immunization services throughout a person’s life. The webinar also included discussions about the growing global movement to strengthen country-level implementers’ capacity, commitment, and confidence to develop and implement strategies addressing gender-related barriers to immunization.

Publication Date April 1, 2022 Training & Guidance

Improving Postnatal Maternal Nutrition: How to use behavior profiles

This technical brief from MOMENTUM Country and Global Leadership explains how to customize and use postnatal maternal nutrition behavioral profiles on diet diversity and diet quantity to help program managers, researchers, and implementers translate nutrition guidance for women during the postnatal period into program actions that improve practices.

Publication Date March 1, 2022 Research & Evidence

Barriers and Enablers of IMCI Implementation: A Desk Review Report

This desk review by MOMENTUM Country and Global Leadership examines implementation barriers for the Integrated Management of Childhood Illness (IMCI) from a health systems perspective, summarizing common themes in the domains of human resources; medical technologies and supplies; health information systems; leadership and governance; and service delivery.

Publication Date March 1, 2022 Research & Evidence

Family Planning Costed Implementation Plan Resource Kit: What We Heard

Costed Implementations Plans (CIPs) are a critical tool for countries to transform ambitious family planning commitments, such as those made through FP2030 and the Ouagadougou Partnership, into concrete programs and policies. FP2030 and partners are revising the CIP Resource Kit, a package that provides standardized guidance and tools for countries to plan, develop, and execute a robust, actionable, and resourced strategy to achieve their family planning goals. Using a human-centered design process to gather in-country experience designing, implementing, and monitoring past CIPs, this report from MOMENTUM Country and Global Leadership shares suggestions to inform revisions to the CIP Resource Kit and strengthen the overall CIP model.

Publication Date March 1, 2022 Program & Technical Resources

Review of Integrated Community Case Management and Family Planning/Reproductive Health Training Curricula for Pharmacists and Drug Shop Owners

MOMENTUM Private Healthcare Delivery supports the scale-up of evidence-based approaches to improve the quality of integrated community case management (iCCM) and voluntary family planning/reproductive health (FP/RH) care offered through private pharmacies and drug shop vendors. MOMENTUM is developing a training curriculum and tools for cadres of private providers working in pharmacies and drug shops, as they are not often included in formal health system training for task-shared child health or FP services. As a first step in developing the curriculum, MOMENTUM undertook a review of materials from 11 existing iCCM and FP/RH curricula for lower-level providers. This review summarizes the findings from the curricula review and describes the process of the review. In addition to the report, MOMENTUM has also developed a Curricula Review Matrix which provides further details on the criteria used and each curriculum reviewed in the report. The Curricula Resources file includes all original training materials utilized in the MOMENTUM curricula review.

Publication Date February 1, 2022 Program & Technical Resources

The Humanitarian-Development Nexus: A Framework for Maternal, Newborn, and Child Health, Voluntary Family Planning, and Reproductive Health

The Humanitarian-Development Nexus marks a turning point in the understanding of humanitarian and development settings by recognizing that previous linear models are obsolete, and that a region or country does not transition from humanitarian to development aid. Drawing from frameworks on the nexus put forth by the United Nations and health system strengthening from WHO and USAID, MOMENTUM Integrated Health Resilience developed this conceptual framework to visualize health programming in the Humanitarian-Development Nexus.

Publication Date February 1, 2022 About MOMENTUM

MOMENTUM Presents Podcast, Episode Two, Innovating in a Pandemic: Gender and Youth Equity amid COVID-19

Listen to the second episode of the MOMENTUM Presents podcast series to hear Patricia Bah from Sierra Leone’s Ministry of Health and Sanitation and Marian Pleasant Kargbo, Sierra Leone’s Family Planning 2030 Youth Focal Person discuss what it takes to reach adolescents and youths with critical health services despite the incredible challenges of COVID-19.

Publication Date February 1, 2022 About MOMENTUM

MOMENTUM Theory of Change Video

The MOMENTUM Theory of Change describes how the various actions and interventions of the six MOMENTUM projects are anticipated to contribute to MOMENTUM’s overarching goal and intended intermediate outcomes and results. This fact sheet and video provide an overview of the Theory of Change and how it supports project design, implementation, and learning across all six MOMENTUM projects.

Publication Date February 1, 2022 Webinars

Maternal Mental Health and the Importance of Engaging Faith Actors

Mental health lacks proper attention in the health sector, both in funding and response, despite its high prevalence rate. The perinatal period is a particularly crucial time to address mental health concerns as it is associated with an elevated risk of mental disorders. Faith actors and faith-based organizations (FBOs) can make a difference in countries and on the global stage in vastly improving maternal mental health. On February 3, 2022, MOMENTUM Country and Global Leadership held a webinar sharing the results from a landscape assessment of faith actors and FBO involvement in maternal mental health. Speakers and participants discussed how to leverage the influence and reach of faith communities to help women facing mental health issues during the critical perinatal period. 

Publication Date January 1, 2022 Research & Evidence

Introducing the Hormonal IUD in Madagascar, Nigeria, and Zambia: Results from a Pilot Study

This study, published by BMC Reproductive Health, reflects the results of a USAID-funded pilot study on the introduction of the hormonal Intrauterine Device (IUD) in Nigeria, Madagascar, and Zambia. The study analyzed the introduction of the hormonal IUD from the perspective of the family planning user; it included favorable findings on user satisfaction and continuation rates as well as insightful information on demographic profiles of those who chose the method. Work completed by USAID's SIFPO2 project is also included in the study. MOMENTUM Private Healthcare Delivery is now taking this work forward by leveraging the findings from this study in Nigeria and Madagascar to scale up demand generation and training of private providers.