Publication Date March 1, 2023 Program & Technical Resources

Context Assessment Toolkit & Guide to Implementation Bundle

The Context Assessment Toolkit ('CA Toolkit') bundle includes tools and resources that can help improve the success of practice changes in health care by helping project implementers and facility leaders better understand the health care facility contexts in which they are implementing activities to improve quality of care. The Context Assessment Toolkit itself focuses on aspects of the facility that can affect implementation of a practice change, rather than a facility's ability to provide care. In addition to an implementation guide, the toolkit includes four distinct tools that are meant to be used with health facility staff: Pre-Implementation Survey; Progress Survey; Context Conversation Guides; and an Implementation Pulse Check. This bundle of resources also includes additional implementation resources, such as orientation slide decks, translation resources, and results interpretation guides. 

Publication Date March 1, 2023 Research & Evidence

Down But Not Out: Vasectomy Is Faring Poorly Almost Everywhere—We Can Do Better To Make It A True Method Option

This article, originally published in Global Health Science and Practice, draws attention to surprisingly low (and declining) global vasectomy rates and discusses the current state of low demand and low prioritization for this family planning method. The review and analysis described in the article were supported by MOMENTUM Safe Surgery in Family Planning and Obstetrics.

Publication Date February 1, 2023 Program & Technical Resources

Scaling up Effective Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene Services through Faith-Based Health Care Networks

In 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic shocked health systems, demanding the urgent identification and prioritization of immediate health care facility needs. Beginning in August 2020, USAID’s MOMENTUM Country and Global Leadership project implemented WASH improvements in 199 HCFs in Bangladesh, Ghana, India, Sierra Leone, and Uganda, including 44 faith-based facilities in Ghana, Sierra Leone, and Uganda. This brief distills learnings of faith-based partners, supports faith-based networks to take WASH activities to scale, and suggests ways to achieve scaling through limited, medium-level, and significant investments.

Publication Date February 1, 2023 Program & Technical Resources

Integrated Management of Childhood Illness in Sierra Leone: Successes, Challenges, and Opportunities

In 2022, MOMENTUM Country and Global Leadership undertook several country-based qualitative assessments of the successes of, challenges to, and opportunities for effective implementation of Integrated Management of Childhood Illness (IMCI). This Sierra Leone report captures the results and analysis from 18 interviews with Ministry of Health and Sanitation staff at the national, district, and facility levels.  The report breaks down the findings and recommendations across six key program areas: coordination and management, training, supervision, motivation, referrals, and supplies and equipment.

Publication Date February 1, 2023 Research & Evidence

Primary Health Care Integration Landscape Analysis: Literature Review Findings

To fill the knowledge gaps about what lessons have been learned about integration of primary health care (PHC) services in low- and middle-income countries and inform current and future efforts to improve the integration of PHC and immunization services, MOMENTUM Country and Global Leadership conducted this literature review to synthesize what is known about the level of implementation of immunization and PHC service integration in LMICs, identify policy and performance gaps in integration efforts, describe impediments and enablers of integration, and the solutions to address the main challenges.

Publication Date February 1, 2023 Program & Technical Resources

Promoting Vaccination: A Toolkit for Collaborating with Faith Communities

This toolkit is designed to equip faith actors and related stakeholders—such as Ministries of Health, medical and scientific bodies, and non-profit organizations that partner with or work alongside faith actors—with the information and tools needed to raise awareness, reduce misinformation, and address barriers that prevent faith communities in particular from engaging in vaccination. It includes information on theological dimensions of vaccination, holding discussions on vaccination, messaging on social media, holding inter-faith discussion forums on vaccine promotion, organizing harmonized inter-faith vaccine campaigns, and engaging with faith-based scientific technical bodies. Ultimately, this toolkit is intended to promote innovative partnerships that drive vaccine acceptance and uptake and to inspire increased strategic discussion and investment among stakeholders in the vaccine space.

Publication Date February 1, 2023 Program & Technical Resources

How Data Systems Can Help Reach Zero-dose and Under-immunized Children

This brief is for government decision-makers, funders, and partners who are involved in advancing health information systems and data tools for identifying, reaching, and monitoring zero-dose and under-immunized children. It highlights findings and recommendations from the Landscape Analysis of Health Information Systems and Data Tools for Identifying, Reaching, and Monitoring Zero-Dose and Under-immunized Children.

Publication Date January 1, 2023 Program & Technical Resources

Training Resource Package for Family Planning

This updated Training Resource Package for Family Planning (TRP) offers revamped curriculum components and tools for trainers to design, implement, and evaluate family planning and reproductive health training.

Publication Date January 1, 2023 Program & Technical Resources

Reaching Zero-Dose Children: Insights from MOMENTUM

Focused on generating learning to inform action, engaging new partners, and addressing needs in fragile settings, this program brief provides insights from four MOMENTUM projects on identifying and reaching zero-dose children. Those funding, overseeing, or carrying out immunization programs may find this information useful to guide their own implementation or adaptation.

Publication Date January 1, 2023 Program & Technical Resources

Improving Facility Readiness in Water Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) And Infection Prevention and Control (IPC) In India

In 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic shocked health systems, demanding the urgent identification and prioritization of immediate healthcare facility needs. Beginning in August 2020, USAID’s MOMENTUM Country and Global Leadership provided rapid technical and capacity development assistance to local health networks in India and four other countries to improve facility readiness in water sanitation and hygiene (WASH) and infection prevention and control (IPC). This package of materials details the impact and outcomes of this work, as well as lessons learned to inform future WASH and IPC efforts in healthcare facilities and quality improvement programming.