Publication Date August 1, 2024 Webinars

Strengthening Analysis and Use of Routine Facility Data for Maternal, Newborn, Child and Adolescent Health Webinar Series

Routine health facility data helps decision-makers better understand facilities’ service readiness, utilization, and quality, enabling evidence-based policy and resource decisions. MOMENTUM’s “Strengthening Analysis and Use of Routine Facility Data for Maternal, Newborn, Child and Adolescent Health” webinar series is a “training of trainers” for monitoring, evaluation, and learning professionals working with MOMENTUM, USAID, and other partners.

Publication Date July 1, 2024 Webinars

Navigating Complexity Aware Monitoring: Real World Applications of Key Resources and Approaches

On July 31, 2024, MOMENTUM held a webinar exploring the Complexity-Aware Monitoring (CAM) Guide, one of the most downloaded resources on the MOMENTUM website. Participants learned about innovative monitoring approaches designed to address the unpredictable and dynamic nature of complex situations common in global health and development challenges. Experts from the MOMENTUM project and the CHISU program guided attendees through real-world examples, offering valuable insights on why, when, and how to use CAM approaches, along with practical advice for implementing them in their own work. Following presentations, participants had the opportunity to engage with experts during a Q&A session.

Publication Date July 1, 2024 Webinars

Improving Childbirth Outcomes by Optimizing the Use of Uterotonics: Sharing Learning and Tools

On July 25, 2024, MOMENTUM held a webinar exploring strategies, efforts and tools related to optimizing uterotonic use to improve childbirth outcomes. Presentations explored uterotonic use for labor induction and augmentation, with a focus on practices in India and South Asia, and new efforts to prevent postpartum hemorrhage, including findings from a global survey of national programs and a proposed evaluation strategy related to heat-stable carbetocin for Madagascar. Following presentations, participants had the opportunity to engage with experts during a Q&A session.

Publication Date July 1, 2024 Webinars

Shocks, Stresses, and Health Outcomes: The Role of Promising Health Resilience Strategies in Fragile Settings

On July 23, 2024, MOMENTUM Integrated Health Resilience hosted a webinar synthesizing academic and expert assessments of health resilience at the last mile to understand: what is meant by the health resilience and how it differs from overall resilience; ongoing efforts to strengthen resilience at district, community, and household levels; and opportunities and challenges to scaling up efforts to strengthen health resilience at the last mile. Then, MOMENTUM Integrated Health Resilience described how it is integrating health resilience capacity strengthening activities into public health programming.

Publication Date July 1, 2024 Research & Evidence

Nutrition Care and Services for Adolescent Pregnant Mothers

This landscape analysis from MOMENTUM Country and Global Leadership identifies nutrition counseling and services for pregnant adolescents, highlights select national nutrition policies and relevant formative research, and shares program innovations and experiences regarding nutrition specific to pregnant and lactating adolescent women (PLAW). Recommendations based on the findings of this analysis include further global action to harmonize definitions of adolescence, defining adolescent nutrition targets, and disaggregating data to better track the nutrition situation for PLAW.

Publication Date July 1, 2024 Program & Technical Resources

Strengthening the Family Planning Component of Maternal Health Care: A New Call to Action to Seize the Opportunity Provided by Universal Health Coverage and Primary Healthcare Frameworks

Postpartum family planning (PPFP) and postabortion family planning (PAFP) are recognized as high-impact, evidence-based interventions that can reduce maternal and child mortality and morbidity, respond to unmet need for voluntary contraception, and accelerate progress toward the Sustainable Development Goals. Although there has been progress over time and some notable success, efforts in scaling up PPFP and PAFP have been uneven, as the result of a variety of continuing barriers. Scaling up PPFP and PAFP requires stronger health system stewardship, community and private sector engagement, measurement, and financing. Maternal health leadership is also essential.

Publication Date July 1, 2024 Program & Technical Resources

Counseling, Informed Consent, and Debriefing for Cesarean Section in Nigeria

Counseling, informed consent, and debriefing (CCD) are crucial for respectful maternity care (RMC) and medical ethics. Despite the prevalence of cesarean sections worldwide, ensuring RMC remains vital, especially in surgical maternity care. The MOMENTUM Safe Surgery in Family Planning and Obstetrics project explored CCD attitudes, preferences, and practices in emergency and non-emergency obstetric care through a mixed methods study in four health facilities across Ebonyi and Sokoto States, Nigeria, from November 2022 to March 2023. This fact sheet summarizes key findings and recommendations.

Publication Date July 1, 2024 Program & Technical Resources

A Call to Action – Postpartum and Postabortion Family Planning: High-Impact Practices That Must Be Scaled up Through Universal Health Coverage and Primary Health Care Frameworks

Universal Health Coverage (UHC) and Primary Health Care (PHC) frameworks provide unique opportunities to advance scale-up of postpartum and postabortion family planning (PPFP and PAFP), interventions which are crucial in reducing unmet need for contraception and have proven impacts on maternal, newborn, and child survival and wellbeing. This Call to Action urges all stakeholders to champion five priority actions to support scaling up PPFP and PPFP in the UHC and PHC contexts.

Publication Date July 1, 2024 Program & Technical Resources

Applying a Holistic Approach to Fistula Care in Nigeria

The MOMENTUM Safe Surgery in Family Planning and Obstetrics project supports fistula prevention by enhancing provider capacity for high-quality obstetric surgeries, introducing quality improvement in obstetric care, and training primary health care workers and nurses in preventive catheterization for prolonged or obstructed labor management. In Nigeria, treatment involves surgical repair or non-surgical intervention (catheterization) at health facilities like National Obstetric Fistula Centers (NOFICs) or state-level vesicovaginal fistula (VVF) centers, or through organized surgical campaigns. A holistic fistula care approach addresses patients’ needs from prevention to rehabilitation and reintegration, ensuring they can access necessary services.

Publication Date July 1, 2024 Webinars

Strengthening FP and SRH Emergency Preparedness and Response (EPR) – Insights and Dialogue on FP2030 EPR Commitments

On July 9, 2024, MOMENTUM Integrated Health Resilience, in collaboration with PROPEL Adapt and FP2030, hosted a webinar part of a series related to emergency preparedness and resilience for family planning and reproductive health. FP2030 has invested in Emergency Preparedness and Response as a key strategy to strengthen resilience of FP services and save lives during shocks and stressors to healthcare systems or societies at large. This webinar provided a unique learning and exchange opportunity to explore how EPR for FP/SRH can be operationalized and learn from countries about concrete strategies, initiatives, and policies they have implemented to secure continuous access to FP and SRH during crisis. The session included a dialogue with partners from different regions and facing different contexts from Bangladesh, Burkina Faso, and Ethiopia.