Publication Date April 1, 2024 About MOMENTUM

Strengthening Routine Immunization and Polio Eradication in DRC

This one-pager brief summarizes how MOMENTUM Routine Immunization Transformation and Equity is supporting routine immunization capacity building, gender and equity, partnership strengthening, data quality and management, and polio eradication in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Publication Date April 1, 2024 About MOMENTUM

Strengthening COVID-19 Vaccination in DRC

This brief one-pager summarizes how MOMENTUM Routine Immunization Transformation and Equity supported COVID-19 vaccination planning and coordination, demand generation and community engagement, data quality and management, service delivery, and integration into routine immunization health services in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Publication Date March 1, 2024 About MOMENTUM

Strengthening Routine Immunization in Benin

This one-pager brief summarizes how MOMENTUM Routine Immunization Transformation and Equity is supporting routine immunization demand generation, capacity strengthening, supply chain, and data management in Benin.

Publication Date February 1, 2024 Webinars

Family Planning Measurement in Focus – Session 1: Family Planning Estimation Tool (FPET)

On February 27, 2024, MOMENTUM Knowledge Accelerator held a webinar providing an overview and demonstration of The Family Planning Estimation Tool (FPET), including how to conduct FPET runs, add new surveys, visualize results, and create ambitious but obtainable family planning goals. FPET allows users to produce annual estimates of contraceptive use, demand satisfied, and unmet need using all available survey data and service statistics. FPET is a country facing adaptation of the United Nation Population Division’s model used to calculate global estimates.

Publication Date January 1, 2024 About MOMENTUM

Strengthening COVID-19 Vaccination in Haiti

This one-pager brief summarizes how MOMENTUM Routine Immunization Transformation and Equity is supporting COVID-19 vaccination data management, demand generation, and integration into routine immunization health services in Haiti. 

Publication Date January 1, 2024 Program & Technical Resources

COVID-19 Vaccination Program in Review: Mali

As MOMENTUM Routine Immunization Transformation and Equity’s COVID-19 vaccination program in Mali comes to an end, this report looks back on the successes, challenges, and lessons learned that the project had in reaching underserved and priority populations and strengthening the health system. Download this report to learn more about the COVID-19 vaccination program in Mali, which was conducted from June 2022 to November 2023.

Publication Date January 1, 2024 About MOMENTUM

MOMENTUM Programs in West Africa: Regional Reference Brief

The West Africa Regional Reference Brief summarizes MOMENTUM’s programs and activities implemented in partner countries to improve equitable access to respectful quality maternal, newborn, and child health and nutrition, voluntary family planning, and reproductive health care for all individuals and communities. The brief will be updated periodically as project activities evolve throughout the life of the project.

Publication Date December 1, 2023 Research & Evidence

Learning From Health Systems Strengthening Responses to COVID-19

The global COVID-19 pandemic challenged health systems worldwide, examining their resilience in maintaining essential services while preventing and responding to COVID-19. MOMENTUM Knowledge Accelerator conducted a learning synthesis to understand the extent to which three MOMENTUM projects in India and Sierra Leone used health systems strengthening (HSS) approaches in their COVID-19 response activities. Furthermore, the work sought to distill factors that facilitated, or inhibited, the implementation and outcomes of HSS-oriented COVID-19 response activities. Lessons and recommendations can inform future approaches to integrating HSS in outbreak and pandemic responses.

Publication Date December 1, 2023 Program & Technical Resources

COVID-19 to Routine Immunization Information System Transferability Assessment (CRIISTA)

The COVID-19 pandemic and vaccine introduction led many countries to invest in new immunization information systems (IISs) to collect, manage, and use COVID-19 vaccination data. Many countries have recognized these investments as a potential opportunity for strengthening routine IISs. The COVID-19 to Routine Immunization Information System Transferability Assessment (CRIISTA) aims to facilitate a thorough process for collecting and reviewing relevant information to support decision-making around whether it is appropriate to scale a COVID-19 IIS, or parts of it, for use in routine immunization.

Publication Date October 1, 2023 Training & Guidance

The Baby-Friendly Hospital Initiative (BFHI) Checklist: Integrating BFHI into Maternal and Newborn Health Services and Quality of Care

The Baby-Friendly Hospital Initiative (BFHI) is a set of standards to protect, promote, and support optimal breastfeeding during the critical first hours and days while a mother-baby pair receives delivery and postnatal services in health facilities. This checklist, developed by MOMENTUM Country and Global Leadership, aims to provide health facilities and district managers with practical guidance to ensure the integration and institutionalization of the BFHI Ten Steps within routine antenatal care (ANC), intrapartum care and postnatal care (PNC).The checklist may also be used by health facility managers and health workers involved in maternal and newborn care and nutrition, including ministry of health sub-national and district health managers.