Publication Date April 1, 2024 Research & Evidence

Beyond Constructs and Principles: Addressing Gender-Related Barriers to High, Equitable Immunization Coverage

This article was published in the Frontiers in Global Women's Health journal in April 2023. The article discusses how USAID's MOMENTUM Routine Immunization Transformation and Equity project recognized the need to mainstream gender into its global and country level work, incorporating gender considerations into all phases of the program cycle, from assessment to activity design, strategic communications, monitoring, evaluation, and continuous learning. The authors describe approaches the project has applied to build capacity of its own global and country level staff to both recognize the gender dimensions inherent in common obstacles to immunization and ways to address them.

Publication Date March 1, 2024 Webinars

Implementation Considerations of New WHO Recommendations for Postpartum Hemorrhage (PPH)

On 6 March 2024, the Postpartum Hemorhage (PPH) Community of Practice hosted a webinar with the WHO to share the latest recommendations, released December 2023, on the assessment of postpartum blood loss and use of a treatment bundle for PPH. Experts working to implement these guidelines joined the webinar to share their implementation challenges and solutions.

Publication Date March 1, 2024 Program & Technical Resources

Furthering a Movement: The Perinatal Mental Health Community of Practice

The Perinatal Mental Health (PMH) Community of Practice (CoP) is a global collaborative platform for experts and practitioners working in maternal and newborn health, mental health, and related fields. As an inclusive environment for members to collaborate, the PMH CoP will connect individuals interested in PMH, empower them to collaborate to address the challenges and questions surrounding global PMH, and disseminate the latest information about PMH. This briefer shares more about the purpose and structure of the CoP as well as how to join this exciting community. The PMH CoP is supported by MOMENTUM Country and Global leadership.

Publication Date November 1, 2023 Program & Technical Resources

Family Planning (FP) Resilience Checklist

The Family Planning (FP) Resilience Checklist is an Excel-based tool to assess the extent to which voluntary family planning efforts, particularly in fragile settings, are integrating interventions to strengthen resilience of individual, couples, communities, and facilities to shocks and stresses, with the aim of scaling and sustaining demand, access, and use of family planning.  

Publication Date November 1, 2023 Program & Technical Resources

COVID-19 Vaccination Program in Review: Vietnam

As MOMENTUM Routine Immunization Transformation and Equity’s COVID-19 vaccination program in Vietnamcomes to an end, we look back on the successes, challenges, and lessons learned that the project had in reaching underserved and priority populations, strengthening health systems management, and improving the health workforce. Download this report to learn more about the COVID-19 vaccination program in Vietnam, which was conducted from November 2021–September 2022, and March 2023–September 2023. 

Publication Date September 1, 2023 Program & Technical Resources

USAID COVID-19 Implementing Partners Forum Mini-Conference Report

The USAID COVID-19 Vaccine Technical Assistance Implementing Partners (IPs) Forum is a platform for bi-directional sharing of updates, experiences, and ideas, aimed at enhancing the effectiveness of USAID's COVID-19 investments.  MOMENTUM Routine Immunization Transformation and Equity serves as the technical lead on the IP Forum secretariat working closely with USAID and Data.FI. Considering the evolving context of the pandemic and the approaching conclusion of the IP Forum, our final learning exchange was a hybrid mini-conference held on July 19, 2023, in Washington D.C. The theme of the mini-conference was "Sustaining and Applying COVID-19 Innovations for Primary Health Care and Routine Immunization". This theme examined the numerous lessons learned from diverse innovations developed during the pandemic, and how these valuable insights can be applied to shape our future and strengthen primary health care and routine immunization programs.

Publication Date August 1, 2023 Program & Technical Resources

COVID-19 Vaccination Program in Review: Ghana

As MOMENTUM Routine Immunization Transformation and Equity’s COVID-19 vaccination program in Ghana 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, strengthening health systems management, and improving the health workforce. To learn more about the COVID-19 vaccination program in Ghana, which was conducted from June 2021 to June 2023, download this country program in review.

Publication Date July 1, 2023 Webinars

Bi-Annual Meeting of the MIYCN-FP-Immunization Integration Community of Practice

The Maternal, Infant, and Young Child Nutrition (MIYCN), Family Planning, and Immunization Integration Community of Practice met on July 25, 2023, to explore the intersections of nutrition, family planning, and immunization at the community level and to discover ways to support community health workers (CHWs) to provide integrated care. Participants heard from community health workers about the leading issues they face and their priorities for providing integrated care.

Publication Date July 1, 2023 Webinars

Postpartum Hemorrhage Community of Practice: E-Motive Trial Webinar

On July 14, 2023, the MOMENTUM Country and Global Leadership-led Postpartum Hemorrhage (PPH) Community of Practice hosted a webinar to discuss the results of the E-MOTIVE trial. During this interactive webinar, participants learned more about the study, asked questions about E-MOTIVE implementation, and discussed how best the bundle might be used in countries around the globe.

Publication Date July 1, 2023 Webinars

What Is Needed to Scale Entrepreneur-Led Family Planning and Reproductive Health Innovations?

On July 11, 2023, MOMENTUM Country and Global Leadership held a webinar to discuss the launch of the Empowering FP/RH Innovations for Scale suite of resources. The webinar shared key insights and learnings from these tools and highlighted their practical application with case studies from Kenya, Rwanda, Nigeria and India.