Publication Date September 1, 2024 Research & Evidence

The Humanitarian-Development-Peace Nexus: A Cross-Country Case Study Brief on Mali and South Sudan

Drawing from the case studies developed for Mali and South Sudan, this brief aims to synthesize key findings, commonalities, and differences in each context as it pertains to the humanitarian-development-peace nexus (HDpN) and applications to family planning, reproductive health and maternal, newborn, and child health (FP/RH/MNCH) interventions. These themes were drawn from the original HDN conceptual framework developed for MIHR by the Johns Hopkins Center for Humanitarian Health. Both Mali and South Sudan are deeply complex and fragile environments, with the caveat that such fragility is not uniform across each country. Significant themes are outlined below and summarized in a comparative table of findings for each country drawing from both the conceptual framework and the WHO Health System Building Blocks.

Publication Date August 1, 2024 Program & Technical Resources

USAID Immunization Partners’ Meeting Report

In alignment with the Immunization Agenda 2030, USAID remains committed to advancing equitable immunization to save lives and protect children and communities from outbreaks of vaccine-preventable diseases through a variety of approaches and projects. In March 2024, USAID held a meeting that convened USAID Missions, implementing partners, and external stakeholders in Washington, D.C., to harness the power of collective thinking in overcoming vaccination barriers at a critical moment for the global immunization community. Participants shared best practices and lessons learned from immunization programming successes, innovations, and challenges. This report summarizes meeting’s goals, sessions, and findings. The report also highlights what pivots are needed in the future for stronger, more resilient immunization programs.

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

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 June 1, 2024 Webinars

Assessing and Improving the Quality of Health Care and Systems at the Healthcare Facility and Beyond: Experience from the WHO Western Pacific Region

In July 2023, MOMENTUM's ME/IL Working Group facilitated a conversation about the challenges and lessons learned from applying effective coverage to monitor quality service delivery and use data for service improvements. On June 5, 2024, the working group held a follow-on webinar where Dr. Shogo Kubota shared progress made on the World Health Organization Regional Office for the Western Pacific (WHO WPRO)’s approach and examples from countries in the region in assessing and improving quality of health care and systems while strengthening Health Information Systems for monitoring healthcare quality.

Publication Date April 1, 2024 Program & Technical Resources

Recommendations for Governments To Maintain Continuous Family Planning Services During Shocks and Stressors

People need continuous access to family planning (FP) services as an essential component of SRH care to prevent unintended pregnancy. As stewards of their national health programs, governments must lead the way on advancing policies, programs, and financing that build resilient health systems and enable continuous access to health services across shocks and stressors. This brief provides recommendations for governments to improve preparedness to provide continuous FP services, build resilient health systems that can withstand and adapt to crises, and meet FP needs during crises and stable times alike. This brief is co-branded with the Women's Refugee Commission, IAWG, FP2030, USAID, MOMENTUM Integrated Health Resilience, and PROPEL Adapt.

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 March 6, 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.