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Publication Date February 1, 2024 Research & Evidence

Risk Communication and Community Engagement Resources: A Landscape Analysis of Guidance and Training Materials Supporting Community Health Workers

Risk communication and community engagement is a health strategy and response that is vital for individual, family, and community uptake of essential public health services. This brief provides an overview of existing guidance and training material for community health workers focusing on risk communication and community engagement.

Publication Date December 1, 2023 Program & Technical Resources

Youth-Led Social Accountability for Health

This interactive report summarizes the activities, learnings, and impacts of a partnership between MOMENTUM Country and Global Leadership and two youth-led organizations (YLOs) to advance youth-led social accountability learning and practice. With MOMENTUM organizational and technical capacity development assistance, Youth Advocacy on Rights and Opportunities (YARO) in Ghana and Youth for Sustainable Development (YSD) in Kenya led social accountability activities to improve the quality of adolescent and youth sexual and reproductive health (AYSRH) services and to conduct learning exercises to contribute to the global evidence on youth-led social accountability.

Publication Date December 1, 2023 Program & Technical Resources

Learning from MOMENTUM: Community Engagement and Systems Strengthening Approaches to Addressing Gender-Based Violence

Published in recognition of the 2023 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence (GBV) campaign, this brief highlights six innovative approaches—related to community engagement and system strengthening—for addressing GBV. The case studies from three MOMENTUM projects offer practical insights for gender experts, practitioners, and advocates, particularly those working in GBV pre­vention and response, to apply and adapt in their own work.

Publication Date October 1, 2023 Program & Technical Resources

COVID-19 Vaccination Program in Review: Ethiopia

As MOMENTUM Routine Immunization Transformation and Equity’s COVID-19 vaccination program in Ethiopia comes 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 Ethiopia, which was conducted from July 2022 to June 2023.

Publication Date September 1, 2023 Program & Technical Resources

Strengthening Partnership with Faith Actors in Family Planning: A Strategic Planning Guide

High Impact Practices (HIPs) are a set of evidence-based family planning practices vetted by experts against specific criteria and documented in an easy-to-use format. MOMENTUM Country and Global Leadership supported Christian Connections for International Health, a faith-based organization to develop a HIPs Strategic Planning Guide intended to lead program managers, planners, and decision-makers through a strategic process to meaningfully and effectively engage and strengthen partnership with faith actors in family planning.

Publication Date September 1, 2023 Program & Technical Resources

Supply Chain Capacity Strengthening Program for Faith-based Drug Supply Organizations

In Cameroon, Kenya, Nigeria, Ghana, and Uganda, MOMENTUM Country and Global Leadership partnered with eight faith-based drug supply organizations to strengthen and reinforce their resiliency and improve the availability of high-quality and affordable family planning (FP) and maternal, newborn, and child health (MNCH) commodities. This report shares the result of these efforts, including more effective management and execution in procurement and supply planning and agility in mitigating disruptions from external forces, such as the effects of COVID-19.

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 June 1, 2023 Research & Evidence

Harnessing the Power of Collaboration to Expand the Coverage and Equity of COVID-19 Vaccinations in India: A Community Collaboration Model

MOMENTUM Routine Immunization Transformation and Equity implemented localization strategies through NGOs for community engagement in conjunction with government vaccination teams to universalize COVID-19 vaccination uptake up to the last mile in India. This journal article discusses the strategies and collaboration that resulted in reaching close to 50 million beneficiaries through messaging and facilitated the administration of more than 14 million vaccine doses, including 6.1 million doses for vulnerable and marginalized communities in 18 States and Union territories in India, along with suggesting implications for public health practice and research.

Publication Date March 1, 2023 Program & Technical Resources

The Role of Social Accountability in Improving Respectful Care

Respectful care is of increasing interest within reproductive, maternal, newborn, child, and adolescent health (RMNCAH) care. Concurrently, there has been a call for health systems to be accountable to the populations they serve for delivering quality care. This package of materials focuses on the role of social accountability in enhancing respectful care across RMNCAH.

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