Publication Date September 1, 2022 Webinars

Social Behavior Change to Improve Maternal Nutrition

MOMENTUM Country and Global Leadership and USAID Advancing Nutrition held a webinar on September 14th, 2022, to learn about and discuss new USAID resources on social and behavior change and maternal diets. Presenters will share these new resources with implementers and foster discussions on how they can be used to improve maternal nutrition.

Publication Date September 1, 2022 Program & Technical Resources

Private Sector COVID-19 Engagement: Cataloguing Activities Around Vaccine Acceptance and Uptake

This Findings Report includes an overview of the MOMENTUM Routine Immunization Transformation and Equity project’s global mapping of private sector interventions supporting COVID-19 efforts, detailed profiles of each intervention level and type, and recommendations aligned to persona profiles and considerations for next steps. The report is accompanied by a corresponding infographic.

Publication Date September 1, 2022 Research & Evidence

Understanding Resilience, Self-reliance, and Increasing Country Voice/Decolonizing Global Health: A Clash of Perspectives in Global Health

MOMENTUM Country and Global Leadership examines the concepts of ‘self-reliance,’ ‘resilience,’ and ‘increasing country voice,’ exploring the differences in how each concept is understood and measured. In the reports and journal articles linked below, authors consider the factors that explain differences in how the concepts are used, as well as implications for practice in global health, particularly for the USAID MOMENTUM suite of awards and new USAID programs.

Publication Date September 1, 2022 Webinars

2022 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 September 1, 2022, to discuss major global technical updates since October 2021, hear about results from an immunization primary health care integration study in Nigeria, and explore opportunities to disseminate results.

Publication Date August 1, 2022 Program & Technical Resources

Technical Brief: Imaging Ultrasound Before 24 Weeks of Pregnancy

In 2022, the World Health Organization (WHO) updated the routine ultrasound recommendation originally published in the 2016 WHO recommendations on antenatal care for a positive pregnancy experience. This technical brief from MOMENTUM Country and Global Leadership describes the re-affirmed WHO recommendation on routine antenatal ultrasound examination and outlines policy and program implications for translating this recommendation into action at the country level. 

Publication Date August 1, 2022 Program & Technical Resources

Répondre aux besoins contraceptifs des jeunes grâce aux outils numériques : atteindre la jeunesse béninoiseoù ells se trouve

MOMENTUM Prestation de Soins de Santé Privés vise à améliorer l'accès des jeunes à des informations fiables sur la santé sexuelle et reproductive (SSR) à l'aide d'outils numériques. Avec l'aide des jeunes, MOMENTUM a conçu un chatbot axé sur la SSR, Tata Annie, pour répondre aux besoins des jeunes au Bénin et fournir des informations confidentielles et à la demande sur la SSR. Cette note de programme décrit les principaux éléments de conception et les adaptations faites pour l'outil numérique, y compris la façon dont MOMENTUM a tiré parti des formations et du soutien de Meta pour promouvoir le chatbot.

Publication Date August 1, 2022 Program & Technical Resources

Meeting the Contraceptive Needs of Youth Through Digital Tools: Reaching Beninese Youth Where They Are

MOMENTUM Private Healthcare Delivery aims to improve youth access to reliable sexual and reproductive health (SRH) information with digital tools. With youth input, MOMENTUM designed an SRH-focused chatbot, Tata Annie, to meet the needs of youth in Benin and to provide confidential, on-demand SRH information. This program brief outlines the key design elements and adaptations made for the digital tool, including how MOMENTUM leveraged trainings and support from Meta to promote the chatbot.

Publication Date August 1, 2022 Research & Evidence

Behaviorally Focused Applied Political Economy Analysis for MOMENTUM Nigeria: Primary Research Findings and Results

There is no shortage of literature on issues of gender-based violence (GBV) in Nigeria, but there is little rigorous research that documents gender dynamics from the perspectives of community and traditional leaders. To fill this gap, MOMENTUM Country and Global Leadership conducted this behaviorally-focused applied political economy analysis and associated technical brief to assess Ebonyi and Sokoto States of Nigeria. The analysis identified which behaviors, if practiced, would increase local leader engagement in the prevention and mitigation of intimate partner violence, sexual violence, and child and early forced marriage, and the barriers and incentives to adopting them. Findings are being used to inform MOMENTUM Country and Global Leadership Nigeria activities and can be used by policymakers, researchers, and others as they adapt and expand their work with community leaders to advance a more justiciable and equitable future free from GBV.

Publication Date August 1, 2022 Research & Evidence

An Analysis of Laws and Policies to Combat Gender-Based Violence in Nigeria: A Desk Review for the MOMENTUM Country and Global Leadership Nigeria Activity

Despite the passage of new legislation in Nigeria at federal and state levels to address gender-based violence (GBV), many forms of GBV are increasing. As part of the project’s work to address different forms of GBV in Ebonyi and Sokoto states. MOMENTUM Country and Global Leadership Nigeria conducted a review of relevant legal and policy frameworks, as well as gaps and challenges of implementing laws.

Publication Date August 1, 2022 Research & Evidence

Social Norms Exploration on Child, Early, and Forced Marriage, Intimate Partner Violence, and Adoption of Family Planning in Ebonyi and Sokoto States, Nigeria

Nigeria has made significant strides in improving human development outcomes, but improvements are markedly different for adolescent girls and women compared to boys and men. The country remains a patriarchal society where social norms and structural inequality render women subordinate to men. Global evidence demonstrates that deeply entrenched, restrictive norms underlie the practice of child, early, and forced marriage and gender-based violence, and limit women’s agency and decision-making power related to their reproductive health behaviors and choices.  MOMENTUM Country and Global Leadership Nigeria used the Social Norms Exploration Tool to understand the social norms driving child, early, and forced marriage, intimate partner violence, and early adoption of family planning in selected project areas of Sokoto and Ebonyi states, Nigeria.