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1. Strengthening Community Engagement and Local Government Support to Improve Community Health Care Programs

   

   The purpose of this policy brief is to inform discussions and decisions at the national and local levels in Bangladesh regarding why community and government support is essential to improve community health programming. This brief summarizes recent progra

   Publication year: 2020 Publisher(s): Save the Children US | USAID, US Agency for International Development

2. Effects of Terrorist Attacks on Access to Maternal Healthcare Services: A national longitudinal study in Burkina Faso

   

   Improvements in access to healthcare are likely to disappear if new barriers are introduced or former barriers are reinstituted. Common barriers for women's access to healthcare are user-fees and distance as well as poor quality. One aspect that remains u

   Publication year: 2020 Publisher(s): BMJ Global Health Author(s): Druetz, Thomas | Browne, Lalique | Bicaba, Frank | Mitchell, Matthew I. | ...

3. Baby-friendly Hospital Initiative Training Course for Maternity Staff

   

   All health workers who care for women and children during the postnatal period and beyond have a key role to play in establishing and sustaining breastfeeding. Many health workers cannot fulfill this role effectively because they have not been trained to

   Publication year: 2020 Publisher(s): WHO, World Health Organization | UNICEF, United Nations Children's Fund

4. Clients Exit Interview of Community Health and Social Accountability Project (CHASP)

   

   CHASP project is funded by SIDA and SDC builds upon SCI’s decentralized approach used in the Karkaar Region of Puntland as part of the DFID-funded CHANGE programme. The decentralized system for the delivery of health care and Nutrition services empowers d

   Publication year: 2019 Publisher(s): Save the Children Somalia/Somaliland | Save the Children International Author(s): Abdullahi Hussein, Leila | Mohamed Sheikh, Ali

5. Off the Radar: Meeting Contraceptive Needs of Populations on the Move

   

   This meeting summary provides an overview of and findings from the “Off the Radar: Meeting Contraceptive Needs of Populations on the Move” side event from the International Conference on Family Planning 2018. It is a helpful resource for program staff who

   Publication year: 2019 Publisher(s): Save the Children US

6. Evaluation de l'intervention pour améliorer la performance des ASC dans la recherche active des cas d'enfants malades dans 10 aires de sante du district sanitaire de Kolondieba

   

   A study by the USAID-funded Services de Santé à Grand Impact (SSGI) project in Mali (High-Impact Health Services Project) to evaluate the integration of active case detection of malaria, pneumonia, diarrhea, and acute malnutrition in children aged 0 to 5,

   Publication year: 2019 Publisher(s): Save the Children US

7. Research Brief MaMoni HSS Project- Evidence Based Human Resource for Health (HRH) Planning: Workload Indicators of Staffing Need (WISN) application at Public Sector Health Facilities

   

   This is a MaMoni Health Systems Strengthening (HSS) program brief that covers key learning from an assessment of workloads for various cadres of health facility staff in select districts of Bangladesh using the Workload Indicators for Staffing Need (WISN)

   Publication year: 2018 Publisher(s): Save the Children Bangladesh

8. Primary Health Care First: Strengthening the foundation for universal health coverage

   

   Universal health coverage (UHC) promises a world in which all people have access to the health services, vaccinations and medicines they need, without risk of financial hardship. A world where the right to health is realised for the 400 million people who

   Publication year: 2017 Publisher(s): Save the Children Author(s): Szabo, Gabrielle

9. Long-term Effects of Zika on Children, Families and Communities

   

   The Zika epidemic first caught global attention in 2015 when Brazil started reporting an increase in cases and a high incidence of children born with microcephaly potentially linked to the outbreak. In February 2016, the World Health Organisation (WHO) an

   Publication year: 2016 Publisher(s): Save the Children

10. Creating Impact: Success Stories, Improving the lives of children in cotton growing districts of Pakistan

    

    Save the Children implemented a child rights program, titled as CHAON “Children's Action against Oppression and Neglect” in 200 villages of Muzaffargarh (Punjab) and 150 villages of Sanghar (Sindh) from 2009 to 2014. This Program was implemented with the

    Publication year: 2016 Publisher(s): Save the Children

11. Time Volunteered on Community Health Activities by Brigadistas in Nicaragua

    

    "Brigadistas de Salud" are unpaid volunteers trained by the Nicaraguan Ministry of Health to implement the National Community Programme for Health and Nutrition. Brigadistas are part of an integrated Community Case Management (iCCM) strategy that aims to

    Publication year: 2016 Publisher(s): Pan American Health Organization Author(s): Adamo, Meredith | Rivera, Dixmer | Shah, Rashed | Koepsell, Jeanne | ...

12. Struggling to Survive: Stories from Yemen's collapsing health system

    

    Every ten minutes, one Yemeni child dies from preventable causes like diarrhea, malnutrition, and respiratory tract infection.  Yemen's children are at the heart of the world's worst humanitarian crisis. Ten million children are in urgent need of assistan

    Publication year: 2016 Publisher(s): Save the Children

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