This eight-page brief illuminates MSCP’s works with global stakeholders, governments, and partners in more than 30 countries to improve coverage and quality of high-impact, person-centered reproductive, maternal, newborn and child health care. […]
Writer: Child Health
Caregiver Psychosocial Support
The purpose of this manual is to be a guide for peers, counselors or social workers conducting psychosocial support sessions for caregivers, both men and women, of children with disabilities of any age. The manual is available in Spanish. A PowerPoint is also available to accompany the manual in English and Spanish. […]
Strengthening Nutrition in the Integrated Community Case Management of Childhood Illness in Democratic Republic of Congo
In the Democratic Republic of Congo, MCSP is working in collaboration with the Ministry of Public Health (MOPH) to strengthen the national integrated management of childhood illness (IMCI) and integrated community case management (iCCM) strategies, and supporting their rollout in Tshopo and Bas-Uélé provinces. Part of the IMCI strategy includes assessing the nutritional status of […]
An Alternative to Classroom-Based Health Worker Training in Rwanda: MCSP Rwanda Case Study
This case study describes a combination of human capacity development (HCD) approaches used in 10 districts of Rwanda, with support from MCSP, to strengthen service delivery for high-impact interventions that include: Helping Babies Breathe (HBB)/essential newborn care (ENC), basic emergency obstetric and newborn care (BEmONC), and integrated management of childhood illnesses (IMCI). […]
Ending the Game of Chance: Improving Access to Essential Medicines in Nigeria with Better Data Use
Building the capacity to manage and use of data for supply chain decision making in Nigeria improved the availability of essential medicines. […]
Qualitative Assessment of Family Planning and Immunization Service Integration in Malawi: Dowa and Ntchisi Districts
In Malawi, at the policy level, maternal and child health services are integrated as part of the Essential Health Package; however, in practice, this integration has not been fully realized. Family planning (FP) and immunization services have been provided largely in parallel, according to different schedules and by different providers. To optimize health contacts and […]
MCSP Synthesis Brief: Improving Quality of Care at Scale for Better RMNCH Outcomes
This eight-page brief illuminates MSCP’s works with global stakeholders, governments, and partners in more than 30 countries to improve coverage and quality of high-impact, person-centered reproductive, maternal, newborn and child health care. […]
MCSP Nigeria (MNCH Program) Technical Brief
This eight-page brief illuminates MSCP’s work to improve the quality of maternal, newborn, and postpartum family planning care in Nigeria. […]
MCSP Mozambique Program Brief: Quality Improvement
This eight-page brief illuminates MSCP’s quality improvement (QI) work in Mozambique is to improve key reproductive, maternal, neonatal and child health outcomes by ensuring that services are safe, effective, timely, respectful, coordinated and equitable. The program builds leadership and capacity of the Ministry of Health for QI at the national level and in Nampula and Sofala […]
Therapeutic Early Stimulation Toolkit: Helping Young Children with Disabilities Meet Their Potential
The goal of this toolkit is to provide structured and effective training for community health workers, early intervention therapists, midwives, clinical officers, and other service providers who will be implementing the Therapeutic Early Stimulation (TES) Package as well as coaching parents in their catchment areas. The TES Toolkit includes several resources to support participant learning […]