Download the presentations and posters that capture our expertise and country results as they relate to today’s pressing health challenges. […]
Presentations from the 2018 Global Symposium on Health Systems Research now available!
Writer: Health Systems Strengthening
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). […]
Enhanced Human Capacity for Health Care Service Delivery in Liberia: MCSP/RHS Liberia Case Study
This case study describes a combination of human capacity development (HCD) approaches used in Liberia to help restore the essential package of health services (EPHS), including a unique approach to integrated reproductive, maternal, newborn, child, and adolescent health (RMNCAH) training and follow-up supervision and mentoring for health workers. […]
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 […]
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 […]
Health Systems Strengthening in MCSP Country Programs: A Review of MCSP’s Work to Strengthen Health Systems for Improved RMNCH
MCSP incorporates health systems strengthening (HSS) approaches to support programming along nine technical areas—family planning, maternal health, newborn health, child health, immunization, nutrition, malaria, HIV/AIDS, and water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH). While MCSP incorporates HSS approaches across its country programs, MCSP’s midterm evaluation found that HSS activities at country level were not well documented. To […]
Survive & Thrive: Guiding the Way Forward
The majority of maternal, newborn and child deaths are preventable and treatable with existing, cost-effective tools and interventions. Practices in health facilities are often far behind evidence-based Maternal, Newborn and Child Health (MNCH) standards. There is a critical need to improve the quality of services in order to reduce preventable deaths, especially as the rate […]
MCSP Health Management Information Systems Webinar Series
MCSP is hosting a three-part webinar series on Health Management Information Systems. […]
Save the date: Aligning the Stars for Quality RMNCH Care! What Does it Take?
Join us for a discussion of critical quality gaps in RMNCH care and ongoing work to improve and sustain high-quality care at scale. […]
