Across 52 programs in 32 countries – and nearly five years! – MCSP has been at the fore of tremendous improvements for women and their families in some of the most challenging areas for receiving high-quality health services. […]
Writer: Monitoring and Evaluation
A Ugandan Community Identifies and Addresses its Own Challenges to Protect Children from Disease
MCSP worked with a Ugandan health center to strengthen their ability to diagnose their own problems and craft locally appropriate solutions to them. […]
From Screening to Cleaning: This Nurse Leads by Example
Ranita’s hands-on management style has earned her not only the respect of the health center cleaning staff, but also the trust of the community she serves. […]
A New Generation of Indian Men Take Up Family Planning
MCSP is strengthening male permanent family planning services in India – and helping to create a more gender equitable environment. […]
Using a Health Facility Scorecard to Monitor and Improve the Coverage of Child Health Interventions in Rural Uganda
MCSP provided tailored technical assistance to Uganda’s Ministry of Health (MOH) and USAID’s Regional Health Integration to Enhance Services (RHITES) projects in the East Central (EC) and South Western (SW) regions from January 2017 to February 2019. MCSP’s objective was to identify, demonstrate and work with the MOH and RHITES partners to rollout a package […]
Monitoring and Evaluation of Evolving Social Accountability Efforts in Health – A Literature Synthesis
Social accountability interventions present various approaches that support citizens’ participation, direct or indirect, in dialogue with service providers and other officials with a goal of developing a collaborative relationship to improve quality of service provision. Despite recent attention on social accountability interventions, progress on updating or adapting how these interventions are monitored and evaluated has […]
Fostering Use of Routine Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn, and Child Health Data at the Point of Care
Encouraging better use of health management information system data for decision-making is a challenge at the heart of efforts to improve access to and quality of reproductive, maternal, newborn, and child health services at the community, facility, district/regional, and national levels. MCSP explored methods to encourage data use at the point of care (facility and […]
Calling All Girls
Health workers in Tanzania are making sure the HPV vaccine is not confined to classrooms. […]
After Birth and Beyond: Improving Care for Women with Pre-Eclampsia and Eclampsia
Despite its heavy toll of deaths, the postpartum period – sometimes referred to as “the fourth trimester” – is often neglected. […]
Engaging Indian Women Directly is Improving Contraceptive Uptake
As a health provider and mother in India, this MCSP-trained nurse has a common aim: empowering women and girls. […]