How do we encourage better use of quality data for decision making? This question is at the heart of MCSP’s efforts to improve access to and quality of RMNCH services at community and facility levels. […]
Location: Africa
Accelerating Access to Postpartum Family Planning Report
The 2018 International Conference on Family Planning (ICFP) afforded a key opportunity for government representatives, family planning (FP) partners and experts from the Family Planning 2020 (FP2020) countries to collaborate on their FP priorities and commitments. Postpartum family planning (PPFP) is one of the high-impact interventions that countries can employ to fast-track progress toward the […]
Kenya Program Briefs
MCSP used evidence-based interventions to improve reproductive, maternal, newborn, and child health in Kenya. The eight briefs below summarize the interventions. Child Health Community Health Programs Family Planning Human Capacity Development Malaria Maternal and Newborn Health Nutrition WASH […]
Living in the In-Between: Learning from Egypt’s Growing Pains
As Egypt transitions to “developed,” the social and political life of the country is rapidly moving to meet global standards. Every country on this path will need to balance traditional thinking with new ideas about health, wellbeing, prosperity, and gender. […]
When a Gender Expert’s Friend Experiences Partner Violence
Growing up, I had a friend named Chinyere. Like every other young girl in the neighborhood, she had great dreams and aspirations. […]
Exploring cause and effect: Use of contribution analysis to describe intervention impact
Grounded in well-articulated theories of change, contribution analysis gives us a way to understand whether and how interventions supported by a program may have caused or contributed to changes in outcomes. […]
Accroître l’utilisation des services de santé par les jeunes parents à travers l’approche intégrée de SRMN: Leçons d’une démonstration de faisabilité à Madagascar
The poster highlights increasing the use of health services amongst first time young parents in Madagascar. […]
Students Need Protection, Too: Family Planning Targets Future Nurses & Midwives in Liberia
MCSP is keeping unwanted pregnancies from ending the education of Liberia’s future health professionals. […]
Community-based Health Planning and Services (CHPS) in Ghana – Formative Research to Adapt the CHPS Model to Urban Settings
This assessment aims to work with the Ghana Health Service (GHS) to validate and add to the findings of two pilot projects by gaining a more representative view of health needs and Community-based Health Planning and Services (CHPS) implementation in urban settings in regions of Ghana. This MCSP learning activity will aim to use the […]
Round Table on Social Accountability Malawi, September 2018: Report and Suggestions Moving Forward
Since 2015, MCSP has worked closely with Malawi partners to advance social accountability documentation and research . UNICEF, with funding from the Gates Foundation, implemented the project ‘Social Accountability for Every Woman Every Child’ (SAcc EWEC) in Malawi from 2016 – 2018. The project worked to facilitate community and civil society organization platforms to carry […]