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While India has made significant progress in improving maternal, neonatal, and child health (MNCH) outcomes, wide state-level disparities remain with unacceptably high mortality rates among vulnerable groups such as urban poor, adolescent girls, and tribal populations. As part of USAID’s MOMENTUM suite of awards, the Systems Approach for MNCH focusing on Vulnerable Geographies (SAMVEG) Project…
Behavioral science, the evidence-based study of how people behave, make decisions, and respond to context (UN Innovation Network), offers promise in designing interventions to increase vaccine uptake, but its application in immunization has been limited to date. Through the Behavioral Science Immunization Network (BeSIN) project, JSI supports online and offline engagement at the global and…
The aim of this project is to influence key global health donors to strengthen capacity and re-imagine technical assistance (TA) in recipient countries. The Maternal, Neonatal, and Child Health (MNCH) strategy developed by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation defines technical assistance as one of the four functions of the global health architecture (along with…
Since 2018 JSI has been supporting the UNFPA Pacific Sub Regional Office (PSRO) and Pacific Island Countries and Territories with improving the use of data for program management and supply chain management (SC) while strengthening and updating the supply chain design to ensure end-to-end visibility of data and better use of that data to reduce…
In Ethiopia and Uganda, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) has supported JSI to implement programs that have included concepts and tools from the field of quality improvement (QI) to strengthen immunization systems (both for routine immunization and supply chain). To further expand and sustain/institutionalize these innovations, this concept note proposes an externally facilitated…
During the past year, JSI has worked closely with Health Monitoring, Evaluation and Research Unit (HMER) of the MOH and EPI to conduct a data and systems review. This review provided fundamental insight and analysis that shaped the systems assessment and data quality review, the results of which will feed into and form a foundation…
Read@Home (R@H) is an unprecedented effort to get reading, learning, and play materials into homes, led by the Education Global Practice at The World Bank Group. The initiative focuses on families who are unlikely to be reached with the remote learning approaches being rolled out by ministries of education (illiterate or semi-literate parents and families…
The USAID Zambia Accessible Markets for Health (ZAM-Health) Activity is a five-year project (2021-2026) that aims to sustainably expand the availability and accessibility of high-quality health products and services in the private sector, improve health knowledge, and increase the adoption of healthy and health-seeking behaviors. Within the framework of a total market approach (TMA), the…
Access to essential medicines is critical to reaching universal health coverage and is recognized as a key building block of a strong health system. Over the years, the Nigerian procurement supply management (PSM) systems for distribution of public health commodities evolved into multiple, overlapping supply chain systems due to lack of strong central ownership/coordination. The…
The Total Market Approach (TMA) project will continue to work through national TMA coordinating structures to increase awareness on HIV-prevention commodities and to optimize distribution and use of HIV-prevention commodities among key population groups. Project activities will promote sustainable approaches for condom, lubricant, PrEP, and HIVST programming using TMA. The project will continue to gather…