Measuring Organizational Capacity in Southern Africa 

How do you measure the overall health of an organization? The USAID-funded Building Local Capacity for Delivery of HIV Services in Southern Africa (BLC) Project, led by MSH, began exploring how to measure the effects of its capacity building efforts last year.
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Evaluation and Research: Understanding If a Program Works, How, and Why  

Do leadership, management, and governance interventions result in improved service delivery outcomes (and therefore better health outcomes)? Reshma Trasi describes the evidence and research continuum that the USAID Leadership, Management, and Governance (LMG) project is using to explore these questions.
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Guidelines for Conducting Drug Resistant TB Drug Utilization Reviews: Kenya Field Test 

The USAID-funded, Systems for Improved Access to Pharmaceuticals and Services (SIAPS) Program, led by MSH, conducted a field test of the generic multi-drug resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) drug utilization review guidelines at five MDR-TB treatment facilities in Kenya.
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Unexpected Results: Health System Improvements through Knowledge Management Interventions 

No matter which health system building block you are trying to improve, you need specific data, information, and knowledge to inform your decision-making process.
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Registering and Licensing Rwandan Nurses and Midwives Improves Quality of Care  

Rwanda is establishing a national licensing system for nurses and midwives to help ensure Rwandans receive consistent care and reliable service quality.
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M&E for Better Global Health: Learning What Works, For Whom, and in What Circumstances: A Conversation with Juan-Carlos Alegre 

 

MSH spoke with Juan-Carlos Alegre, MSH's director of results management, impact and learning, on MSH's ongoing contributions and efforts to improve M&E in global health.

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Help MSH: "Giving Tuesday" for Global Health   

MSH is honored to participate in the "Giving Tuesday" call to action and national movement launched on November 27 and continuing throughout the "giving season".
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Cell Phone-based Community Health Information System Improves Maternal Health in Rwanda 

 

Community health workers are utilizing RapidSMS, a cell phone-based technology, to improve community maternal and child health in Rwanda.
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Supporting Women Leaders with Disabilities: Video 

 

About 15 percent of the global population -- more than one billion people -- live with some form of disability; about half are women, many of whom suffer gender-based violence.
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MEASURE Evaluation, Phase III (MEval III)

MSH provides capacity building in organization and leadership development and offers direct support to country M&E teams for MEval III, USAID's flagship M&E project.

Developing Organizational Capacity for Leadership and Monitoring and Evaluation: Southeast Asia and Africa
MEval III launched a Leadership Development Program, led by MSH, in the Southeast Asia and Africa regional offices of the International Planned Parenthood Federation to develop their leadership abilities around data collection and use, and to cultivate an office-wide M&E culture.
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New Monitoring and Evaluation Toolkit Available Online