Innovating for Maternal and Child Health in Africa(2022-02)
The paper describes several initiatives from the programme for Innovating for Maternal and Child Health in Africa (IMCHA). Innovations stemmed from project design, strategies for community engagement, and policy makers’ ...
The Innovating for Maternal and Child Health in Africa (IMCHA) project tackles health systems issues by focusing on ensuring that research is designed, presented, and packaged to influence policy. In Tanzania, most projects ...
The design of the Innovating for Maternal and Child Health in Africa (IMCHA) initiative prioritized knowledge translation and research uptake as key objectives in all projects. The project design insisted using ‘implementation ...
Innovating for Maternal and Child Health in Africa(2022)
This graphic portrays a timeline (2014-2020), breaking down steps and activities in training and planning towards improved health care for women and children, through the Innovating for Maternal and Child Health in Africa ...
Innovating for Maternal and Child Health in Africa(2022)
This two-page poster type brief provides details of six Core grants, their goals and results, as well as four “Synergy” grant components which outline particular activities that enhance the core grant projects. The synergy ...
The Innovating for Maternal and Child Health in Africa (IMCHA) initiative was designed to generate findings that could influence policies and practices at national and subnational levels. This case study documents the added ...
Innovating for Maternal and Child Health in Africa(2022)
Developing evidence-informed policies was at the heart of the Innovating for Maternal and Child Health in Africa (IMCHA) initiative. IMCHA projects have informed the adoption or revision of more than 20 policies and practices ...
Innovating for Maternal and Child Health in Africa(2022)
Low participation of men in Maternal and Child Health (MCH) care negatively impacts the lives and health pf women and children. Because men are often the main providers and decision-makers for the entire family for example, ...
Thorsteinsdóttir, Halla; Bell, Jennifer Mary; Bandyopadhyay, Nandinee(2018-10-21)
The initiative supports 19 research teams (13 in East Africa; 6 in West Africa) to encourage Africa-Canada collaboration in projects to improve maternal and child health (MCH). This mid-term formative evaluation identifies ...
Thorsteinsdóttir, Halla; Bell, Jennifer M.(2018-10)
Involving decision-makers from the beginning of research projects is the most conducive model for project implementation processes. Maternal and Child Health in Africa (IMCHA) incorporates decision-makers as co-Principal ...
Bell, Jennifer M.; Thorsteinsdóttir, Halla(2018-10)
The analysis combines document review, online surveys, in-depth interviews with donor representatives, fieldwork in Africa and Canada, and focus group discussions with stakeholders. Innovating for Maternal and Child Health ...
Innovating for Maternal and Child Health in Africa(2021)
Community Health Workers (CHW) have contributed to universal health coverage by ensuring access to care for the hardest to reach. They are vital to building strong health systems moving towards achieving the United Nations ...
The article/study assesses the impact of community participation on improving sexual and reproductive health. Comparing changes between 2016 and 2019, the number of health committees operating in Natikiri (Nampula, Mozambique) ...
The study reviewed policy documents on maternal, newborn and child health (MNCH) in Nigeria to assess the application of evidence-informed mechanisms in the policy formulation process. From a literature review, policy ...
Kamau, Lynette; Nkonge, Moreen; Mangwana, Jane; Nakimuli, Eva(African Population and Health Research Center (APHRC), 2021-05)
The Innovating for Maternal and Child Health (IMCH) initiative has supported 19 research teams in 11 countries. Research findings are rarely enough on their own for influencing health policy. For this reason, the initiative ...