Learning and knowledge sharing are fundamental to the LHSS Project. We invite you to search LHSS knowledge products and resources for the latest approaches, insights, and learning in the field of integrated health systems strengthening.
![COP of Nigeria during the LHSS workshop](/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/2024-06/Nigeria_GKS%20Workshop_COP.jpg?itok=hjTynbFP)
LHSS Nigeria recently held a global knowledge strategy workshop in Abuja. The primary goal of the workshop was to evaluate and identify areas for improving health system performance influenced by LHSS initiatives. Participants collaborated in thematic groups, focusing on key performance determinants and sharing valuable lessons learned. This collaborative effort aimed to enhance the effectiveness and sustainability of health system interventions in Nigeria.
![Namibia SOP Training teaser](/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/2024-03/Namibia_SOP%20Training_0.jpg?itok=RhaQLezB)
The Ministry of Health and Social Services gathered stakeholders at Midgard Country Estate to consult on standard operating procedures for social contracting. The goal: reach consensus on implementation plans and outline the path ahead, encompassing regional dissemination, pilot planning, and early implementation phases scheduled for later in the year.
![Namibia ESHP REVISION HIRES](/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/2024-02/Namibia_ESHP%20revision_hires_0.jpg?itok=nB4tdPyV)
Explore how the Ministry of Health and Social Services in Namibia, with support from the LHSS Project, is transforming health care access through the revised Essential Health Services Package.
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With LHSS support, the Government of the Republic of Kazakhstan hosted an Interagency Technical Working Group Coordination Meeting in Astana. Ministries of Health, Veterinary Services, Agriculture, and Ecology, alongside international organizations, discussed collaborative preparedness, human resource capacity for One Health, and joint disease investigation.
![Tajikistan news story](/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/2024-02/Tajikistan%20news%20story.jpg?itok=TgUmRspM)
With support from USAID’s LHSS Project, the Ministry of Health and Social Protection of the Population (MOHSPP) in Tajikistan strengthened Tajikistan’s national laboratory system and supported the country’s COVID-19 Country Preparedness and Response Plan.
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This brief introduces the social determinants of health (SDOH) concept and terminology, and discusses approaches to addressing SDOH. Understanding these root causes of health inequities and their impact on health care access, quality, and equity is crucial to strengthening health systems.
![HSS Practice Spotlight Collborative learning](/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/2024-01/HSS%20Practice%20Spotlight%20Collaborative%20learning.png?itok=7SEUI5Ho)
This brief introduces collaborative learning as an effective approach to support sustainable health system strengthening. Collaborative learning brings together local leaders and experts to learn from one another, problem-solve, co-create new knowledge, and adapt and apply their learning.
![Nigeria news story teaser image](/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/2024-01/Nigeria%20news%20story%20photo.png?itok=Oqkun5lp)
Agencies that rarely communicated joined hands last year to make sure poor and vulnerable residents are identified for assistance programs.
![EAC Health Data Governance](/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/2024-01/pr_20112023_01.jpg?itok=VwNeXQ_k)
The East African Community (EAC) Secretariat, the East African Legislative Assembly (EALA), and the Pan African Health Informatics Association (HELINA) have concluded a commitment by all three parties to foster stronger health data governance to drive digital transformation and innovations in the health sector of East Africa.
![IGAD WORKSHOP PHOTO](/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/2024-02/IGAD%20Workshop%20photo.jpg?itok=yvyinq3o)
The Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD), with support from LHSS, commenced the first Technical Workshop on strengthening domestication and implementation of regional Health cross–border policies, in Bishoftu, Ethiopia.
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This brief highlights the recent shifts in health systems practice toward more explicitly incorporating an SBC lens in social accountability activities that aim to improve overall health system performance and address inequities. The brief synthesizes the growing body of evidence on the role social accountability plays in increasing accessibility to better-quality health care services and uses case studies and lessons learned to highlight how SBC approaches can be more explicitly integrated into this aspect of HSS programming.
This learning brief captures LHSS’s experience in supporting municipal-level partners through the contracting process and distills emerging lessons to inspire other municipalities to pursue public-private partnerships as a vehicle for expanding access to urban PHC services.
This brief presents what LHSS has learned through applying a systems thinking approach to its support for HSCs’ advocacy efforts in expanding PHC services in urban Bangladesh.
This brief presents work completed under the LHSS Kyrgyz Republic Activity Intervention 4: Enhance Cold Chain System. LHSS worked with key government stakeholders, including the Republican Center of Immunoprophylaxis, to digitalize and update components of the country’s vaccine registry and complement these updates by adding additional functionalities for cold chain tracking and management.
This brief highlights learnings from working with local government leaders of two city corporations and ten district-level municipalities from the Rajshahi and Sylhet divisions in Bangladesh.