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.
![Experiences in Implementing Health Worker Productivity Reforms in Timor-Leste](/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/2024-04/Experiences%20in%20Implementing%20Health%20Worker%20Productivity%20Reforms%20in%20Timor-Leste.png?itok=bMAW5v4i)
USAID and the MOH collaborated to improve health workforce management in Timor-Leste, focusing on job descriptions and evaluations. Moving forward, in-person training and institutionalization are recommended for sustainable implementation, aiming to enhance health care services and employee development.
![Nigeria success story Feb 22](/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/2024-02/success%20story%20Nigeria%20Feb%2022.png?itok=gO8FgiIG)
Improved referral system helps those experiencing poverty in Nasarawa State to better access to secondary care.
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This brief describes opportunities to improve financial protection programs using behavior change approaches. The Practice Spotlights Social and Behavior Change series supports USAID’s Vision for Health System Strengthening 2030 by exploring how social and behavior change approaches can contribute to countries’ health system strengthening efforts.
![Health System Strengthening Evidence Gap Map: Social and Behavior Change](/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/2024-01/Health%20System%20Strengthening%20Evidence%20Gap%20Map%20Social%20and%20Behavior%20Change.png?itok=bepccLJZ)
This two-pager focuses on USAID’s Learning Question 6, "What are key behavioral outcomes that indicate a functioning, integrated health system? In what ways can integrated health system strengthening approaches explicitly include social and behavior change?"
![Health System Strengthening Evidence Gap Map Integration and Engagement of Local Voices](/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/2024-01/Annotation%202024-01-26%20124126.png?itok=Lhx1iW7n)
This two-pager focuses on USAID’s Learning Question 4, “What are effective and sustainable mechanisms or processes to integrate local, community, sub-national, national, and regional voices, priorities, and contributions into USAID’s health system strengthening efforts?”
![Timor-Leste health workforce success story](/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/2023-12/Annotation%202023-12-21%20152537.png?itok=tw3Ke57N)
Health workers are welcoming new policies that promote equitable access to employment, professional development, and promotion opportunities.
![Jamaica public-private partnership overcome covid19 teaser](/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/2023-11/Annotation%202023-11-17%20134619.png?itok=xcJuNgMt)
Two years ago, as it struggled to contain the spread of the COVID-19 virus and get people vaccinated, the Government of Jamaica turned to private health care providers for help. The results went well beyond its expectations.
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This brief identifies systems considerations for CHW career progression, including health workforce education and training, regulation and policy, management, and financing.
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In the wake of recent political conflicts and global sanctions, Afghan women once again have access to family planning and maternal and child health products, thanks to the devoted efforts of a private social marketing organization.
![social accouontability and sbc](/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/2023-08/social%20accountability%20and%20sbc.png?itok=LFsSvShj)
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.
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This brief builds on the USAID Local Health System Sustainability Project (LHSS) Strengthening Governance report (2022) and global National Quality Policy and Strategy (NQPS) survey, aiming to provide practical examples and considerations for country practitioners to consider on their quality journeys. It includes case studies of three countries that have used NQPS to mobilize and align resources for quality.
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 learning brief can be used as a resource for HRH managers, planners, program managers, and frontline practitioners to learn how other countries are approaching and successfully designing and implementing solutions to their HRH challenges. It can also be used as a reference for health policy makers, funders, and implementing partners to inform the design and implementation of HRH resource optimization initiatives covered in this brief.
The COVID-19 pandemic placed extraordinary stress on the Kyrgyz Republic’s health system and health care providers, revealing the need for new approaches that would address the immediate needs brought on by the pandemic and contribute to the country’s health system resilience.
This brief presents the achievements of two NGOs that received grants to conduct risk communication and community engagement work under the LHSS Project in the Kyrgyz Republic. It examines the grants’ capacity strengthening impact on the two organizations, describes lessons learned, and provides recommendations for donors, implementing partners, and local government partners implementing similar programs.