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.
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 USAID Health System Sustainability Activity in Timor-Leste continues to support the Ministry of Health in strengthening the existing community health system and expanding the CBM-Health approach to additional villages.
Civil society organizations in Timor-Leste are playing important roles to identify health system problems and solutions, contribute ideas to the Ministry of Health’s (MOH) annual action plan, and participate in monitoring that holds the government accountable.
Since its establishment in 2022, REBAS-TL has promoted civil society engagement with the country’s health sector to strengthen health outcomes for the Timorese people.
Rede Ba Saúde Timor-Leste (REBAS-TL), the country's first-ever health CSO network, celebrated its one-year anniversary on May 5, 2023 highlighting the network's achievements to date.
A Timorese NGO is helping the Ministry of Health provide accurate information about the COVID-19 vaccine, resulting in increased vaccination in target municipalities.
This Catalog allows practitioners to consider which interventions have more robust evidence bases to support their practical application, such as: enhancing worker and supervisor competencies through training, offering nonfinancial incentives for high performers, practicing task sharing to promote cost savings, implementing digital solutions to expand access to services, and reducing costs of procuring and distributing pharmaceutical products.
To advance progress toward universal health coverage, agreed-upon health priorities need to be reflected in national plans and budgets. This blog offers key lessons for ministries of health seeking to make that happen.
This learning resource presents key learning from the activity literature review, learning exchange meetings, and TA workshops. This resource focuses particularly on stakeholder engagement and institutionalizing stronger links between national health priorities, sector plans and national budgets, which learning partners identified as their most pressing issues.
This document outlines LHSS’s strategy for supporting the strengthening and scale up of local capacity through country and core activities. Designed for use by LHSS staff and local partners, this strategy provides a framework and details on how to develop, implement, monitor, and evaluate sustainable health system strengthening activities. This strategy replaces the LHSS Scale Up of Local Capacity Strategy (2019).
This video captures Timor-Leste’s progress in increasing COVID-19 vaccination coverage and strengthening the capacity of health care professionals – efforts supported by LHSS’s local NGO partner HAMNASA.
Given the complexity of the causes and effects of the SDoH and the multitude of stakeholders and interventions needed, this publication introduces the Theory of Change (ToC) that can help those seeking to develop interventions to address and mitigate the effect of the SDoH on health.
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.
In Bangladesh, LHSS has built relationships with ministries, departments, and development partners to support its objective of assisting urban primary health care delivery. This newsletter provides detailed information about the latest news, updates, and activities in Bangladesh.
The ‘COVID19 SAFE’ project opened with the launch of COVID-19 vaccination to school-age children (12–17 years old) in the Bobonaro municipality. The USAID Activity, working through HAMNASA, supported the Ministry of Health and Municipality Health Services in conducting community mobilization and disseminating COVID-19 information to the Memo village community, including to teachers and parents of school-age children.