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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 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 Spanish document contains the impact and lessons learned from the Access Without Borders intervention by the Oriéntame Foundation to optimize the territorial management of the response to the Sexual and Reproductive Health of the Venezuelan migrant population and host communities.
This Spanish document contains the impact and lessons learned from the intervention Strengthening Information, Education and Communication (IEC) Capacities carried out by Uniminuto to strengthen IEC processes in the communication offices of municipal, district or departmental health secretariats.
In this webinar, we discuss conditions that facilitate the institutionalization of practices that improve health system outcomes.
This Spanish document contains the impact and lessons learned from the health networks intervention carried out by Profamilia to strengthen the capacities and knowledge of 21 IPS in the cities of Bogotá – Soacha, Medellín, Cúcuta, Bucaramanga, Cali, Barranquilla, and Santa Marta.
The report will describe previous efforts to establish a health professional council, examine the current situation related to the management of health professionals’ competency, quality, and ethics; and assess the current roadblocks to establish a semi-autonomous health professional council.
This document builds on the rural retention desk review conducted by USAID’s Health System Sustainability Activity (the Activity). The desk review assessed WHO’s recommendations (WHO 2010) on approaches to increase recruitment and retention of health workers in rural and remote areas considering the Timor-Leste context and the country’s governing laws.
The manual clearly identifies the engagement mechanisms where REBAS-TL/CSOs could participate to discuss health issues that impact the population at national and municipality levels.
This brief strategy section will contextualize recruitment within the broader contexts of human resources for health and the broader health system, with the acknowledgment of the ultimate goal: to provide high-quality, accessible health care services to all Timorese people.
his document captures the progress so far in improving CSO-MoH engagement and the next steps.
This short handbook presents information and guidance to inform the advocacy efforts of REBAS-TL and its member CSOs.
USAID Local Health System Sustainability Project (LHSS) in Bangladesh works with 14 local government institutions (LGIs) to improve primary health care for urban poor! Watch how LHSS helped Habiganj Municipality to transform an abandoned building into a fully functional primary health care center, serving over 100,000 people in need!
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.