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.
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LHSS shared the review of Timor-Leste’s thriving landscape of civil society organizations (CSOs), with a focus on those that are active in the health sector.
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What do Lao PDR, Malaysia, and Kenya have in common? All three countries have strengthened their budget structures and processes to enable good health budget execution. Their experiences hold valuable lessons for others striving to increase budget execution and unlock significant resources for health.
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This report offers recommendations to strengthen engagement mechanisms and increase CSOs’ and community awareness of health services and citizens’ rights.
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This report provides results and lessons learned from the LHSS Project’s review of existing literature on expanding financial protection to underserved and socially excluded populations in LMICs.
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Late last year, health sector practitioners from eight countries met to tackle the issue head-on as participants in the Joint Learning Network Health Budget Execution Learning Exchange. They made meaningful progress.
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In December 2021, more than 180 midwives from across Timor-Leste participated in an Activity-led event to identify areas for improvement in a set of draft standards.
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In this webinar, we discuss promising practices for establishing a learning culture. Dr. Malangizo Mbewe, Acting Director, Quality Management Department, Ministry of Health and Population in Malawi, also shares his experience establishing systems to support continuous quality improvement.
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By now, much has been written about the egregious global inequities in COVID-19 vaccine distribution. But less has been said about another inequity that holds serious implications for global health: the disparities in genomic sequencing capacities and capabilities worldwide.
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She’s a big thinker, with an illustrious background. Midori de Habich was Peru’s minister of health and chair of the South American Council of Health from 2012-2014. She has served on various WHO working groups and missions and led USAID-funded projects in Peru. Now, she is applying her expertise in financial protection and population coverage to LHSS as the project’s technical director.
Experts from LHSS partner Avenir Health and a representative from the Ethiopia Ministry of Health presented on the Spectrum modeling suite, a free software package designed to support integrated strategic planning over a range of health areas, including HIV, tuberculosis, malaria, maternal and child health, and family planning.
This Year 3 Quarter 1 Report (Oct-Dec 2021) was prepared for USAID and provides a progress update for all annual work plan activities.
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This Practice Spotlight brief describes the Ethiopia Ministry of Health’s Information Revolution, an initiative that aimed to improve health services by facilitating better availability, quality, and use of health data across the health system.
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This Practice Spotlight brief describes outcome harvesting, a monitoring, evaluation, research, and learning approach that can help tease out the specific impacts of HSS interventions conducted in complex environments, where many factors may influence an outcome.