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 two-pager focuses on USAID’s Learning Question 3, “What measurement tools, approaches, and data sources, from HSS or other fields, are most helpful in understanding interrelationships and interactions, and estimating impact of HSS interventions on health system outcomes and priority health outcomes?”

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 Year 4 Quarter 1 Report (Oct-Dec 2022) was prepared for USAID and provides a progress update for all annual work plan activities. 

We are proud to share the LHSS Year 3 Annual Report which highlights the many achievements we celebrated with our country partners this year. 

We are proud to share the LHSS Year 3 Annual Report which highlights the many achievements we celebrated with our country partners this year. 

This report synthesizes learning from an in-depth examination of successful MOH efforts that have led to increased health budget execution. It offers a vision of good health budget execution, as well as promising practices in the areas of budget structure and processes and budget accountability.

This literature review seeks to identify, analyze, and document successful efforts to integrate Social Determinants of Health into health workforce education, training, and service delivery in low- and middle-income countries.

This Year 3 Quarter 3 Report (April-June 2022) was prepared for USAID and provides a progress update for all annual work plan activities. 

The case study in Senegal focused on practical experiences and lessons learned when expanding financial protection to socially excluded and vulnerable groups.

The case study shows the literature and previous work on health equity to identify promising approaches and strategies from Senegal’s experience to ensure more equitable financial protection, particularly for underserved and socially excluded populations.

This Year 3 Quarter 2 Report (Jan-Mar 2022) was prepared for USAID and provides a progress update for all annual work plan activities. 

This report describes key private sector players and their types of engagement in malaria programming in Cote d’Ivoire, Democratic Republic of Congo, Liberia, and Uganda.

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.

This Year 3 Quarter 1 Report (Oct-Dec 2021) was prepared for USAID and provides a progress update for all annual work plan activities.