Mobile health (mHealth) tools have potential for improving the reach and quality of health information and services through community health workers in low- and middle-income countries.
The Government of Bihar (GoB) in India, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and several non-governmental organisations launched the Ananya program aimed to support the GoB to improve reproductive, maternal, newborn and child health and nutrition (RMNCHN) statewide.
Despite increasing focus on health inequities in low- and middle income countries, significant disparities persist.
mHealth technology holds promise for improving the effectiveness of frontline health workers (FLWs), who provide most health-related primary care services, especially reproductive, maternal, newborn, child health and nutrition services (RMNCHN), in low-resource - especially hard-to-reach - settings....
The authors evaluated the impact of a ‘Team-Based Goals and Incentives’ (TBGI) intervention in Bihar, India, designed to improve front-line (community health) worker (FLW) performance and health-promoting behaviours related to reproductive, maternal, newborn and child health and nutrition.
This issue brief for practitioners offers eight lessons based on the analysis of 18 life skills programs in Africa and Asia—on the design, delivery, measurement, and scale-up of youth life skills programming in low- and middle-income countries.
This issue brief for government officials offers lessons on how to successfully devise, roll out, scale, and strengthen life skills policies for youth in low-and middle-income countries.
This study, in support of the Partnership to Strengthen Innovation and Practice in Secondary Education (PSIPSE), offers action-oriented lessons and policy implications for changemakers committed to building, implementing, and scaling life skills programming.
This report presents the findings from interim data collection for the Nutrition Project that took place between October and December 2017.
Enhancing teacher quality is a high priority for the Partnership to Strengthen Innovation and Practice in Secondary Education (PSIPSE)—a collaborative of donors seeking to catalyze improvements in secondary education.
This report presents key findings from a Mathematica study that draws out learnings from the experiences of eight grantees of the Partnership to Strengthen Innovation and Practice in Secondary Education that are implementing teacher training programs to improve secondary education in East Africa and...
This report summarizes the results of the 2016 monitoring effort conducted by Mathematica for the Partnership to Strengthen Innovation and Practice in Secondary Education (PSIPSE).
This report summarizes the results of the 2016 monitoring effort conducted by Mathematica for the Partnership to Strengthen Innovation and Practice in Secondary Education (PSIPSE).
The universal education movement has dramatically increased the number of children attending primary school in Africa and Asia.
This report evaluates the impacts of a comprehensive package of interventions aimed at improving maternal and child health in Bihar, India, after two years of implementation.
The Ananya program in Bihar, India, has implemented both supply- and demand-side strategies to improve coverage and uptake of maternal and child health, reproductive health, and nutrition services.
This issue brief explores the effect of adding the Team-Based Goals and Performance-Based Incentives (TBGI, see left) intervention to the Ananya program.
The Ananya program (ananya is a Sanskrit word meaning “unique” or “unlike others”) was created by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (the foundation) to address some of the important family health challenges in Bihar, one of India’s most populous and poorest states.
The MasterCard Foundation Scholars Program is a secondary and university scholarship and support Program for economically disadvantaged but academically promising youth with a demonstrated commitment to social change.
This report presents findings from the qualitative In-Depth Interview component of the SNAP Food Security (SNAPFS) study.