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School Health and Nutrition: Reach and Relevance for Adolescents

This brief summarizes the benefits to adolescent health and human capital formation that accrue from investments in health and nutrition interventions delivered through schools, with a focus on low- and middle-income countries. Ten interventions are covered across two intervention areas: Physical health and nutrition services Schools as health-promoting environments, including infrastructure investments.

March 24, 2022

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Positioning Nutrition with Universal Health Coverage : Optimizing Health Financing Levers

Achieving universal health coverage (UHC) is a top global priority, and nutrition actions are a critical part of meeting that goal. When delivered within key windows of opportunity to improve health throughout the life-course, essential nutrition actions play an important role in reducing the burden of disease and preventing permanent physical and cognitive impairments, ultimately […]

January 31, 2022

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Policy Brief - Evolution of Results-based Financing in Zimbabwe  

This policy brief  describes how Zimbabwe’s Results-Based Financing model is evolving toward institutionalization.

December 7, 2021

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Policy Brief - Governance: Institutionalization of Results-based Financing in Zimbabwe 

This brief discusses the evolution of RBF governance mechanisms that resulted in institutionalization of RBF in the Ministry of Health and Child Care and Government of Zimbabwe structures. The brief discusses the (i) evolution of governance institutional arrangements; (ii) implications of RBF governance institutionalization on pre-existing institutional arrangements, roles, and responsibilities at centralized and decentralized […]

December 7, 2021

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Performance-Based Financing Mainstreaming: Assessment Questions

This document proposes questions to assess how a current environment can support Performance-Based Financing mainstreaming.  These questions focus on  autonomy and flexibility of spending, financial management capacity, unified payment system, performance orientation and verification, and the role played by different actors within a public financial management system.

November 23, 2021

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Health System Level Approaches to Addressing Quality of Care in Low- and Middle- Income Countries

This report serves as a discussion paper, and does not mean to be a thorough review of different health systems apporaches to quality of care. Instead, it aims to provide evidence of key approaches in order to foster discussion on quality improvement in low- and middle-income countries using health system level interventions that could supplement facility-based RBF […]

November 22, 2021

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Kyrgyz Republic: Using MamaNatalie and NeoNatalie Anatomical Models to Improve Knowledge and Skills among Maternal and Neonatal Health Workers

This Knowledge Brief focuses on describing how simulation-based training was used to bridge the gap between theoretical knowledge and clinical skills/experience to improve the quality of maternal and neonatal care in the Kyrgyz Republic.

November 19, 2021