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Sustainable Health Programming in Nigeria: Insights from Sentinel Indicator Monitoring As part of the Nigeria HPN Multi-Activity Evaluation in 2021-2022, D4I conducted an assessment to explore how the four HPN activities are contributing to the sustainability of health systems and health outcomes in Nigeria.
Strengthening Gender Competency in Family Planning: Insights from Ghana on Effective Online Training Models and Tools for Providers On Wednesday, August 7, 2024, D4I hosted a webinar about strengthening gender competency in family planning (FP) that included insights on effective online training models and tools for providers.
Enhancing Private Sector Engagement: Introducing the Private Sector Engagement Self-Assessment Monitoring Tool On Tuesday, August 6, 2024, D4I hosted a webinar introducing the new Private Sector Engagement (PSE) Self-Assessment Monitoring (SAM) Tool.
Strengthening Diverse Capacities through Diverse Approaches at Partner Universities Data for Impact (D4I), funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), supports countries to generate and use high-quality data to improve their programs, policies, and—ultimately—health outcomes. D4I also strengthens the technical and organizational capacity of local organizations and actors to collect, analyze, and use data to support their sustainable development. One successful approach D4I has adopted involved capacity strengthening of universities in Armenia and Moldova, Bangladesh, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Ethiopia, and Malawi.
From Intentions to Actions – Using Commitment Devices for Evidence Use How can we get people to use evidence more in health programming? D4I recently tried something a little different—using ‘commitment devices’ or tools to lock people into accomplishing a goal. Here’s what we learned.
From Policy to Practice: Navigating Localization and Equitable Partnerships in Global Health On Wednesday, June 26, 2024, D4I hosted the 4th webinar in a series on localization in monitoring, evaluation, research, and learning (MERL). This webinar included a panel discussion about navigating localization and equitable partnerships in global health.
High Impact Practices (HIPs) Webinar Series This two-part HIPs webinar series was was hosted by FHI 360 through the R4S and SMART-HIPS projects, in collaboration with a range of partners in May and July 2024.
Institutionalization of Social Work M&E Courses in Moldova and Armenia D4I has implemented small grants with institutions in Moldova and Armenia to develop pre- and in-service monitoring and evaluation (M&E) training within their social work curricula, with the goal of strengthening the social service workforce’s capacity to generate and use evidence for decision-making.
The battle against indirect maternal mortality (Op-Ed) Uncovering the differential burdens and dissecting the root causes and systemic failures that have resulted in the often overlooked issue of indirect maternal deaths