This is the Health Working Group session of the Scaling Community of Practice's 2023 Annual Workshop. During this session, a panel of senior leaders working in the technical areas of Malaria, HIV/AIDS, Child Health and Family Planning provide observations and insights on how their fields view scaling up, including the major paradigms, frameworks and approaches that have been used to scale up effective interventions. The moderator then facilitates a discussion among the panelists to elicit common themes and contrasting perspectives ...
Speakers: David Leege, Senior Director, Impact, Learning, Knowledge and Accountability at CARE Callie Simon, Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health Team Lead and Senior Advisor at Save the Children US Olayinka Umar-Farouk, Deputy Project Director, Risk Communications at Johns Hopkins Center for Communication Programs Moderator: Rebecka Lundgren, Associate Professor, Center for Gender Equity and Health at University of California San Diego Introduction: Laura Ghiron, President of Partners in Expanding Health Quality and Access, Co-Chair of the Health Technical Working Group ...
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By Richard Kohl (richardkohl@strategyandscale.com ) and Tom Feeny (tfeeny@r4d.org). Results for Development (R4D) is implementing a project funded by Grand Challenges Canada (GCC) (1) to better understand and catalyze demand for, and scale-up of, health innovations by public sector actors in developing countries, and (2) to identify what GCC (and other donors) can do to encourage public sector scaling. The project began in June 2020 and has recently completed a first draft of a landscape analysis. It is currently being ...
By Evidence Action, February 2019 Evidence Action’s Deworm the World Initiative employs a cost-effective, evidence-based, and sustainable approach to scaling school-based deworming programs that treat schistosomiasis and soil-transmitted helminths (STH) in school-age children. Deworm the World’s partnership model includes 7 critical areas of support to governments which enables rapid and sustainable scale-up through leveraging existing education and health infrastructure. The initiative supports government programs that treat over 260 million children annually, with strong collaboration resulting in successful implementation across 6 ...
By Feven Mekuria Feventassaw.Mekuria@care.org and Ryan Derni Ryan.Derni@care.org To meet the unique needs of married adolescent girls in rural Ethiopia and address the gap in global programming for this population, CARE created the TESFA program in 2010. TESFA – ‘hope’ in Amharic – sought to mitigate the harmful effects of child marriage by creating opportunities for girls to engage in economic activities, learn sexual reproductive health knowledge, and improve their communication and negotiation skills through peer-based solidarity groups. Recognizing that ...
