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Kenya Livestock Market Systems Activity: Final Sustainability Assessment Report
The Feed the Future Kenya Livestock Market Systems Activity (USAID's LMS) is a USAID-funded initiative aimed at enhancing resilience against shocks and stresses in Northern Kenya.
Kenya Livestock Markets Activity Sustainability of Outcomes Brief
The Kenya Livestock Market Systems Activity is a United States Agency for International Development (USAID)-funded program that is part of the Feed the Future initiative for addressing poverty, hunger, and malnutrition.
Case Study: Increased Economic Engagement Of Women In Northern Kenya’s Livestock Sector Through Grants
Deeply ingrained gender norms around livestock ownership and management have historically limited women's participation and decision-making in northern Kenya’s livestock sector, which has been traditionally dominated by men,
Case Study: Inclusive Design and Implementation of Grant Portfolio
USAID LMS had a specific objective of promoting gender equity and women's empowerment by supporting vulnerable women and girls in building incomes and social capital to enhance resilience to shocks.
Counseling, Informed Consent, and Debriefing for Cesarean Section in Nigeria
COUNSELING, INFORMED CONSENT, AND DEBRIEFING (CCD) are important aspects of respectful maternity care (RMC) and medical ethics. Cesarean section (CS) is one of the most performed surgical procedures in the world. RMC remains important even when maternity care becomes surgical.
Impact Assessment of Feed the Future Kenya Livestock Market Systems Activity on the Local Food System
The Feed, the Future Kenya Livestock Market Systems Activity was a Five-year (2017-2022) Activity with Leader and Associate Awards funded by USAID and managed in a consortium of ACDI/VOCA, Mercy Corps, and their partners.
Use of Dedicated Volunteer Community Mobilizers for Polio Eradication Program in Pastoralist, Hard to reach and Bordering part of Ethiopia
The surveillance intervention in Ethiopia has not adequately involved the community to be part of the surveillance system. The level of community sensitization and eventual detection and reporting of Acute Flaccid Paralysis (AFP) cases is minimal.
Leveraging the Polio Legacy for Global Health Security
Kenya and Ethiopia have robust programs. The CGPP-GHSA project works in six counties in Kenya and in 85 counties across five regions in Ethiopia. The CGPP project outperforms the strictly public sector polio alert system.
Côte d’Ivoire Family Planning Private Health Sector Assessment (English & French)
The SHOPS Plus project, in collaboration with USAID/Côte d’Ivoire, conducted an assessment of the family planning market and provided targeted recommendations to empower stakeholders to sustainably engage the private sector and help Côte d’Ivoire achieve its Family Planning 2020 targets. This brief highlights key findings and recommendations from the full assessment report.
Stories Without an Ending: An Adult Education Tool for Dialogue and Social Change (English & French)
The purpose of this guide is to help organizations involved in community programs to develop and use SWE. This innovative adult education tool can be used to actively engage community groups in discussion of issues of priority concern to them and/or to development programs and to catalyze discussion of those issues in the wider community.
Trends in Health Financing and the Private Health Sector in the Middle East and North Africa
To understand current health financing policies and mechanisms, as well as the current role of the private sector in the health systems of the Middle East, the USAID Middle East Regional Bureau commissioned the Sustaining Health Outcomes through the Private Sector (SHOPS) Plus and Health Finance and Governance (HFG) projects to conduct a review of health financing and the private health sector in the 11 low- and middle-income countries in the region, focusing on the years 2008 to 2017.
Tanzania Private Health Sector Lending
SHOPS Plus is supporting USAID Tanzania’s goals and is helping to address the lack of access to finance by working to strengthen the ability of private health providers to access and use financing.
Telemed Medical Services
Telemed was founded in 2012. Mission: design and implement systems that allow clients who seek health care in Ethiopia to receive affordable, reliable and immediate healt
Increasing the Use of ORS and Zinc through the Private Sector
In April 2011, USAID Kenya invited SHOPS to conduct a Total Market Assessment of diarrhea management practices. The assessment focused on identifying opportunities available through the private health sector, to increase access to and use of the recommended diarrhea treatment (ORS and zinc) by caregivers of children under 5.
Task Sharing Tubal Ligation Services with Health Officers in Ethiopia
Voluntary long-acting reversible contraception (LARC) methods and permanent methods are important family planning options. However, in many developing countries, a shortage of trained health providers presents a barrier to accessing these methods. Task sharing LARC and permanent method services with mid-level clinical providers can increase family planning access and choice.
Increasing Access to Maternal Health Services through Vouchers: The Uganda Healthy Baby Experience
Why a maternal health voucher in Uganda?
What Does the Informal Sector Know about Health Insurance?
Findings from a Survey Conducted in Nairobi, Kenya
Tebita Ambulance and Pre-Hospital Emergency Medical Services
The country’s highly fragmented emergency medical transport system means a complicated pregnancy can easily become a life-threatening situation for a woman trying to reach a hospital.