FHS partner Makerere University School of Public Health is undertaking a Community Score Cards study, which is contributing to research on how leaders can work with the community and health workers to improve maternal and newborn health in Kibuku District. The use of the Community Score Card tool – a two-way and ongoing participatory tool for assessment, planning, monitoring and evaluation - aims to improve the performance of facilities and accountability by the different stakeholders who are responsible for improving the performance of facilities.
We are pleased to share two new films, produced by MakSPH, highlighting the research undertaken in Kibuku using the Community Score Card tool.
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Future Health Systems research in Bangladesh and Uganda is assessing how community empowerment strategies can affect service delivery and community capabilities. In Uganda, FHS partner, Makerere University School of Public Health, has partnered with Kibuku District in Eastern Uganda to develop and test a community and facility score card for maternal and newborn health service delivery. The feasibility study aims at identifying facilitators, barriers and factors that could influence implementation, institutionalization and scale-up of community and facility score cards in Uganda.
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Three MANIFEST Progress Briefs and a MANIFEST Issues Brief have just been published by the Uganda Team of the Future Health Systems Research Consortium, and the preliminary findings show remarkable achievements across the three thematic focus areas/components of the study.
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According to the Uganda State of the Population Report (USPR) 2013, a 24 per cent teenage pregnancy rate among adolescents in a population of 35.4 million people should worry the Government of Uganda. In this commentary for the Daily Monitor in Uganda, Ayub Kakaire Kirunda asks: What can we do to stop the high number of teenage pregnancies in our community?
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When the Future Health Systems team at the Makerere University School of Public Health (MakSPH) approached Uganda’s Ministry of Health, with an idea of a symposium as part of the activities to commemorate the safe motherhood month held every year in October, it was not clear what to expect. But bingo, the idea was taken on board, seeing the United Nations Population Fund, the World Health Organisation, and Marie Stopes Uganda become co sponsors with MakSPH for the event now being planned to be held annually.
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In an OpEd in the nationally circulated Daily Monitor in Uganda, Kakaire Ayub Kirunda, FHS Uganda Communications Officer, publishes an open letter to the Inter-Parliamentary Union, who were meeting in Kampala earlier that week.
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