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Responsibility and Authority Mapping Process (RAMP)

Purpose:The Responsibility and Authority Mapping Process (RAMP) is a practical management method designed for policymakers and senior managers to help them identify those health management functions for which responsibility and management authority are most ambiguous.

Guidelines for Maternal Death Surveillance and Response (MDSR): Region of the Americas

Reducing preventable maternal mortality requires a surveillance system that systematically captures accurate, timely and disaggregated data on how many women die, where, why and when in the reproductive process.

Quality Assurance Manual

Purpose: The Quality Assurance Manual can be used by national, state or local level health institutions to evaluate the quality of health services at service delivery sites, to determine whether they meet predetermined quality standards in order to be accredited.Description: The Quality Assurance Manual is designed to help assure the delivery of quality health services to clients through a process

Cartillas: "Maternidad Segura" y "Salud Sexual y Reproductiva"

Los presentes módulos de capacitación fueron desarrollados para prestadores/as de servicios de consejería médica a mujeres en edad reproductiva, mujeres embarazadas y madres de niños/as menores de dos años. Los mismos abordan de forma integral y con un enfoque de derechos temas relevantes a la salud sexual y reproductiva y salud materna.

Clinic Supervisor's Manual

Purpose:The purpose of this manual is to provide a set of flexible, adaptable tools, and guidelines to support supervisors in their role of improving the quality of care in the clinics.

Performance Management Tool

Purpose:To provide the organization with a means of managing the performance of their staff through identifying critical performance objectives for all employees which are linked to the priority goals of the organization and reviewed on a specific time frame.Description:The Performance Management Tool consists of three complimentary parts: A Work Planning and Performance Review System, a guide for

Program Review of Nutrition Interventions: Checklist for District Health Services

Purpose:To collect information about priority nutrition activities to strengthen the nutrition components of primary health care programs at the district level.Description:This checklist is a tool to collect information about priority nutrition activities and to plan activities to strengthen the nutrition component in programs.

Managers Who Lead Toolkit—Resources to Support Managers Who Lead

Purpose: This toolkit provides managers and facilitators with exercises, tools, and guidelines to improve managers’ skills in leading and managing teams and strengthening individual and team performance to produce results.Description: This toolkit is part of Managers Who Lead: A Handbook for Improving Health Services.

MSH’s Organizational Synthesis of Capacity Assessments for Award Readiness (OSCAR)

Strengthening a country’s capacity to lead its own development is a cornerstone of the United States Government’s foreign assistance efforts. As a prerequisite to receiving direct funding assistance, donors, such as USAID, must assess an organization’s management and systems readiness for the responsible stewardship of funds.

QuanTB User's Guide and Installation Instructions

This page provides the QuanTB User's Guide and Installation Instructions.To learn more about QuanTB and download the software for Mac or PC, please visit the main QuanTB page.

Framework for Ebola Response and Recovery at the Local Level

The Framework is intended to support implementation of Ebola response plans at the local level.

Estándares de salud materna con enfoque intercultural (Intercultural Maternal Health Standards)

Hacia la mejora de la calidad de la atención materna para las mujeres indígenas de las Américas y la erradicación de la inequidad en salud, 2016Sólo disponible en españolEn América Latina y el Caribe la situación de salud de los pueblos indígenas, y particularmente de las mujeres, es una preocupación en el ámbito de la po

User's Guide on Planning and Managing a Quality Survey in Reproductive Health Programs

Purpose:The User’s Guide was prepared for two reasons:To document the experience and lessons of the Management Sciences for Health (MSH) Turkey program in implementing quality surveys, andTo provide other international health programs with detailed information to replicate similar surveys to improve performance and management of family planning (FP) and reproductive health (RH) programs.Desc

Sustaining Essential Health Care during COVID-19: A Toolkit for Local Leaders to Adapt Health Services in Low-Resource Settings

Sustaining Essential Health Care During Covid-19: A Toolkit for Local Leaders to Adapt Health Services in Low-Resource Settings assists leaders in responding to surging health care needs that threaten to overwhelm the system.

Buenas prácticas en prevención del embarazo adolescente: Herramienta para la sistematización de experiencias desde una perspectiva de buenas prácticas

El objetivo de este documento es guiar la sistematización de experiencias de prevención del embarazo adolescente tanto de los ministerios como de organizaciones de la sociedad civil bajo la óptica de "buenas prácticas".

Gender Transformative Supportive Supervision Framework and Technical Brief

This conceptual framework was designed to show the influence gender has on supervisor-provider relationships, and how this influence could be explored and addressed through programming and research.

Upgrading or Reinstalling QuanTB

This page provides instructions for upgrading or reinstalling the QuanTB software on Mac or PC.To learn more about QuanTB and download the software for Mac or PC, please visit the main QuanTB page.

Leadership During a Pandemic

This training guide and these tools were created as part of the USAID STOP AI project to help local leaders prepare their communities to respond to widespread disease outbreaks.Facilitator Guide (PDF, 4.8 MB)Pandemic Toolkit (PDF, 9.4 MB)Template Plan (PDF, 1.9 MB)Tool 2: Presentation: Understanding the Threat of an Influenza Pandemic (PPT, 1.5 MB)Tool 3: Health Impact Projection Tool (XLS, 1.2 MB

Governance Enhancement Course for Health Ministry Governance Leaders and Staff

This handbook facilitates the governance orientation and education for ministry of health officials. When used by facilitators in conjunction with the LMG Project’s guides and learning resources, participants will be able to master and apply the five practices of good governance in their organization, improving its performance.

Cultivating Accountability for Health Systems Strengthening

When accountability is strengthened, the opportunity for corruption diminishes, and beneficial outcomes of the health system, such as responsiveness, equity, and efficiency surge.

Metodología Muncipios y Comunidades Saludables

La metodología MCS se contiene una guía para los gerentes futuros de programas, lo que les enseña sobre el valor de promoción de la salud y proporciona instrucciones para su aplicación; así como las herramientas que se proporcionan a los gobiernos locales para que puedan equipar sus comunidades con herramientas para la vigilancia en salud y programas de de

Preventing Early Pregnancy and Poor Reproductive Outcomes: A Toolkit

Nearly 16 million girls ages 15-19 give birth annually, almost all of them in developing countries.

Setting a Shared Strategic Direction for Health Systems Strengthening

The leaders who govern determine an organization’s strategic direction and policies. They set the organization’s strategy in order to deliver on its mission, goals, and objectives. This guide explores how to set, and realize, shared strategic direction for organizations when working with stakeholders.

The Challenge Model

The Challenge Model is a simple learning tool for teams to use in the workplace to address real challenges and achieve results. Beginning with creating a shared vision, the Challenge Model creates motivation and commitment within teams enabling them to face their challenges and achieve results.

Advocating for Maternal Health: A Checklist for Private Sector Health Providers

Maternal health remains an urgent public health challenge for the global community.