Resources and Tools

Burkina Faso recognizes that meeting the health needs of its population requires improving the availability and capacities of its human resources for health. In 2015, the Ministry of Health (MOH) of Burkina Faso estimated the following density of providers: 18,000 …

From July 2017 through June 2018, Pathfinder International Burkina Faso and the Evidence to Action (E2A) Project collaborated with the Ministry of Health (MoH) and the Ecole Nationale de Santé Publique (National School of Public Health [ENSP]) to pilot Centres …

In 2017, the Ministry of Health and Public Hygiene (MSHP) of Côte d’Ivoire initiated the institutionalization of immediate postpartum family planning (IPPFP) following promising results of a first ever IPPFP intervention implemented at the Treichville University Hospital. MSHP took steps …

Between September 2018 and July 2019, Pathfinder International’s Evidence to Action (E2A) Project, with support from USAID and in close collaboration with IntraHealth International’s Neema Project, supported Senegal’s Ministry of Health and Social Action (MSAS) to implement and plan for …

Between 2014 and 2018, with funding from USAID, the Evidence to Action (E2A) Project supported the Ministry of Health (MOH) of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) to scale up successful pilot interventions that provided integrated community-based family planning …

Human resource shortages in the health services are widely recognized as a threat to the attainment of the health-related sustainable development goals (SDGs), including reduction of maternal mortality. A more rational distribution of tasks and responsibilities among health worker cadres …

In Nigeria, a shortage in human resources for health—fewer than two nurses and doctors per 1,000 people, with a notable lack of skilled birth attendants—contributes to poor health and development outcomes. In 2014, recognizing the potential to mitigate the impact …

By focusing on what works, we can create the conditions for high-impact family planning programs for generations to come. Start here—with a selection of tools and resources from the E2A Project.

While the importance of pursuing integrated population, health and environment (PHE) approaches and ensuring their sustainable expansion to regional and national levels have been widely affirmed in the development field, little practical experience and evidence exist about how this can …

This paper shows how this new approach is being applied and the initial lessons from its use in the Health of People and Environment in the Lake Victoria Basin Project currently underway in Uganda and Kenya.