MEASURE Evaluation

2008–2013

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The MEASURE Evaluation project, which began in 1998, is USAID’s flagship Monitoring and Evaluation project and was established based on the premise that generating demand for and improving the use of data in policy formulation, program planning, monitoring and evaluation improves health systems which in turn affects health outcomes. The project is now in Phase III and is led by the University of North Carolina. In addition to MSH, the partners include Futures Group, JSI, Macro International , and Tulane University. MSH provides capacity building in the area of organization and leadership development to enhance sustainability using MSH’s virtual and other tools and also offers direct support to country M&E teams.

Knowledge for Health (K4H)

2008–2013

The Knowledge for Health (K4H) Project is funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) to help facilitate the development and dissemination of high quality health information products to a broad network of public health organizations supporting program managers and health service providers around the world. K4H is led by the Johns Hopkins Center for Communication Programs in collaboration with Family Health International (FHI) and MSH.

MSH’s involvement in the K4H project includes supporting the development of the K4H Network, a global community of health professionals intended to provide access to information, expertise, people, ideas, and opportunities for its members; contributing technical expertise on knowledge management and dissemination strategies of evidence-based tools and resources in public health; and providing advice on adapting technical information and disseminating best practices.

Through the Knowledge for Health (K4Health) Project, MSH is currently implementing a needs assessment study in Peru to determine how health information is used and shared among providers at all levels of the health system.  The purpose of the K4Health Project is to enhance family planning and reproductive health by building the Knowledge Management capacity of health professionals and health providers in focus countries.  The needs assessment protocol (methodology and instruments) has recently been approved by the local ethics board (IRB) in Peru. Data collection will begin in August 2010 and the results dissemination workshop will be held in September 2010.

Grant Management Solutions (GMS)

2007–2012

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The Grant Management Solutions (GMS) project was established by the US Government to provide urgent, short-term technical support to countries receiving grants from the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. GMS is a USAID-funded project managed by the Office of the Global AIDS Coordinator (OGAC). It is led by MSH with four partners. GMS assists in governance and leadership challenges; financial and grants management; procurement and supply management; monitoring, evaluation, and reporting; and improving the skills and participation of civil society organizations and local consultants. Through a small core staff that draws upon a large, evolving network of local, regional, and international consultants, GMS primarily works with Country Coordinating Mechanisms and Principal Recipients at country level. GMS is located within the Center for Leadership and Management.

As one of the GMS Dashboard Pilot countries, GMS worked with the Republic of Peru's CCM to develop a comprehensive grant oversight plan and use the dashboard technology to oversee Peru's give Global Fund grants.

Leadership, Management and Sustainability (LMS) Program

2005–2010

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The Leadership, Management and Sustainability (LMS) Program develops managers and leaders who achieve results in the areas of reproductive health, HIV & AIDS, infectious disease, and maternal and child health. LMS works with health organizations in the public and private sectors to create sustainable programs and systems through improved leadership and management. By strengthening management systems and increasing system-wide leadership, LMS improves the performance of health care organizations at all levels, develops human resources, and builds the capacity to anticipate and respond effectively to changing external environments.

The Healthy Communities & Municipalities (HCM) project aims to improve maternal and child health. The LMS program has worked with HCM since 2006, and is now working in 1,764 communities to foster behavior changes that will result in the improvement of social development indicators, women's health, and child health indicators with the following results: 

• More than 850 organizations in these communities are now applying leadership and management practices to health service delivery challenges.
  
• A total of 243 senior leaders have been trained in these areas, including 147 women. -More than 340 primary health centers have measured their quality of attention to child health, resulting in 45 improvement projects.
  
• More than 100 workshops have been held to train female community leaders and adolescents about family planning and their sexual and reproductive rights.
  
• 86% of communities participating in the program since 2006 have continuously applied a diagnostic tool to measure progress of key health indicators on a bi-annual basis.

Tuberculosis Control Assistance Program (TB CAP)

2005–2011

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The Tuberculosis Control Assistance Program (TBCAP) aims to decrease morbidity and mortality by increasing case detection and treatment success of pulmonary TB patients in USAID priority countries. TBCAP is USAID’s five year centrally funded project focusing on implementing WHO’s Stop TB strategy. MSH is one of eight partners, including KNCV Tuberculosis Foundation, WHO, The International Union Against Tuberculosis, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Family Health International, American Thoracic Society, and the Japanese Anti-Tuberculosis Association. TBCAP recently introduced the Management and Organizational Sustainability Tool (MOST) process it has adapted to the TB context. A meeting sponsored by TBCAP for personnel from National Tuberculosis Programs in Mozambique, Namibia, Uganda, Zambia, and Pakistan gave managers hands-on experience using MOST and allowed TBCAP to validate the instrument as adapted for TB. Within TBCAP, MSH makes a unique contribution for addressing constraints such as poor management and lack of sustainable leadership, weak laboratory services and failure of drug supplies, inconsistent drug quality and inadequate drug policies, lacking information systems, weak monitoring and evaluation, and overwhelmed health systems. Through core-funded activities, MSH contributes to TBCAP by aiding in the development and implementation of the International Standards for Tuberculosis Care TB control, guidelines for TB control in prisons, and institutional capacity building. MSH also provides workshops and training for lab consultants, human resource development strengthening, and multidrug resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) management. MSH is making important contributions as coordinating partner for Malawi, Ghana, and Souther Sudan for expanding quality DOTS and is currently collaborating in Cambodia, Ethiopia, Indonesia, Kenya, Mexico, Nigeria, Mozambique, Namibia, Pakistan. MSH provides technical assistance in Domincan Republic and Peru.

Technical assistance only in Peru.

Rational Pharmaceutical Management Plus Program

2000–2008

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MSH provided technical guidance and assists in strategy development and program implementation both in improving the availability of safe, effective health commodities of assured quality and cost—pharmaceuticals, laboratory diagnostics, vaccines, supplies, and basic medical equipment—and in promoting the appropriate use of these commodities in the public and private sectors at the community level, with special focus on managing pharmaceuticals essential for maternal, newborn, and child health.