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IEG Presented a panel to discuss findings of two evaluations, Towards Young Children Thriving: Addressing the Intersectoral Challenges to Child Development. Watch a Replay of the event

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Bright Starts, Sustained Results - What We've Learned from Following Beneficiaries of Early Childhood Interventions

ieg_admin — Tue, 05 Apr 2016 04:00:00 +0000

Bright Starts, Sustained Results - What We've Learned from Following Beneficiaries of Early Childhood Interventions ieg_admin Tue, 04/05/2016 - 00:00

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Hallelujah! A longitudinal study of #sustainedimpact! You refer to Guatemala 30 years later (bravo!). It is unclear how many years post-project you returned to evaluate the rest of your results. I would love to cite this on ValuingVoices.com cheers

Thanks for your enthusiasm, Jindra. The full report can be found here: http://ieg.worldbankgroup.org/Data/reports/ImpactsofInterventions_EarlyChildhoodonLaterOutcomes.pdf The central section of the systematic review documents findings for each of six outcome domains, and each one of those sections is preceded by a table that gives a description of each intervention that estimates a causal impact on that domain. Each of those descriptions gives information on the child's age at implementation and age at evaluation. That will tell you how many years elapsed to evaluate whether results were sustained. You might also enjoy the last section of the systematic review which has a detailed discussion of temporal trajectories--or how effects change over time. Good luck!

I appreciate the information especially on the emphasis that appropriate evaluation design lead to very credible eval results that provoke stakeholders to make evidence based, participatory and relevant decisions.email: mayiebanyenzaki@gmail.com.

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Reducing Maternal and Child Mortality - What does the evidence show?

ieg_admin — Wed, 09 Dec 2015 20:23:42 +0000

Reducing Maternal and Child Mortality - What does the evidence show? ieg_admin Wed, 12/09/2015 - 15:23

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It us strange how it needs an eminent group like IEG to confirm common-sense, not that some experts will listen. When it comes to development, poor people can sort themselves out, if allowed and given the means. In Cambodia, in its quest for all births to have only officially trained attendants, safe birth kits were withdrawn from indigenous traditional birth attendants, even though public service provision was - and remains - lacking and indigenous mothers were still wary of departing from tradition.

Maternal mortality rates reduction to below 70 per 100,000 live births is a monster barrier to developing countries whose GDP cant support the proposed 15% budget allocation. This leads to low health workforce; poor infrastructure which have direct impact to maternal health; over depedance to NGOs and other health partners too leads to lack of government sustainable plans; lack of active community partnership and community based myths to access of care affects that goal;lack of adequate access to safe water and nutrition to children and political instability in some countries is also a barrier to both MDG 4 and 5

I found it very useful!

we need to have specific targets to evaluate cutural relations between women and children before.

Maternal and Child health are essential for good health. Reducing merternal and Child mortality are indispensable needs. Our planners at MoH need to be more objective and clear on targets. The health care systems must be prepared for the task ahead and this can best be demonstrated through adequate resource mobulisation both financial and human resources. The parlimentarians should take keen interest to budgets from MoH and ensure that they are responsive to the ste targets.

Experiences from Tanzania have suggested that achievement of the maternal mortality and neonatal mortality targets will likely rely on the further strengthening of the decentralised district health system rather than simply the introduction of new interventions. The key elements or health system building blocks as set out in the WHO publication "Systems Thinking for Health System Strengthening", namely service delivery, health workforce, health information, medicines/vaccines/technologies, health financing and leadership/governance will all need to be addressed simultaneously in order to provide a robust health system capable of handling the introduction and efficient delivery of any additional interventions even if these have proved to be successful and cost-effective (think of Ebola experiences). Similarly the parallel improvement of the existing array of interventions currently being delivered by the public health system such as IMCI, HIV, TB, FP and vaccinations will progressively add to the "attractiveness" and awareness of any newly introduced MNCH interventions through higher attendance at "point-of delivery health facilities. To some extent therefore one might actually consider achievement of reduced maternal and child mortality as actual key indicators of robust health system achievement.

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INFOGRAPHIC: Early Childhood Interventions - Where are the Knowledge Gaps?

ieg_admin — Mon, 02 Nov 2015 20:00:24 +0000

INFOGRAPHIC: Impact of Interventions on Early Childhood Development Outcomes

ieg_admin — Mon, 02 Nov 2015 19:36:11 +0000

Mother and Child Health - Reaching 2015 Targets and Beyond

ieg_admin — Wed, 20 Nov 2013 17:44:30 +0000

Mother and Child Health - Reaching 2015 Targets and Beyond ieg_admin Wed, 11/20/2013 - 12:44

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Im a current graduate student a University of Southern California. Im working on my thesis which is focus on Improving Maternal Health and decreasing mortality in Nicaragua. Thanks to your blog I will be able to add some input to my thesis. Thank you (pvelazqu@usc.edu)

It is evident that investing in skilled health personnel alone can not significanlty contribute to reduction in Maternal deaths. What developing countries need is an intergarted approach and combined actions by all stakeholders. Not to forget is the change in attitude and quick action among health personnel. Recently, my sister in low collapsed immediately after giving birth because she had lost alot of blood. Hadnt it been for quick intervention and follow up, she would have left this world. Maternal death is real, we see it and read about it every day.

Joyce, thanks for reinforcing the important point that the findings of evaluation work -- such as the need for an integrated approach to MCH -- can make a direct contribution to improving the lives of our families, friends, and neighbors. Given the slow progress on some of the health MDGs, IEG is scaling up our work in this area -- you may be interested to look at the approach paper for an upcoming evaluation on health financing in improving health systems performance (https://ieg.worldbankgroup.org/Data/reports/AP_Health_financing_eval.pdf)