Acknowledgements: with thanks to contributors Jennifer Armitage and Adesoji Ologun About High Impact Clients Kiran, a 22-year-old woman is 5 months pregnant and lives in Balochistan province in Pakistan. The province is the least populated with approximately 5% of the total population and is mostly isolated because if its mountainous and arid terrain[1]. She lives […]

Acknowledgements: with thanks to project contributors Gulden Bayaz (LAMP Development) and Shweta George (S4P) Overview of S4P The Skills for Prosperity (S4P) is a UK Aid-funded programme supporting education and skills development across Brazil, Egypt, Kenya, Indonesia, Malaysia, Mexico, Nigeria, South Africa and the Philippines. S4P works to increase capacity for inclusive economic growth due […]

Itad and LAMP Development were commissioned by Global Fund to conduct a mapping exercise to inform how the Global Fund can align and harmonise health systems strengthening efforts with national priorities. Here we share the benefits and lessons from such a mapping exercise.

In 2017, LAMP conducted one of the first social return on investment (SROI) studies on the digitisation of health systems. In partnership with E4A-MamaYe, LAMP sought to assess the value of the early stages of the digitisation of the maternal, perinatal death surveillance and review (MPDSR) system in Lagos, Nigeria. With approximately 555 maternal deaths per 100,000 live births per year in Lagos, the MPDSR system is vital to helping facilities and state health authorities understand the underlying factors contributing to maternal death and act to prevent similar deaths happening in the future. It is critical to ensure that digitisation supports this and the SROI study aimed to provide insights into how the process was working and make recommendations for future roll-out.