HEART Talks
© Oxford Policy Management Vimal Kumar, principal consultant in the Oxford Policy Management Health team, discusses the importance of procurement and supply chain management in supporting effective policy reforms. Ensuring availability, affordability, and quality of commodities (for example medicines) to provide services to the patients is one of the key outcomes which procurement and supply chain management establishes. This… Read more
Based on the lessons that emerged from the UN Millennium Development Goals and the Education for All movement 2000–2015, there is now a global consensus that universal school enrolment is necessary but not sufficient for children to learn. This report captures what might be learnt from a selection of the world’s most interesting examples of technology-assisted in-service professional development in lower-income countries… Read more
ORIE research on WINNN consisted of operations research, a mixed-methods impact evaluation, economic evaluation, and gender analysis which were conducted over a period of five years. This report integrates findings from this research to provide a high-level summary of WINNN’s achievements along with an overview of the key messages and recommendations that emerge from research… Read more
This brief is produced by the Operations Research and Impact Evaluation (ORIE) project, led by Oxford Policy Management (OPM), and it summarises the learning about strengthening nutrition sector governance from the Working to Improve Nutrition in Northern Nigeria (WINNN) programme implemented in five states in northern Nigeria (Jigawa, Katsina, Kebbi, Zamfara and Yobe). Key messages… Read more
This brief is produced by the Operations Research and Impact Evaluation (ORIE) project, led by Oxford Policy Management (OPM), and it summarises the learning from the Working to Improve Nutrition in Northern Nigeria (WINNN) programme, a programme implemented in five states in northern Nigeria (Jigawa, Katsina, Kebbi, Zamfara and Yobe). Gender roles and relations can… Read more
This brief is produced by the Operations Research and Impact Evaluation (ORIE) project, led by Oxford Policy Management (OPM), and it summarises the learning from an intervention to improve micronutrient supplementation in five states in northern Nigeria (Jigawa, Katsina, Kebbi, Zamfara and Yobe) with the support of the Working to Improve Nutrition in Northern Nigeria… Read more
This brief is produced by the Operations Research and Impact Evaluation (ORIE) project, led by Oxford Policy Management (OPM), and it summarises the learning from an Improved infant and young child feeding (IYCF) intervention implemented in five states in northern Nigeria (Jigawa, Katsina, Kebbi, Zamfara and Yobe) with the support of the Working to Improve… Read more
This brief is produced by the Operations Research and Impact Evaluation (ORIE) project, led by Oxford Policy Management (OPM), and it summarises the learning from a Community management of acute malnutrition (CMAM) intervention implemented in northern Nigeria, with the support of the Working to Improve Nutrition in Northern Nigeria (WINNN) programme. Key messages Political support… Read more
ORIE research on WINNN consisted of operations research, a mixed-methods impact evaluation, economic evaluation, and gender analysis which were conducted over a period of five years. This report integrates findings from this research to provide a high-level summary of WINNN’s achievements along with an overview of the key messages and recommendations that emerge from research… Read more
This report presents the results of the quantitative impact evaluation of the WINNN programme, three years since the baseline study. Using a quasi-experimental approach combined with community-level qualitative research, the study evaluates the impact of the WINNN programme as a whole on nutritional behaviours, nutritional status and provision of nutrition services. Data was collected from… Read more
This report presents the results of the quantitative impact evaluation of the WINNN programme, three years since the baseline study. Using a quasi-experimental approach combined with community-level qualitative research, the study evaluates the impact of the WINNN programme as a whole on nutritional behaviours, nutritional status and provision of nutrition services. Data was collected from… Read more