Research work at within Resyst in Kenya focused on the perceptions and experiences of the people living in poverty with health financing policies that target them. These include free maternity services, user fee removal in public primary health care facilities, and the Health Insurance Subsidy Program (HISP) for the poor. Preliminary findings showed that one […]
Empirical research
We are supporting HERDi, Nepal to understand gender and intersectionality issues in relation to their urban health project. Their work to-date has highlighted the challenges facing the predominantly female health workforce (limited opportunities for training and career development, poor supervision and monitoring) and the limitations of innovations (such as in m-health) to reach these often-forgotten […]
Community Score Cards have been recognized as an important mechanism for accountability, transparency and quality adherence. Community Score Cards engage communities to assess the quality of services provided and as a tool for advocacy. They can be used to collect feedback form service users and improve communication between service providers and the communities. In both […]
In the Resyst gender and leadership study, they explored the gendered career and leadership experiences of senior healthcare managers in Kenya, Nigeria and South Africa to provide insights for leadership development and supportive organisational processes and structures. An emergent theme in the initial analyses and country specific papers was intersectionality: how gender intersects with other […]
There has been an investment in community health workers in Sierra Leone and there is policy interest in strategies to sustain this critical interface cadre following initial donor investment. With RinGs support ReBUILD is conducting research on identifying how the community health worker cadre can be better supported to play an effective and long term […]