Projects
RinGs projects fall into five main categories empirical research, capacity development, synthesising research, small grants, and consultancy.
Lead researcher: Richard Mangwi – Makerere University, School of Public Health, Uganda Globally, 298,000 women die due to pregnancy-related causes each year and half of these occur in Africa. In Uganda, maternal mortality has marginally reduced from 526/100,000 to 435/100,000 live births between 2001 and 2011. The presence of a skilled attendant during the entire continuum of care for maternal and new born health […]
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 […]
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 […]
The COMDIS-HSD partners in Pakistan, Bangladesh, Swaziland and the Malaria Consortium are part of an action-learning set for researchers from all partners to enable members to address gender and intersectionality throughout all stages of the research cycle in their projects, from designing the public health interventions, developing interview guides and quantitative and qualitative anlysis process. […]
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 […]
Worldwide, approximately 670 million people are visually impaired, among whom 269 million suffer from low vision and 45 million are blind. Nearly 90% of these people live in low- and middle-income countries (WHO 2014). With increases in life expectancy and population, the share of age-related non-communicable visual impairments within these regions continues to rise. India alone has almost 22% of the world’s visually-impaired population, while the country […]
RinGs held a competitive call among our three RPCs – Future Health Systems, ReBUILD and RESYST – to submit proposals for small research grants on gender, ethics and health systems issues relevant to low and middle-income countries (LMICs). We used the results of this research to put together a Case Study Reader which is a good introduction to gender analysis in health systems […]