With lots of Stata, Powerpoint, simultaneous translation, and expansive Kenyan scenery, Countdown to 2030 and our partners the Global Financing Facility (GFF) convened a group of more than 100 experts from across Africa to share best practices for analyzing health facility data and to conduct analysis in a collaborative setting....
Zimbabwe is part of the Eastern and Southern African country collaboration teams in Sub Saharan Africa under the Countdown to 2030. The nation’s team comprises the University of Zimbabwe, Ministry of Health and Child Care and Global Financing Facility and is actively involved in the Countdown to 2030 Phase III...
“We are very proud of you,” said Dr. Cheikh Faye, project director of Countdown to 2030 and head of the West African regional office for the African Population and Health Research Center, addressing the group of more than 185 researchers from 22 countries gathered for the project’s annual meeting in...
Uganda’s extensive work in monitoring progress in reproductive, maternal, newborn, child and adolescent health (RMNCAH) and other health services includes regular comprehensive annual health monitoring reports by the ministry of health, the district league table system to track local performance in place since 2003, and high-quality research by Makerere University....
To get a sense of what it’s like to attend a Countdown to 2030 analysis workshop, watch this short video: Since 2017 countdown to 2030 has organized nine virtual workshops and 17 in-person workshops with representatives from 65 countries. Footage was filmed during a workshop that took place in Nairobi...
Countdown to 2030 will expand the number of country collaborations, launch three multi-country analysis projects, and mentor African researchers within the Countdown network through a new fellowship program, as it enters a new funding phase for 2023-2026. The Countdown collaboration will continue its global monitoring, measurement and accountability work, such...
“We say, numbers don't lie,” reflected Charles Michelo, professor at the University of Zambia during a June 2022 dissemination event. “Yet numbers can be hidden. In hospitals, see how many files may be on the floor, inaccessible. This also may be true in our offices: we have the data, and...
This brief by Choolwe Jacobs of the University of Zambia and Brivine Sikapande from the Ministry of Health discusses how the Countdown collaboration has contributed to the culture of data use. “We say, numbers don’t lie,” reflected Charles Michelo, professor at the University of Zambia during a June 2022 dissemination...
Countdown 2030 and the Improve Project will hold a satellite session about effective coverage measurement at the Seventh Global Symposium on Health Systems Research (HSR 2022) in Bogotá, Colombia, on November 2 from 8:30 a.m. to 12 p.m. The session will be open to both in-person and virtual conference...
Health facility data typically have provided only the numerator for indicators of interest, which makes it difficult to interpret time trends. But it is possible to calculate denominators based on two methods: population projection estimates and service utilization. This article explains how to calculate denominators using population data, and a...
Resources to assess the quality of routine health facility data related to reproductive, maternal, newborn, child and adolescent health (RMNCAH) are now available, based on resources developed for a workshop hosted by Countdown and the Global Financing Facility (GFF) in Nairobi, Kenya, in June 2022 . Data from individual health...
The Countdown to 2030 collaboration in Burkina Faso includes the Institut Supérieur des Sciences de la Population (ISSP), the Global Financing Facility (GFF) Burkina Faso country office and Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health. It aims to strengthen country evidence and analytical capacity to inform national and subnational...
The Countdown to 2030 country collaboration in Uganda includes Makerere University, the Uganda Ministry of Health, the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, the Centre for Global Child Health at the Hospital for Sick Children, and the Institute for Global Health at the University of Manitoba. It aims to...
Countdown to 2030 works in Niger through the Global Financing Facility (GFF) in partnership with the National Institute of Statistics (INS), the Ministry of Health (MOH), UNFPA, UNICEF, WHO, GFF, and Johns Hopkins University. The GFF collaboration strengthens country evidence and analytical capacity to inform Niger’s annual and midterm reviews...
The countdown partnerships in Kenya is led by African Population and Health Research Center (APHRC) and the Kenya Medical Research Institute - Wellcome Trust Research Programme (KWTRP) as the lead research institution for the Kenya initiative. As the lead institution, KWTRP works closely with the Monitoring and Evaluation division in...