Countdown to 2030 Project Factsheet

Improving Monitoring and Measurement of Women’s, Children’s and Adolescents’ Health Countdown to 2030 started in 2003 as a multi-disciplinary, multi-institutional collaboration, in response to the challenge of the health-related Millennium Development Goals by 2015. At the time, it was known as Countdown to 2015. Countdown is a collaboration of academics...

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Data as a compass for guiding health policy: Niger Data Uptake

The Niger country collaboration has been successful at maintaining a long-running scientific collaboration, producing high-quality research for multiple audiences, and sharing this information with decisionmakers. Download the data uptake series in English  Download the data uptake series in French Niger is one of sub-Saharan Africa’s countries which has been repeatedly...

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Data Uptake Series: Strengthening monitoring and evaluation of programs in Uganda

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....

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Data Uptake Series: Zambia 2022

“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...

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Data Uptake Series: Pakistan 2020-2021

This brief summarizes describes how a report by the Countdown collaboration in Pakistan was used to build consensus around key priorities and generate change in policy and programs. Content of the brief is reprinted below: Development of the report Pakistan does not have an annual review of progress and performance...

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