James F. Phillips

TL;DR: This paper reviews the development of the CHPS initiative, the processes of implementation and relates the initiative to the principles of scaling up organizational change which it embraces, and evidence from the national monitoring and evaluation programme provides insights into CHPS' success and identifies constraints on future progress.

TL;DR: Evidence suggests that newly introduced family planning services and contraceptive availability can activate tension in gender relations, and focus-group discussions with men and women highlight the strains on gender relations resulting from contraceptive use.

TL;DR: Through rigorous process and impact evaluation, the experience of the PHIT teams hope to contribute to the evidence base in the areas of HIS strengthening, linking data with decision making, and its impact on measures of health system outputs and impact.

TL;DR: The authors in this paper reviewed social and economic changes and their possible links to reduced demand or need for children, focusing on shifts to consideration of the role of the family planning program in reducing fertility.

TL;DR: The Tanzania Connect Project is a randomized cluster trial located in three rural districts with a population of roughly 360,000 and aims to test whether introducing a community health worker into a general program of health systems strengthening and referral improvement will reduce child mortality, improve access to services, expand utilization, and alter reproductive, maternal, newborn and child health seeking behavior.