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As part of our rigorous process, Metrics for Management writes and publicly shares a variety of technical reports, journal articles, and mass media communications. Please find a list of publications, articles, literature reviews, feature stories, and more below.
| Image | Title | Summary | Metric | Resource | Date | hf:tax:country | hf:tax:resource_type | hf:tax:table_metric |
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 | Measuring child protection advocacy reach: Development of an Advocacy Reach Calculator | This discussion paper presents the development and pilot testing of the Advocacy Reach Calculator—an innovative tool designed by M4M for ChildFund International to estimate how many children and family members are reached through the approval and implementation of child protection legislation. | Advocacy Reach Calculator, Donor Impact | Articles & Reports | February 19, 2026 | articles | advocacy-reach-calculator donor-impact | |
 | Raising the Bar: A2IE Updates to Reflect New Global Poverty Standards | The Asset to Income Estimator (A2IE) has been updated to reflect the World Bank’s new International Poverty Line of $3.00 per day (2021 PPP), a 40% increase from the previous threshold of $2.15. The A2IE update ensures your work remains aligned with the latest and most rigorous global data. | A2IE, Family Planning Quality, Health impact, Maternal Health Quality | News | October 15, 2025 | news | a2ie family-planning-quality health-impact maternal-health-quality | |
 | Evaluation of Partners for a Malaria-Free Zambia (PMFZ) | The Partners for a Malaria-Free Zambia (PMFZ) project aimed to reduce malaria cases in ten target districts in two provinces in Zambia by training and supporting community health workers (CHWs) to extend malaria diagnosis and treatment to last-mile communities, and to strengthen routine data reporting. | PMFZ | Stories & Case Studies | September 25, 2025 | zambia | stories-case-studies | pmfz |
 | Abortion Care Quality Tool (ACQTool) | High-quality abortion care is fundamental to reproductive autonomy, health, and human rights. | ACQTool | Stories & Case Studies | September 25, 2025 | argentina bangladesh ethiopia nigeria | stories-case-studies | abortion-care-quality-tool |
 | Data Management with DKT International | DKT International is the world’s largest social marketing organization for sexual and reproductive health. | DKT | Stories & Case Studies | September 25, 2025 | global | stories-case-studies | dkt |
 | EquityTool & the International Rescue Committee (IRC) | While research has demonstrated the effectiveness of cash transfers to improve economic welfare, limited work has been done to improve the operational efficiency of programs. | EquityTool | Stories & Case Studies | September 25, 2025 | pakistan | stories-case-studies | equitytool |
 | Evaluation of the Public Sector Strengthening Initiative in Ghana | MSI Reproductive Choices undertook a 5-year training and supportive supervision initiative in Ghana to strengthen the ability of public sector health workers to provide high quality long acting reversible contraception. | Health impact | Stories & Case Studies | September 25, 2025 | ghana | stories-case-studies | health-impact |
 | Indicator Compendium Development | The Rotary Foundation (TRF) set out to articulate its collective impact across six Rotary areas of focus — water, sanitation, and hygiene; environment; basic education and learning; global health; peacebuilding and conflict prevention; and community economic development. | TRF | Stories & Case Studies | September 25, 2025 | global | stories-case-studies | trf |
 | Advocacy Reach Calculator | In 2021, ChildFund International launched the organization’s 2030 strategy, Growing Connections. ChildFund’s ambitious plan is to reach 100 million children and family members annually and to support children in growing up healthy, educated, skilled, and safe. | Health impact | Stories & Case Studies | September 25, 2025 | global | stories-case-studies | health-impact |
 | EquityTool: Wealth & Women’s Preferences | Contraceptive use globally remains inequitable, with women and girls from lower wealth quintiles far less likely to use modern contraception than their wealthier counterparts. | EquityTool | Stories & Case Studies | September 25, 2025 | malawi | stories-case-studies | equitytool |
 | EquityTool: Wealth Assessment in Malawi | More than 50% of the population in Malawi lives below the national poverty line; 25% live in extreme poverty. Malawians face challenges in accessing health care, further exacerbated by gender inequalities and disabilities. | EquityTool | Stories & Case Studies | September 25, 2025 | malawi | stories-case-studies | equitytool |
 | EquityTool: Uganda Sanitation for Health Activity | Poor sanitation poses significant and ongoing threats to health and nutrition in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). In Uganda, inadequate access to sanitation results in an annual economic cost, in lost productivity and medical costs, equivalent to US$ 177 million. | EquityTool | Stories & Case Studies | September 25, 2025 | uganda | stories-case-studies | equitytool |
 | Updated Malaria Indicators and Data Framework | Between 2000–2015, comprehensive efforts to combat malaria resulted in declines in both incidences and mortality worldwide. From increased funding to decreased costs for essential interventions, such as long-lasting insecticidal nets and lower-priced drugs, global cases and mortality rates fell by 37% and 60%, respectively, saving an estimated 6.2 million lives in sub-Saharan Africa alone. | Health impact | Stories & Case Studies | September 25, 2025 | global | stories-case-studies | health-impact |
 | Improving PatientSubsidy Targetingand Donor Impact | While the private health sector in Afghanistan could improve access to affordable healthcare for urban populations, high user fees and medical costs are significant barriers to care. | Donor Impact | Stories & Case Studies | September 25, 2025 | afghanistan | stories-case-studies | donor-impact |
 | Measuring Youth Sexual & Reproductive Health Services | Despite global commitments to improve youth access to sexual and reproductive health (SRH) services, young people continue to have greater unmet SRH needs than older clients. | MY SRH | Stories & Case Studies | September 25, 2025 | global | stories-case-studies | measuring-youth-sexual-and-reproductive-health-services |
 | Measuring the Experience of Care | The United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), among other priorities, specifically set universal high-quality healthcare services as a global aim. | SDGs | Stories & Case Studies | September 25, 2025 | global | stories-case-studies | sdgs |
 | EquityTool: Cutaneous Leishmaniasis Humanitarian Project | The World Health Organization estimates that 600,000 to 1 million new cases of cutaneous leishmaniasis (CL) — a skin infection caused by sand fly bites — occur worldwide each year. | EquityTool | Stories & Case Studies | September 25, 2025 | ethiopia | stories-case-studies | equitytool |
 | Lives Transformed Assessment (LTA) | Project Concern International (PCI) —now Global Communities — originally created the Lives Changed Indices (LCI) to measure the transformation of people’s lives across the organization’s programming globally. | LTA | Stories & Case Studies | September 25, 2025 | guatemala india malawi pilot united-states | stories-case-studies | lta |
 | Maternal & Neonatal Healthcare Quality Measurement | Quality of maternal and neonatal healthcare is markedly poor in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) globally, with significant variation across facilities. | Maternal Health Quality | Stories & Case Studies | September 25, 2025 | bangladesh | stories-case-studies | maternal-health-quality |
 | Asset to Income Estimator (A2IE) | Assessing and comparing wealth across populations poses many challenges. Measurement of relative wealth is a method commonly used to compare wealth of individuals within a country or across a specific population, assigning individuals into quintiles based on assets owned. | Income Estimator | Stories & Case Studies | September 25, 2025 | global | stories-case-studies | income-estimator |
 | Method Information Index (MII) | Access to effective, affordable family planning services and products is fundamental to reproductive autonomy, health, and human rights. | Information Index | Stories & Case Studies | September 25, 2025 | pakistan uganda | stories-case-studies | information-index |
 | Method Information Index – Mexico | Access to effective, affordable family planning services and products is fundamental to reproductive autonomy, health, and human rights. | Information Index | Stories & Case Studies | September 25, 2025 | mexico | stories-case-studies | information-index |
 | Contraceptive MarketSize Visualizer (CMSV) | In today’s competitive market, success in the family planning sector requires innovative approaches that inform policy, optimize funding, and maximize impact. | CMSV | Stories & Case Studies | September 25, 2025 | global | stories-case-studies | cmsv |
 | Person Centered Maternity Care | Unacceptably high maternal mortality remains a challenge in many low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). | Maternal Health Quality | Stories & Case Studies | September 25, 2025 | ghana india kenya | stories-case-studies | maternal-health-quality |
 | Frontier Health Markets (FHM) Engage Willingness-to-Pay Study – Ghana | A willingness-to-pay study of contraceptive users in Ghana's private sector. Exploring consumer price sensitivity for oral contraceptives and injectables. | Family Planning Quality | Articles & Reports | July 8, 2025 | ghana | articles | family-planning-quality |
 | A Heartfelt Tribute to USAID’s Global Health Impact | As USAID winds down many of its global health programs, Metrics for Management expresses deep gratitude for its decades of lifesaving work. From fighting malaria and expanding family planning to transforming the HIV/AIDS response, USAID's legacy will continue to save lives and uplift communities for generations to come. | Family Planning Quality, Health impact, Maternal Health Quality | News | July 1, 2025 | news | family-planning-quality health-impact maternal-health-quality | |
 | Empowering Family Planning with Data‑Driven Insights | The Contraceptive Market Size Visualizer (CMSV) is an interactive tool designed to meet the needs of public sector leaders, donors, NGOs, and researchers in understanding the modern contraceptive landscape at national and sub-national levels. By providing contextualized market intelligence for stakeholders, the CMSV helps users to make better program planning, resource allocation, and market-shapi | CMSV | Stories & Case Studies | May 9, 2025 | stories-case-studies | cmsv | |
 | Driving Business Growth in Family Planning with Data-Driven Business Analytics | The Contraceptive Market Size Visualizer (CMSV) is an interactive tool tailored for private sector stakeholders. Whether you’re a pharmaceutical company, a social marketer, or a commercial organization, CMSV delivers the market intelligence you need to identify opportunities, refine product strategies, and gain a competitive edge. | CMSV | Stories & Case Studies | May 9, 2025 | stories-case-studies | cmsv | |
 | EquityTool assessment sheds light on a sanitation projects’ customer profile, and informed rationale for implementing subsidies | Non-profit research and development organization works to increase the reach of their sanitation services in underserved populations in urban Haiti, and uses the EquityTool to better understand both their current clientele and unmet need in their market. | EquityTool | Stories & Case Studies | April 24, 2025 | stories-case-studies | equitytool | |
 | Improving Patient Subsidy Targeting in Afghanistan to Ensure Greatest Impact on Donor Funding | The USAID-funded Local Health System Sustainability (LHSS) project, implemented in Afghanistan by Abt Global, assessed equity measures on the ground, to find a practical tool to improve targeting of donor funding to those who need it most. | EquityTool | Stories & Case Studies | April 24, 2025 | stories-case-studies | equitytool | |
 | Linking Geospatial and Equity Trends to Improve Interventions for Diseases of Poverty | Researchers on the Cutaneous Leishmaniasis Humanitarian Project in Ethiopia partner with DevAxle Nigeria to enhance risk and needs assessment through integrated GIS and EquityTool analysis. | EquityTool | Stories & Case Studies | April 24, 2025 | stories-case-studies | equitytool | |
 | EquityTool assessment for the identification of influences on use of modern contraceptives | University of Ghana researchers conduct a baseline survey on the efficacy of the National Health Insurance Scheme in removing cost as a barrier to modern contraceptive access. | EquityTool | Stories & Case Studies | April 24, 2025 | stories-case-studies | equitytool | |
 | Supporting Contraceptive Development with Pre-Trial User Preference Testing | Population Services International researchers employ the EquityTool to determine how wealth status affects women’s preferences for innovative contraceptive options in Malawi. | EquityTool | Stories & Case Studies | April 24, 2025 | stories-case-studies | equitytool | |
 | Evaluation of immediate and sustained effects of transitioning quality long-acting reversible contraceptives (LARCs) services to public sector health facilities in Ghana: a pre-post intervention study | M4M evaluated a five-year MSI program in Ghana that transitioned long-acting reversible contraceptive (LARC) services from a mobile outreach model to public health facilities, finding improvements in provider capacity and service provision but highlighting challenges in sustaining access—particularly for IUDs—after the intervention ended | Family Planning Quality Health Impact Sustainability | Articles & Reports | March 20, 2025 | ghana | articles | family-planning-quality-health-impact-sustainability |
 | M4M Secures Global Grand Challenges Grant to Enhance Women’s Health Care Copy | Metrics for Management (M4M) is delighted to have been selected for a grant by the Global Grand Challenges, a highly competitive, global competition seeking solutions to big problems. | Family Planning Quality, Health impact, Maternal Health Quality | News | December 16, 2024 | news | family-planning-quality health-impact maternal-health-quality | |
 | Frontier Health Markets (FHM) Engage Market Sizing Report – Kenya | An Innovative Approach to Identify Family Planning Market Opportunities by Measuring and Visualizing Submarket Size in Kenya | CMSV | Articles & Reports | November 11, 2024 | kenya | articles | cmsv |
 | DKT and Data Management Case Study | When reproductive health leader DKT International (DKT) decided to rethink how they aggregate, interpret, and disseminate their data, they turned to one organization to help. As a non-profit specializing in the development and implementation of data insights and use solutions for global health and development programs, M4M was well known to DKT’s executive leadership. | Family Planning Quality | Stories & Case Studies | November 6, 2024 | stories-case-studies | family-planning-quality | |
 | Assessing the Generalizability of Client Experience Measurement Tools in Low- and Middle-Income Countries | The experiences of people who interact with a health system form a key component of overall quality of care in that system. Yet, client experience is rarely reflected in how health systems are designed and assessed. To make meaningful progress on delivering high quality patient-centered care, health systems actors need valid measures of client experience of care. | Health impact | Articles & Reports | November 6, 2024 | articles | health-impact | |
 | Frontier Health Markets (FHM) Engage Market Sizing Report – Ghana | An Innovative Approach to Identify Family Planning Market Opportunities by Measuring and Visualizing Submarket Size in Ghana | CMSV | Articles & Reports | October 25, 2024 | ghana | articles | cmsv |
 | 100 days at the helm | 100 days at the helm | Family Planning Quality, Health impact, Maternal Health Quality, Socioeconomic equity, Sustainability | News | September 2, 2024 | news | family-planning-quality health-impact maternal-health-quality socioeconomic-equity sustainability | |
 | Press Release: M4M to support the Global Fund to Establish a Responsive, User-Centered Indicator Framework to Combat Malaria | Metrics for Management (M4M) is pleased to announce the launch of a new initiative to fight malaria. The initiative, made possible by a generous grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. | Family Planning Quality, Health impact, Maternal Health Quality | News | July 16, 2024 | news | family-planning-quality health-impact maternal-health-quality | |
 | Press Release: M4M celebrates a decade of success, and ushers in a new era with Nirali Chakraborty as CEO | Metrics for Management (M4M), a leader in evidence-based and standardized performance measures for global health, is proud to announce its 10th anniversary and the appointment of Dr. Nirali Chakraborty as its new Chief Executive Officer. | Family Planning Quality, Maternal Health Quality | News, Press | May 17, 2024 | news press | family-planning-quality maternal-health-quality | |
 | Frontier Health Markets (FHM) Engage Market Sizing Report – Nepal | An Innovative Approach to Identify Family Planning Market Opportunities by Measuring and Visualizing Submarket Size in Nepal | CMSV | Articles & Reports | February 15, 2024 | nepal | articles | cmsv |
 | M4M Mexfam MII Estudio De Caso (Spanish) | El equipo de investigación evalúa la viabilidad y utilidad de un sistema de retroalimentación automatizado sobre la calidad de la información proporcionada a los clientes de asesoría en planificación familiar en entornos clínicos en la Ciudad de México. | Family Planning Quality | Stories & Case Studies | January 25, 2024 | mexico | stories-case-studies | family-planning-quality |
 | M4M Mexfam MII Case Study (English) | Researchers assess the feasibility and utility of an automated feedback system on quality of information provided to family planning counseling clients in clinical settings in Mexico City. | Family Planning Quality | Stories & Case Studies | January 25, 2024 | mexico | stories-case-studies | family-planning-quality |
 | Developing and validating an abortion care quality metric for facility and out-of-facility settings | Despite progress in assuring provision of safe abortion, substantial disparities remain in quality of abortion care around the world. However, no consistent, valid, reliable method exists to routinely measure quality in abortion care across facility and out-of-facility settings, impeding learning and improvement. | ACQTool | Articles & Reports | December 6, 2023 | articles | abortion-care-quality-tool | |
 | Findings from the Evaluation of the Partners for a Malaria-Free Zambia Program of Scale | The Partners for a Malaria-Free Zambia (PMFZ) program, led by The Rotary Foundation, successfully implemented an iCCM+ intervention in underserved districts of Zambia to reduce malaria cases and deaths, particularly among pregnant women and children under 5, through community-based testing and treatment. The evaluation highlights the program's effectiveness, drivers of success, scalability potenti | Health impact, Sustainability | Articles & Reports | November 24, 2023 | zambia | articles | health-impact sustainability |
 | Addressing Provider Bias for Better Youth Healthcare | Metrics for Management and EngenderHealth work to improve health systems and services so individuals can choose and access the healthcare they need. | ACQTool, Family Planning Quality | Stories & Case Studies | November 14, 2023 | stories-case-studies | abortion-care-quality-tool family-planning-quality | |
 | Using the Abortion Care Quality Tool (ACQTool) to understand and compare abortion care quality | Researchers use a newly developed tool to compare the quality in facility-managed and pharmacy-sourced self-managed medication abortions in Bangladesh | ACQTool, Family Planning Quality | Stories & Case Studies | November 10, 2023 | stories-case-studies | abortion-care-quality-tool family-planning-quality | |
 | Quality of care from the perspective of people obtaining abortion: a qualitative study in four countries | This qualitative study aimed to identify person-centred domains that would contribute to the definition and measurement of abortion quality of care based on the perceptions, experiences and priorities of people seeking abortion. | ACQTool | Articles & Reports | November 10, 2023 | articles | abortion-care-quality-tool | |
 | Press Release: USAID Adopts M4M’s Innovative PCMC Scale for Improved Maternal Health Care | M4M is excited to announce a significant advancement in measuring maternal care quality. The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has integrated the 13-question person-centered maternity care (PCMC) scale into the Demographic and Health Surveys Program Service Provision Assessment (SPA). | Family Planning Quality, Maternal Health Quality | News, Press | September 20, 2023 | news press | family-planning-quality maternal-health-quality | |
| Frontier Health Markets (FHM) Engage Market Sizing Report Tanzania | An Innovative Approach to Diagnosing Market Constraints and Opportunities by Measuring and Visualizing Sub-market Size | Family Planning Quality, Health impact, Sustainability | Articles & Reports | September 15, 2023 | tanzania | articles | family-planning-quality health-impact sustainability |
 | MY SRH: Infographic | Measuring Youth Sexual and Reproductive Health Services Infographic | MY SRH | Articles & Reports | August 18, 2023 | articles | measuring-youth-sexual-and-reproductive-health-services | |
 | Transforming How We Measure and Improve the Quality of SRH Services for Youth | Adolescence and youth are undoubtedly critical periods for sexual and reproductive health (SRH). Young people encounter distinct challenges and vulnerabilities associated with sexuality, identity, and relationships which can significantly impact their long-term health and well-being. | MY SRH | Articles & Reports | August 11, 2023 | articles | measuring-youth-sexual-and-reproductive-health-services | |
 | The key to powerful data | Healthcare around the world needs accurate, timely, and reliable data to guide decision-making. Without proper data and analysis, healthcare providers cannot identify areas that require intervention, nor measure impact, nor improve programs or monitor progress towards healthcare goals and patient outcomes. | EquityTool, Family Planning Quality, Maternal Health Quality | Stories & Case Studies | August 10, 2023 | stories-case-studies | equitytool family-planning-quality maternal-health-quality | |
 | MY SRH: Measuring Youth Sexual and Reproductive Health Services | Current measures of adolescent friendly reproductive health services do not measure the parts of health care that are most important to young people. Metrics for Management (M4M) and a diverse, globally representative group of youth leaders are changing that. | MY SRH | Articles & Reports | July 6, 2023 | articles | measuring-youth-sexual-and-reproductive-health-services | |
 | Press Release: M4M receives grant for adolescent-friendly sexual and reproductive health (SRH) work | Metrics for Management (M4M) is pleased to announce that they have received a grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, supporting the Measuring Youth Sexual and Reproductive Health (MY SRH) initiative. | Family Planning Quality, Maternal Health Quality | News, Press | June 21, 2023 | news press | family-planning-quality maternal-health-quality | |
 | M4M and Partners Work with The Rotary Foundation for a Malaria-Free Zambia | Metrics for Management is thrilled to announce that Dr. Nirali Chakraborty has been promoted to the new role of Chief Strategy Officer. Nirali has been a key member of the M4M team, serving as the Director of Research and Technical Assistance since 2016. | Family Planning Quality, Maternal Health Quality | News, Press | May 18, 2023 | news press | family-planning-quality maternal-health-quality | |
 | Press Release: M4M congratulates Nirali Chakraborty in her new role as Chief Strategy Officer | Metrics for Management is thrilled to announce that Dr. Nirali Chakraborty has been promoted to the new role of Chief Strategy Officer. Nirali has been a key member of the M4M team, serving as the Director of Research and Technical Assistance since 2016. | Family Planning Quality, Maternal Health Quality | News, Press | May 3, 2023 | news press | family-planning-quality maternal-health-quality | |
 | EquityTool Overview | EquityTool Overview | EquityTool | Training Materials | April 26, 2023 | training-materials | equitytool | |
 | A2IE Overview | A2IE Overview | Training Materials | April 26, 2023 | training-materials | |||
| A2IE Benefits | A2IE Benefits | Training Materials | April 26, 2023 | training-materials | |||
 | A2IE Website | A2IE Website | Training Materials | April 26, 2023 | training-materials | |||
 | Gwatkin winner USHA | Gwatkin winner USHA | Gwatkin Equity Measurement Prize | Training Materials | April 26, 2023 | training-materials | gwatkin-equity-measurement-prize | |
 | Gwatkin winner Sightsavers | Gwatkin winner Sightsavers | Gwatkin Equity Measurement Prize | Training Materials | April 26, 2023 | training-materials | gwatkin-equity-measurement-prize | |
 | Gwatkin winner Nigeria FMOH | Gwatkin winner Nigeria FMOH | Gwatkin Equity Measurement Prize | Training Materials | April 26, 2023 | training-materials | gwatkin-equity-measurement-prize | |
 | ACQTool How does it work | ACQTool How does it work | ACQTool | Training Materials | April 26, 2023 | training-materials | abortion-care-quality-tool | |
 | ACQTool Overview | ACQTool Overview | ACQTool | Training Materials | April 26, 2023 | training-materials | abortion-care-quality-tool | |
 | Web Release: Further Measuring Quality of Abortion Care | Population Services International's (PSI) Self-Care Trailblazer Group (SCTG) and partners recently launched a tool for providing a global standard approach to practical and accurate measurement of sexual and reproductive (SRH) self-care interventions called the Sexual and Reproductive Health Self-Care Measurement Tool (SRH Self-Care Measurement Tool). | Family Planning Quality, Maternal Health Quality | News, Press | April 7, 2023 | news press | family-planning-quality maternal-health-quality | |
 | How a wealth measurement tool is improving global health | Among the global health community, a common challenge is determining whether programs are reaching target communities, frequently those in poorer households. This information allows program managers to adjust and improve service delivery. | EquityTool | News, Press, Stories & Case Studies | March 8, 2023 | bangladesh benin cote-divoire | news press stories-case-studies | equitytool |
 | Webinar | ACQTool Webinar Hotlines | Webinar | ACQTool Webinar Hotlines | ACQTool | Training Materials | November 10, 2022 | training-materials | abortion-care-quality-tool | |
 | Webinar | 2022 Gwatkin Award Winners Webinar | Webinar | 2022 Gwatkin Equity Measurement Prize Winners | Gwatkin Equity Measurement Prize | Training Materials | November 8, 2022 | training-materials | gwatkin-equity-measurement-prize | |
 | Webinar | ACQTool Webinar Pharmacies | Webinar | ACQTool Webinar Pharmacies | ACQTool | Training Materials | November 2, 2022 | training-materials | abortion-care-quality-tool | |
 | Webinar | ACQTool Webinar Facilities | Webinar | ACQTool Webinar Facilities | ACQTool | Training Materials | October 26, 2022 | training-materials | abortion-care-quality-tool | |
 | EquityTool wealth assessment helps ensure no one is left behind | The Nigeria Federal Ministry of Health conducts treatment coverage surveys of neglected tropical diseases and uses the EquityTool to ensure programming reaches the most vulnerable | EquityTool | Stories & Case Studies | September 27, 2022 | stories-case-studies | equitytool | |
 | EquityTool wealth assessment: finding a practical solution for ensuring services reach those with the greatest need | Sightsavers researchers compare EquityTool with other asset-based wealth assessment tools to identify a practical solution for field-based vision care project targeting. | EquityTool | Stories & Case Studies | September 15, 2022 | stories-case-studies | equitytool | |
| Frontier Health Markets (FHM) Engage HIV Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis in the Private Sector | Comparing Tanzania, Kenya, South Africa, Zambia, and Thailand | Health impact, Sustainability | Articles & Reports | September 9, 2022 | articles | health-impact sustainability | |
 | EquityTool wealth assessment improves targeting and outreach | The USAID Uganda Sanitation for Health Activity uses EquityTool wealth assessment to understand project beneficiary profiles, and effectively target outreach and build pro low-income earner solutions to increase private water connection uptake. | EquityTool | Stories & Case Studies | September 5, 2022 | stories-case-studies | equitytool | |
| Frontier Health Markets (FHM) Engage HIV Self-Testing in the Private Sector | Comparing Tanzania, Kenya, South Africa, Zambia, and Thailand | Health impact, Sustainability | Articles & Reports | August 12, 2022 | articles | health-impact sustainability | |
| Frontier Health Markets (FHM) Engage Private Sector Global Data Summary | Identification and description of existing global data sources to understand the size and scope of the private health sector in low- and middle- income countries | Health impact, Sustainability | Articles & Reports | August 1, 2022 | articles | health-impact sustainability | |
 | Toward a Standard Measure of Abortion Service Quality-A Stakeholder First Approach | Measurement of the quality of abortion services is essential to service improvement. Currently, its measurement is not standardized, and some of the tools which exist are very long, and may deter use. | Articles & Reports | July 1, 2022 | articles | |||
 | Exploring and Monitoring Privacy, Confidentiality, and Provider Bias | Purpose: Poor privacy and confidentiality practices and provider bias are believed to compromise adolescent and young adult sexual and reproductive health service quality. | MY SRH | Articles & Reports | May 27, 2022 | articles | measuring-youth-sexual-and-reproductive-health-services | |
 | Perspectives on interpersonal care among people who obtain abortions through clinical and accompaniment models in Argentina | Little is known about how people who have abortions describe high-quality interpersonal care in Argentina. This qualitative study aimed to understand preferences and priorities in their interactions with providers.... Read more. | ACQTool | Articles & Reports | May 2, 2022 | articles | abortion-care-quality-tool | |
 | “I just have to hope that this abortion should go well”: Perceptions, fears, and experiences of abortion clients in Nigeria | This qualitative study aimed to examine how abortion clients in Nigeria perceive abortion and explore the role their beliefs and fears play in their care-seeking experiences and interactions with providers. Abortion is severely legally restricted in Nigeria but remains common. We conducted in-depth interviews with 25 people who obtained abortion services through three distinct.... Read more. | ACQTool | Articles & Reports | February 7, 2022 | articles | abortion-care-quality-tool | |
 | EquityTool helps assess real-time analysis of crowdsourced data by wealth quintiles | EquityTool helps assess real-time analysis of crowdsourced data by wealth quintiles. UNICEF Bangladesh increases the useability of U-Report crowdsourced data by creating a representative sample for equity analysis of crowdsourced surveys | EquityTool | Stories & Case Studies | December 15, 2021 | stories-case-studies | equitytool | |
 | Real-time wealth assessment to ensure results‑based financing systems reach the poor | EquityTool wealth assessment allows for simple, cost-effective equity monitoring and real-time adaptation of project and program activities. | Stories & Case Studies | September 5, 2021 | stories-case-studies | |||
 | Put Your Data To Use | Put your DATA to use. Global health needs rigorous, evidence based, standardised and goal driven metrics. | Training Materials | July 11, 2021 | training-materials | |||
 | Abortion Service Quality Initiative (ASQ): Abortion metrics matter | ASQ brief on why metrics matter. | ACQTool | Articles & Reports | June 16, 2021 | articles | abortion-care-quality-tool | |
 | Abortion Service Quality Initiative (ASQ): Measuring abortion services | ASQ brief on measuring abortion service quality. | ACQTool | Articles & Reports | June 16, 2021 | articles | abortion-care-quality-tool | |
 | EquityTool helps identify those most in need | Routine monitoring of equity in sanitation delivery project in Benin and Côte d’Ivoire demonstrates the EquityTool’s versatility and adaptability, including seamless integration with DHIS2. | EquityTool | Stories & Case Studies | May 31, 2021 | benin cote-divoire | stories-case-studies | equitytool |
 | Understanding the Abortion Experiences of Young People to Inform Quality Care in Argentina, Bangladesh, Ethiopia, and Nigeria | Young people face social and structural barriers when accessing abortions. High-quality, sexual and reproductive healthcare is needed; however, literature on youth-informed abortion services is limited. This study assesses accounts of youth who obtained an abortion in Argentina, Bangladesh, Ethiopia, and Nigeria and provides recommendations to improve person-centered aspects.... Read more. | ACQTool | Articles & Reports | April 24, 2021 | articles | abortion-care-quality-tool | |
 | Method Information Index | Overview of the Method Information Index. | Family Planning Quality | Articles & Reports | April 19, 2021 | articles | family-planning-quality | |
 | EquityTool | Overview of the EquityTool. | EquityTool | Articles & Reports | April 19, 2021 | articles | equitytool | |
 | Asset to Income Estimator | Overview of the Asset to Income Estimator. | EquityTool | Articles & Reports | April 19, 2021 | articles | equitytool | |
 | Person-Centered Maternity Care | Overview of Person-Centered Maternity Tool. | Maternal Health Quality | Articles & Reports | April 19, 2021 | articles | maternal-health-quality | |
 | Standard Survey Data: Insights Into Private Sector Utilization | This study sets out to summarize the importance of private provision of inpatient and outpatient care within health systems of 65 countries in Latin America, Africa, Europe, and Asia. We expand on and update prior studies which have used similar data, and create regional summaries. | Articles & Reports | April 12, 2021 | africa asia europe latin-america | articles | ||
 | Measuring Service Quality and Assessing Its Relationship to Contraceptive Discontinuation: A Prospective Cohort Study in Pakistan and Uganda | The International Rescue Committee (IRC) used the EquityTool to understand existing in-country methods to identify the poor. The IRC will use EquityTool results to inform future iterations of their cash transfer program, ensuring the best use of their resources and the continued effectiveness of their crisis response. | Family Planning Quality | Articles & Reports | June 30, 2020 | pakistan uganda | articles | family-planning-quality |
 | PERSON CENTERED MATERNITY CARE | Together with researchers at the University of California, San Francisco and the University of California, Los Angeles we have developed a 13-item scale to assess PCMC. | Maternal Health Quality | Training Materials | May 1, 2020 | training-materials | maternal-health-quality | |
 | METHOD INFORMATION INDEX | The quality of family planning counseling is important to support women to use, and continue using, contraception, when desired. Providing women with a choice of contraceptive methods and with high-quality counseling are critical elements of rights-based family planning. | Family Planning Quality | Training Materials | May 1, 2020 | training-materials | family-planning-quality | |
 | Measures of family planning service quality associated with contraceptive discontinuation: an analysis of Measurement, Learning & Evaluation (MLE) project data from urban Kenya | Many program implementers have difficulty collecting and analyzing data on program beneficiaries’ wealth because a large number of survey questions are required to construct the standard. | Family Planning Quality | Articles & Reports | March 1, 2020 | kenya | articles | family-planning-quality |
 | Definitions, measurement and indicator selection for quality of care in abortion | There is little consensus about how to measure quality of care for abortino services. Yet, standardized and validated quality metrics would move our field forward and contribute to quality improvement activities and, ultimately, to improved health outcomes for women and families. Partners in the Abortion Service Quality Initiative are collaborating to develop the first-ever global.... Read more. | ACQTool | Articles & Reports | November 30, 2019 | articles | abortion-care-quality-tool | |
 | Definitions, measurement and indicator selection for quality of care in abortion | Little consensus exists about how to measure quality of care in abortion. Our purpose is to (a) provide common language for healthcare quality definitions, frameworks and measurement; (b) synthesize literature about quality measurement in abortion; and (c) present criteria for quality metric development. Quality includes effectiveness, patient centeredness, timeliness, efficiency.... Read more. | ACQTool | Articles & Reports | July 26, 2019 | articles | abortion-care-quality-tool | |
 | Toward the development of a short multi- country person- centered maternity care scale | Article in International Journal of Gynecology and Obstetrics by Afulani, P. A., Feeser, K., Sudhinaraset, M., Aborigo, R., Montagu, D. and Chakraborty, N. using data from Ghana, Kenya, and India to develop a shortened, valid and reliable scale applicable across multiple settings for routine monitoring of person‐centered maternity care (PCMC). | Maternal Health Quality | Articles & Reports | May 9, 2019 | ghana india kenya | articles | maternal-health-quality |
 | Association Between the Quality of Contraceptive Counseling and Method Continuation: Findings From a Prospective Cohort Study in Social Franchise Clinics in Pakistan and Uganda | Global Health Science and Practice article by Nirali M. Chakraborty, Karen Chang, Benjamin Bellows, Karen A. Grépin, Waqas Hameed, Amanda Kalamar, Xaher Gul, Lynn Atuyambe and Dominic Montagu, showing that higher Method Information Index (MII) scores in Pakistan and Uganda was associated with continued use of family planning over 12 months. | Family Planning Quality | Articles & Reports | March 8, 2019 | pakistan uganda | articles | family-planning-quality |
 | Evaluating Quality of Contraceptive Counseling: An analysis of the Method Information Index | A Studies in Family Planning journal article by Chang, Mukanu, Bellows, Hameed, Kalamar, Grépin, Gul, and Chakraborty, assessing consistency between Method Information Index (MII) responses and the contraceptive method received in a prospective study in Uganda and Pakistan. | Family Planning Quality | Articles & Reports | January 19, 2019 | pakistan uganda | articles | family-planning-quality |
 | Who Serves the Poor? An Equity Analysis of Public and Private Providers of Family Planning and Child Health Services in Kenya | A Frontiers in Public Health journal article by Chakraborty, Montagu, Wanderi and Oduor, which uses the EquityTool to analyze differences in the wealth status of clients of family planning and child health services in Kenya by health sector. Collaboration with PSI and PS Kenya. | EquityTool, Family Planning Quality | Articles & Reports | January 8, 2019 | kenya | articles | equitytool family-planning-quality |
 | Maternal & Neonatal Healthcare Quality Measurement: Real and Desired | Report by Chang, Hossain, Sarker, Montagu, and Chakraborty, in collaboration with BRAC in Bangladesh (JPGSPH). Starting with the 352 indicators within WHO Standards for Improving Quality of Maternal and Newborn Care in Health Facilities, this report proposes a prioritization of indicators based on evidence of correlation to outcomes and on service-level assessments of utility and viability. | Maternal Health Quality | Articles & Reports | December 14, 2018 | bangladesh | articles | maternal-health-quality |
 | Operationalizing an Equity Lens in Community Health | Blog post by Medic Mobile's Alix Emden detailing an EquityTool collaboration with Living Goods and Metrics for Management. | EquityTool | News, Press, Stories & Case Studies | August 15, 2018 | kenya uganda | news press stories-case-studies | equitytool |
 | Ensuring Equitable Service Delivery | Blog post by Living Goods Director of Analytics Brad Presner detailing an EquityTool collaboration with Medic Mobile and Metrics for Management. | EquityTool | News, Press, Stories & Case Studies | August 15, 2018 | kenya uganda | news press stories-case-studies | equitytool |
 | M4M Consulting Case Study: Creating a global measure of lives transformed with PCI | Working together with Project Concern International (PCI), M4M created modules for the organization that were aligned with global measurement best practices. The standardized components are applicable to all programs where PCI provides services, enabling easy comparisons across projects, as well as over time within a single project. | Stories & Case Studies | July 9, 2018 | guatemala india malawi united-states | stories-case-studies | ||
 | Living Goods & Medic Mobile Case Study – Full Length | EquityTool case study (full length version): A collaboration between Living Goods and Medic Mobile on a Smart Health mobile app integrating the EquityTool provided Living Goods Community Health Workers with digital tools to better measure and provide crucial health services. | EquityTool | Stories & Case Studies | July 9, 2018 | kenya uganda | stories-case-studies | equitytool |
 | Living Goods & Medic Mobile Case Study – Abridged | EquityTool Case Study (abbreviated version): A collaboration between Living Goods and Medic Mobile on a Smart Health mobile app integrating the EquityTool provided Living Goods Community Health Workers with digital tools to better measure and provide crucial health services. | EquityTool | Stories & Case Studies | July 9, 2018 | kenya uganda | stories-case-studies | equitytool |
 | EquityTool Case Study: Ensuring equitable access to clean water with Water Mission | Water Mission incorporated EquityTool questions into their existing evaluations of two projects: a household water treatment program in Peru, and a solar-powered prepaid water system project in Tanzania. In both cases, the EquityTool allowed Water Mission to better understand their client profile and program efficacy and affordability. | EquityTool | Stories & Case Studies | June 9, 2018 | honduras peru tanzania | stories-case-studies | equitytool |
 | Quality of care and abortion: beyond safety | Joint editorial from BMJ Journal – Sexual & Reproductive Health, stating that governments, advocates, providers, policymakers and other stakeholders who want to fully support women’s rights to access abortion across the globe must address quality of care, in addition to efforts to change abortion laws, train providers and expand service provision. | ACQTool | Articles & Reports | May 5, 2018 | articles | abortion-care-quality-tool | |
 | Use of family planning and child health services in the private sector: an equity analysis of 12 DHS surveys | An International Journal for Equity in Health article by Chakraborty and Sprockett conducting weighted descriptive analyses on current users of modern FP and on the youngest household child under age 5 to understand and compare country-specific care seeking patterns in use of public or private facilities based on urban/rural residence and wealth quintile. | EquityTool | Articles & Reports | April 4, 2018 | bangladesh cambodia democratic-republic-of-congo dominican-republic ghana haiti kenya liberia mali nigeria senegal zambia | articles | equitytool |
 | Publication of book: Quality Measurement in Family Planning: Past, Present, Future | News alert announcing the publication of the book: Quality Measurement in Family Planning: Past, Present, Future. | Family Planning Quality | News, Press | November 9, 2017 | news press | family-planning-quality | |
 | Identifying Adopters of Family Planning in Client Exit Interviews: Does Recall Period Matter? | Article by Feeser, Chakraborty, Koladycz, Marriott, and Armstrong, representing Metrics for Management and International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF). In the interests of standardizing the assessment of family planning continuing users or adopters, this article analyzes how applying a timeframe to questions on prior contraceptive use affected client response, and thus, client profile. | Family Planning Quality | Articles & Reports | August 23, 2017 | articles | family-planning-quality | |
 | EquityTool Case Study: Strengthening the Indian health sector and advocating for needs of niche clients with HLFPPT | Hindustan Latex Family Planning Promotion Trust (HLFPPT) used the EquityTool to understand target population and advocate for the importance of their role to strengthen national health service delivery. HLFPPT has leveraged EquityTool evidence to bolster crowdsource donations funding childbirth services for more than 75 women who could not otherwise afford care. | EquityTool | Stories & Case Studies | July 13, 2017 | india | stories-case-studies | equitytool |
 | EquityTool Case Study: Improving reach and sustainability of vision services with Sightsavers | For Sightsavers’ work in India and Bangladesh, the EquityTool revealed the potential for introducing cost recovery mechanisms to improve program sustainability. In Malawi, they learned that 70% of their clients fell in the wealthiest three quintiles, and are now working to adjust their outreach to better reach those in-need. | EquityTool | Stories & Case Studies | July 11, 2017 | bangladesh india malawi | stories-case-studies | equitytool |
 | Book: Advancing measurement of abortion quality | Report and next steps from Wilton Park abortion service quality stakeholder meeting. The purpose of the discussion was to seek support for the idea that common measures of abortion service quality are useful, and to reach agreement on the quality dimensions and outcomes of interest to prioritise in the development of a standardised suite of metrics. | ACQTool | Articles & Reports | May 19, 2017 | articles | abortion-care-quality-tool | |
 | EquityTool Case Study: Effectively identifying and serving the most vulnerable crisis victims with the International Rescue Committee | The International Rescue Committee (IRC) used the EquityTool to understand existing in-country methods to identify the poor. The IRC will use EquityTool results to inform future iterations of their cash transfer program, ensuring the best use of their resources and the continued effectiveness of their crisis response. | EquityTool | Stories & Case Studies | April 12, 2017 | pakistan | stories-case-studies | equitytool |
 | EquityTool Case Study: Improving heath and livelihoods for women and families in Cambodia with Helen Keller International | Helen Keller International (HKI) used the EquityTool to improve the health status of women and children around the world. The EquityTool has allowed HKI to collect and understand wealth data in a new way, enabling more critical reflection on their service model. | EquityTool | Stories & Case Studies | April 7, 2017 | cambodia | stories-case-studies | equitytool |
 | Assessing provision and equity in low and middle income country health markets | Final report co-written by Chakraborty, Wanderi, Oduor and Montagu for Population Services International (PSI) and USAID. Report details a cross-sectional survey of urban health facilities in Kenya stratified by health facility type, focusing on four separate sectors: public, faith-based, private (non-franchised) and private (social-franchised), and using the EquityTool. | EquityTool | Articles & Reports | October 1, 2016 | kenya | articles | equitytool |
 | The Relationship between wealth and use of health services in the private sector | Literature review and secondary data analysis focusing on family planning and common childhood illness across different public and private sector facility types and by wealth, written for Population Services International (PSI) and USAID. | EquityTool | Articles & Reports | September 1, 2016 | bangladesh cambodia democratic-republic-of-congo dominican-republic ghana haiti kenya liberia mali nigeria senegal zambia | articles | equitytool |
 | Engaging the Private Sector in UHC | Article on UHC and the private sector, co-authored by Dr. Catherine Goodman of the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, UK and M4M CEO Dr. Dominic Montagu in his capacity as a Professor of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the University of California, San Francisco. | Articles & Reports | August 6, 2016 | articles | |||
 | Behind the equity app: how researchers were able to balance scientific rigor with ease-of-use | A blog post by Kim Longfield and Dana Sievers for PSI Impact, contrasting PSI's past approach to quity measurement in franchise clinics against the streamlined protocol of the EquityTool. | EquityTool | June 16, 2016 | equitytool | |||
 | Simplified Asset Indices to Measure Wealth and Equity in Health Programs: A Reliability and Validity Analysis Using Survey Data From 16 Countries | A Global Health Science and Practice Journal article by Chakraborty, Fry, Behl, and Longfield on the creation of country-specific measures of household wealth with as few as 6 questions that are highly reliable and valid in both urban and rural contexts. | EquityTool | Articles & Reports | April 1, 2016 | bangladesh benin cambodia cameroon ethiopia malawi mozambique nepal nigeria pakistan philippines rwanda senegal tanzania uganda zimbabwe | articles | equitytool |
 | The EquityTool: Changing poverty measurement and service delivery | A blog post by Andrea Sprockett for the Joint Learning Network, that outlines the importance of equity measurement in development measurement and service delivery, and introduces readers to the EquityTool. | EquityTool | Stories & Case Studies | March 21, 2016 | stories-case-studies | equitytool | |
 | Review of quality assessment tools for family planning programmes in low- and middle-income countries | A Health Policy and Planning literature review by Andrea Sprockett to identify and assess 20 widely used public domain quality assessment tools with existing or potential application in clinic-based family planning programmes. | Family Planning Quality | Articles & Reports | March 16, 2016 | articles | family-planning-quality | |
 | Quality measurement in family planning: past, present, future | Papers from the Bellagio meeting on Family Planning Quality in October 2015. Collection edited by Hopkins Leisher, collated and managed by Sprockett, Longfield, Montagu. A book in three parts: 1) The importance of quality to family planning; 2) Experiences with measuring qualiy to date; 3) Key considerations for making progress in quality measurement. | Family Planning Quality | Articles & Reports | January 5, 2016 | benin bolivia burkina-faso cambodia cameoon colombia dominican-republic egpyt el-salvador ethiopia ghana guatemala haiti honduras india indonesia kenya lao-pdr madagascar malawi mali mozambique myanmar namibia nepal nicaragua niger nigeria pakistan philippines rwanda senegal south-africa tanzania uganda vienam zambia zimbabwe | articles | family-planning-quality |
 | Video introduction to the EquityTool | A short video introduction to the EquityTool. | EquityTool | Training Materials | December 13, 2015 | training-materials | equitytool |
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