The Silent Burden: Maternal Mental Health and the Importance of Engaging Faith Actors
Mental health lacks proper attention in the health sector, both in funding and response, despite its high prevalence rate. The perinatal period is a particularly crucial time to address mental health concerns as it is associated with an elevated risk of mental disorders. Faith actors and FBOs can...
CCIH CLA Case Studies
This Case Study describes how faith-based organizations (FBOs) are implementing collaborating, learning, and adapting (CLA) tools in their projects, along with traditional monitoring and evaluation (M&E). It is intended to highlight case studies that may be helpful to faith-based partners that may be less familiar with adaptive learning....
World Health Organization Global Malaria Programme, Malaria Guidance
Clear, evidence-informed WHO recommendations are designed to guide countries as they develop national malaria strategic plans; they support decisions around “what to do”. WHO also develops implementation guidance such as operational and field manuals to advise countries on “how to” deliver the recommended tools and strategies. In addition...
Reaching Boys and Men
This short film explores how Health Policy Plus (HP+) collaborated with Malawi’s six religious mother bodies to implement PEPFAR’s Faith and Community Initiative (FCI) in eight of Malawi’s districts. Through FCI, religious leaders incorporated PEPFAR Messages of Hope—accurate HIV messages that correspond with religious texts from the Bible...