Strengthening management at district level to support the achievement of Universal Health Coverage (PERFORM2scale)

Project Information

Perform 2 scale

Grant agreement ID: 733360

DOI 10.3030/733360

Project closed

EC signature date 1 December 2016

Start date 1 January 2017

End date 31 March 2022

Funded under

• SOCIETAL CHALLENGES - Health, demographic change and well-being

Total cost € 7 689 008,66

EU contribution € 6 749 280,33

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Deliverables

Demonstrators, pilots, prototypes (1)

Project website

Documents, reports (11)

Briefing note on project progress and for stakeholders

A briefing note for stakeholders lessons on project progress and lessons learnt to date on the implementation and scale-up process.

Country report for Uganda
Working framework and strategy on scale-up process
Capacity development evaluation report
Country report for Ghana
Protocol for outcome evaluation of interventions and scale-up

Protocol for outcome evaluation of interventions and scaleup

Synthesis report
Validated framework for scale-up of the intervention
Protocol for costing the scale-up

Protocol for costing the scaleup

Generic protocol for process evaluation including tools
Country report for Malawi

Publications

Peer reviewed articles (10)

Transforming capacity-strengthening in an era of sustainable development

Author(s): Anne Christine Stender Heerdegen
Published in: International Journal of Public Health, Issue 65/9, 2020, Page(s) 1519-1520, ISSN 1661-8556
Publisher: Birkhauser Verlag
DOI: 10.1007/s00038-020-01490-4

Determinants of safety climate at primary care level in Ghana, Malawi and Uganda: a cross-sectional study across 138 selected primary healthcare facilities

Author(s): Frédérique Vallières, Paul Mubiri, Samuel Agyei Agyemang, Samuel Amon, Jana Gerold, Tim Martineau, Ann Nolan, Thomasena O’Byrne, Lifah Sanudi, Freddie Sengooba, Helen Prytherch
Published in: Human Resources for Health, Issue 19/1, 2021, ISSN 1478-4491
Publisher: BioMed Central
DOI: 10.1186/s12960-021-00617-9

What do we mean by individual capacity strengthening for primary health care in low- and middle-income countries? A systematic scoping review to improve conceptual clarity

Author(s): Mairéad Finn, Brynne Gilmore, Greg Sheaf, Frédérique Vallières
Published in: Human Resources for Health, Issue 19/1, 2021, ISSN 1478-4491
Publisher: BioMed Central
DOI: 10.1186/s12960-020-00547-y

Strengthening health district management competencies in Ghana, Tanzania and Uganda: lessons from using action research to improve health workforce performance

Author(s): Tim Martineau, Joanna Raven, Moses Aikins, Alvaro Alonso-Garbayo, Sebastian Baine, Reinhard Huss, Stephen Maluka, Kaspar Wyss
Published in: BMJ Global Health, Issue 3/2, 2018, Page(s) e000619, ISSN 2059-7908
Publisher: BMJ Global Health
DOI: 10.1136/bmjgh-2017-000619

Decision space for health workforce management in decentralized settings: a case study in Uganda

Author(s): Alvaro Alonso-Garbayo, Joanna Raven, Sally Theobald, Freddie Ssengooba, Milly Nattimba, Tim Martineau
Published in: Health Policy and Planning, Issue 32/suppl_3, 2017, Page(s) iii59-iii66, ISSN 0268-1080
Publisher: Oxford University Press
DOI: 10.1093/heapol/czx116

Health worker transfer processes within the public health sector in Ghana: a study of three districts in the Eastern Region

Author(s): A. C. S. Heerdegen, M. Bonenberger, M. Aikins, P. Schandorf, P. Akweongo, K. Wyss
Published in: Human Resources for Health, Issue 17/1, 2019, ISSN 1478-4491
Publisher: BioMed Central
DOI: 10.1186/s12960-019-0379-z

Factors influencing the scale-up of public health interventions in low- and middle-income countries: a qualitative systematic literature review

Author(s): Susan E Bulthuis, Maryse C Kok, Joanna Raven, Marjolein A Dieleman
Published in: Health Policy and Planning, 2019, ISSN 0268-1080
Publisher: Oxford University Press
DOI: 10.1093/heapol/czz140

How Does District Health Management Emerge Within a Complex Health System? Insights for Capacity Strengthening in Ghana

Author(s): Anne Christine Stender Heerdegen, Jana Gerold, Samuel Amon, Samuel Agyei Agyemang, Moses Aikins, Kaspar Wyss
Published in: Frontiers in Public Health, Issue 8, 2020, ISSN 2296-2565
Publisher: to be confirmed
DOI: 10.3389/fpubh.2020.00270

How district health decision-making is shaped within decentralised contexts: A qualitative research in Malawi, Uganda and Ghana

Author(s): Susan E. Bulthuis, Maryse C. Kok, Samuel Amon, Samuel Agyei Agyemang, Xavier Nsabagasani, Lifah Sanudi, Joanna Raven, Mairead Finn, Jana Gerold, Olivia Tulloch, Marjolein A. Dieleman
Published in: Global Public Health, 2020, Page(s) 1-16, ISSN 1744-1692
Publisher: Routledge
DOI: 10.1080/17441692.2020.1791213

Managerial capacity among district health managers and its association with district performance: A comparative descriptive study of six districts in the Eastern Region of Ghana

Author(s): Anne Christine Stender Heerdegen, Moses Aikins, Samuel Amon, Samuel Agyei Agyemang, Kaspar Wyss
Published in: PLOS ONE, Issue 15/1, 2020, Page(s) e0227974, ISSN 1932-6203
Publisher: Public Library of Science
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0227974

Conference proceedings (1)

District health management and its association with district performance: a study of six districts in the eastern region of Ghana

Author(s): Heerdegen A.C.S., Aikins M., Amon S., Agyemang S., Gerold J., Prytherch H., Wyss K.
Published in: 2019
Publisher: Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene