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What is the Role of Community Capabilities for Maternal Health? An Exploration of Community Capabilities as Determinants to Institutional Deliveries in Bangladesh, India, and Uganda

While community capabilities are recognized as important factors in developing resilient health systems and communities, appropriate metrics for these have not yet been developed. Furthermore, the role of community capabilities on access to maternal health services has been underexplored.

Unlocking Community Capability Through Promotion of Self-Help for Health: Experience from Chakaria, Bangladesh

This paper describes the project’s implementation, impact, and reflective learnings.

Partnerships, Planning and Policy Windows: How to Engage Non-academics with International Development Research

Many international development research projects aim to go far beyond influencing academic debate - they also seek to build relationships and networks, influence attitudes and behaviours, and inform policy and practice. This Learning Guide seeks to draw out some of the key lessons on successful approaches to engaging non-academic audiences for impactful research.

Engaging Research with Policy and Practice

Published by: Institute of Development Studies and The Impact Initiative

How can research evidence influence policy and practice? This Learning Guide seeks to draw out some of the key lessons from on successful approaches and impact lessons on effective use of research evidence to engage policy and practice.

Women and the right of access to information in Bangladesh: executive summary

To demonstrate the hypothesis that women are not able to access information with the same facility (frequency, ease, and rate of...

Women and the right of access to information in Bangladesh: a mixed-methods study

The following report outlines the findings of a study conducted by the Carter Center’s Global Access to Information Program and the...

Unlocking Community Capability: Key to More Responsive, Resilient and Equitable Health Systems

Published by: IDS

Communities are more than a geographic location; they are a site of struggle and also a dynamic engine of change. Unlocking their capabilities to strengthen health systems requires understanding and adapting to local context, engaging a diversity of actors and working with the productive tensions inherent to collective action.

MQSUN Impact Evaluation of the DFID Programme to Accelerate Improved Nutrition for the Extreme Poor in Bangladesh: Final Report

Published by: Maximising the Quality of Scaling up Nutrition (MQSUN)

The DFID Programme to Accelerate Improved Nutrition for the Extreme Poor in Bangladesh aims to improve nutrition outcomes for children, mothers and adolescent girls by integrating the delivery of a number of nutrition-specific (or direct) interventions with the livelihood support provided to extremely poor people by three existing programmes in Bangladesh.