Volume 21 Supplement 1
This International Journal for Equity in health article collection brings together research, discussions and implementation experience in social accountability applied to sexual and reproductive health. The collection aims to explore the implications, the challenges and successes of implementing and researching complex and context-driven interventions, such as social accountability. This supplement was developed with the financial support of the UNDP-UNFPA-UNICEF-WHO-World Bank Special Programme of Research, Development and Research Training in Human Reproduction (HRP), a cosponsored programme executed by the World Health Organization (WHO). Information about the source of funding for individual studies and for publication charges can be found in the individual articles. The articles have undergone the journal's standard peer review process for supplements. The Supplement Editors declare that they have no competing interests. The named authors alone are responsible for the views expressed in this article, and they do not necessarily represent the views, decisions or policies of the institutions with which they are affiliated.
Edited by Petrus S Steyn, Victoria Boydell, Sana Contractor, Joanna Paula Cordero and Ana Lorena Ruano.
Maasai tribe young mothers gather for a forum organized by AMREF, and geared at family planning and other sexual reproductive health options. During the discussions, the community health worker demonstrates condom usage, and other options for contraceptives.
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This paper presents the protocol of a study that aims at exploring how different multi-level governance arrangements impact on sexual and reproductive health of adolescents living in informal settlements. The ...
An increasing number of evaluations of social accountability (SA) interventions have been published in the past decade, however, reporting gaps make it difficult to summarize findings. We developed the Social Acc...
In recent years, researchers and evaluators have made efforts to identify and use appropriate and innovative research designs that account for the complexity in studying social accountability. The relationship...
Like many places in Nigeria, Niger, a predominantly rural and poor state in the north of the country, has high fertility, low contraceptive prevalence, and high maternal mortality. This paper presents a descri...
The Correction to this article has been published in International Journal for Equity in Health 2022 21:65
Health care services express social and structural inequalities, especially for Dalits and women, due to the indignity and discrimination experienced in health care facilities. Jagrutha Mahila Sanghatane (JMS)...
The paper analyzes how the Accountability Can Transform Health (ACT Health) program activated bottom-up citizen action to secure government responses and more accountable health services in Uganda. The ACT Hea...
Social accountability is often put forward as a strategy to promote health rights, but we lack a programmatic evidence base on if, when, and how social accountability strategies can be used to promote access t...
Recognition of the value of “social accountability” to improve health systems performance and to address health inequities, has increased over the last decades, with different schools of thought engaging in ro...
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