Global programs / African Strategies for Health (ASH)

African Strategies for Health (ASH)

Name source: not recorded for this programScope: globalKind: program

Key awd:OAA-C-11-00161

35 facts shown; 0 unconfirmed links; 0 support mechanisms (not programs); 76 documents cite this program.

The one-paragraph answer: years, implementer, funder and purpose, each from document metadata.

Strategic health communication is an integral part of the programmes and development that influence decisions regarding health.  Health communication is often integrated into public health interventions to improve programme outcomes.  Despite the massive donor funding for public health programmes in Nigeria, there is limited information on the current status of health communication programmes.  This study aims to identify the knowledge gaps, describe the future direction and highlight recommendations for strengthening health communication programmes in Nigeria.  Using a purposive sampling methodology, the online study used a two-staged Delphi Technique and the P-Process model to collect data from key stakeholders.  Stakeholders included donors, government, civil society organisations, research institutions, education and training institutions, and communities.  Descriptive analysis was done using SPSS.  Capacity-building gaps were identified and a conceptual framework was developed.  These gaps included: the low technical capacity of stakeholders in health communication, limited resources for organisations to implement activities, the lack of

Source: DEC abstract, PA-00M-CSB (2015). This is the source's own text, not a cited summary of the documents.

Operated in: Africa South of Sahara, Ukraine, Nigeria, Togo, Ivory Coast, Ethiopia, Ghana, Rwanda, Benin, Madagascar, Senegal, Malawi, Southern Hemisphere, Burkina Faso.

Years: 2011 to 2016 award start, end from document years
Implementer: Management Sciences for Health (MSH) 76 sources
Funder or award: USAID. Bur. for Africa; OAA-C-11-00161; AID-OAA-C-II-00161
Purpose: Not available yet: the program's stated purpose has not been read from its documents.

Districts, regions and facilities the program's own documents name, with what the document says it did there. Source: sentences in the program's documents

not in the map yet: no district, region or facility is named for this program yet; only Malawi and Guatemala have place data so far

No district, region or facility is named in this program's documents yet. Place dots exist for Malawi and Guatemala only so far. Towns and natural features are not drawn.

Countries where this program operated, set by the countries its documents name most often. Countries only tagged on documents are listed apart. Source: document tags, scope rule

When the program ran, from its start year to the latest document year. A hatched bar means the start is our estimate. Source: award and document years

Axis: award years, end from years in documents. The start year comes from award fiscal year; the end is the latest document year, so the program may have run longer.

Who started the program, and which administration it began under. Timing only; it does not say who started it. Source: initiative records, start year

Organizations that ran this program, from award records and document authors. Prime and sub roles are not split yet. Source: award and document records

Organizations named on this program's documents.
Name	Role	Years	Basis	Evidence
Management Sciences for Health (MSH)	implementer Named as an institutional author on documents; whether prime, sub or consortium member is not recorded.	2012 to 2016	Stated in a document read from a record field	76 sources

Evaluatorsassessed the program, never counted as implementers

None recorded. Evaluation studies linked to this program are listed under Evaluations and lessons.

Identifiers of the awards and the organizations that funded it. Amounts are under Money. Source: award records

Basis: read from a record field

Awards this program is funded through (identifiers, not amounts).
Name	Years	Basis	Evidence
OAA-C-11-00161 (contract, FY2011)	2012 to 2016	Stated in a document	72 sources
AID-OAA-C-II-00161 (award, fiscal year not recorded)	2016	Stated in a document	4 sources

Funding and managing organizations.
Name	Years

Labels on the program's documents, not a description of what the program did. Source: DEC document tags

Programs worth reading next, by topic, implementer, country and years. Similar by facets (topic, implementer, country, years) and, when available, description. It says the programs look alike, not how they are related in time. Source: catalog facets

Studies that assessed this program, and the lessons taken from them. Source: linked evaluation documents

Evaluation studies and evaluation-stage documents, by title and year. Findings not extracted yet.
Title	Year	Document	Why listed
African Parliamentarians for Evaluation	2016	PA-00M-CTV	evaluation-stage document (eval other, weak classifier)
Parlementaires Africains pour l'Evaluation	2016	PA-00M-CV2	evaluation-stage document (eval other, weak classifier)
Parlamentares Africanos para a Avaliação	2016	PA-00M-CVG	evaluation-stage document (eval other, weak classifier)

Not recorded yet: support mechanisms, money rows. A missing record is not a finding. USAspending records start in FY2007; earlier obligations are missing, not zero.

Every document that cites this program, grouped by a stage label from a weak classifier. Source: document library

Name	Years	Basis	Evidence
Madagascar	2015	Stated in a document	1 source
Nigeria	2015	Stated in a document	1 source

What this program was

Where it worked0

Places14

Timelineyears: award years, end from document years

Political context

Implementers1

Evaluatorsassessed the program, never counted as implementers

Awards and funding sources5

Topic tags15

Similar programs

Evaluations and lessons3

Documents by lifecycle stage76years in documents

Host-government counterpartsthe government body the program worked with