Welcome to Ipact
Ipact is part of Immpact a research group based within the University of Aberdeen. The Immpact Group comprises of two arms: Ipact which provides technical assistance and training and Immpact which conducts research. Our purpose is to generate new knowledge, share evidence and advance best practice in monitoring and evaluation in order to improve maternal health in developing countries.
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Following the successful completion of two Ipact projects in South Asia two new reports have been published.
“Household Costs of Obtaining Maternal and Newborn Care in Rural Bangladesh: Baseline Study”
A new report published today is the outcome of a cross-sectional study of 1200 women of reproductive age who had a live birth in the previous year. The main objective of the study was to analyse the costs households in rural Bangladesh face for maternal and neonatal health services. The report has been prepared by the BRAC Centre (Bangladesh) and Ipact (University of Aberdeen.
South Asia:
A new Ipact publication has been published by the BJOG. (Abstact is available on-line) The aim of the paper is to share practices and ideas identified as part of an assessment of maternal mortality reduction programmes in five South Asian countries, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, India Nepal and Pakistan
Ipact publication appears in the Journal of International Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health.
"Estimates of Health Care System Costs of Unsafe Abortion in Africa and Latin America"
Immpact and Ipact newsletter published
Immpact and Ipact have pooled resources and released a joint newsletter. Featured in this edition of EVIDENCEpress is a selection of current research projects, a list of key publications, available tools and resources and two new features including a section on knowledge exchange and an update on team news. Ipact News features updates on some recent evaluation work, news on M&E training (past and future) and sends out a call for short and long term consultants.
Rabat, Morocco will be the setting for the M&E training in January, 2010 at the Institute National d'Administration Sanitaire (Francophone). Ce cours international destiné aux pays en développement est organisé pour renforcer la capacité des «groupes pays» à suivre et à évaluer les programmes de santé maternelle et néonatale (SMN), et ce, en s’inscrivant dans le contexte d’objectifs globaux de santé génésique.
Dhaka, Bangladesh, James P Grant School of Public Health, BRAC University, will collaborate with Ipact to deliver the next M&E training course from 6th - 17th December, 2009.
Ipact awarded grant from Scottish Development International
Ipact has received a contribution from Scottish Development International towards the cost of a market visit to Tanzania. A series of briefings took place in Dar es Salaam and Arusha. Good contacts have been made and intelligence shared.
Ipact M&E training well received in Arusha
Teams working in Maternal and Neonatal Health representing eight countries, (Tanzania, Namibia, Kenya, South Africa, Uganda, Zimbabwe, Botswana and Zambia) attended the M&E training in Arusha in August. The training will be instrumental in helping them to track their progress towards MDG5. The country teams were able to identify weaknesses and issues in relation to their current road map and will now use the information learnt to incorporate into their 2010 work plans.
Particpants in Arusha 2009
Ipact paper published in International Journal
BMC International Health and Human rights have published an article based on the consultancy work Ipact researchers recently undertook in Ghana. The paper was the outcome of an annual review to provide a preliminary assessment of Ghana’s National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS).
Dr Sophie Witter, lead author of the paper, highlighted the considerable interest in exploring the potential of social health insurance to increase access to and affordability of health care in Africa.
The paper has also been sent to the US National library of Medicine for indexing in PubMed and for archiving in PubMed Centre. A full copy of the paper can be downloaded here.
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