MAGE resources

Women-friendly, Quality Reproductive and Maternal Care in Ghana: Findings from the Service Delivery Indicators Health Survey

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This brief presents results from the 2024 Ghana SDI Health Survey, revealing persistent challenges in ensuring accessible, high-quality, and affordable reproductive and maternal health services for women.

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Transforming Health: The Role and Impact of Women’s Leadership in the Health Sector (THRIVE)

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This report presents a mixed-methods study examining how women’s leadership in the health sector across sub-Saharan Africa uniquely influences policy, funding, and health outcomes within the field of RMNCAH-N and immunization.

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The Use and Relevance of Tools and Guidance on Gender Responsive Monitoring and Evaluation: A Stakeholder Analysis

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This report analyzes data collected by MAGE through a stakeholder survey to explore how existing guidance and tools on gender responsive M&E are used, what supports their adoption, and what hinders their use.

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MAGE: Monitoring and Action for Gender and Equity

This brief outlines how the Monitoring and Action for Gender and Equity (MAGE) initiative, a partnership between the Global Financing Facility and Johns Hopkins University, strengthens gender integration, measurement, and accountability to improve health systems and RMNCAHN outcomes.

Global measurement update

This factsheet explains why gender-responsive monitoring and evaluation is important and signposts tools that can assist with the process.

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Gender-responsive monitoring and evaluation for health systems

This article published in Health Policy and Planning, presents a methodological approach to integrating gender considerations into monitoring and evaluation (M&E) for health systems.

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Towards a common understanding of gender-responsive monitoring and evaluation for health programs and interventions: Evidence from a scoping review

This article published in SSM – Health Systems is a scoping review that explores how gender is integrated into monitoring and evaluation (M&E) processes within health programs, particularly those focused on reproductive, maternal, newborn, child, and adolescent health and nutrition (RMNCAHN).

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BRIEF: Women-friendly respectful care in Ethiopia

This brief explores the application of a gender lens to women’s experiences of respectful maternity care in Ethiopia. It analyzes these experiences along a cascade that includes: having basic care needs met, respect for personal preferences, and participation in decision-making.

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Webinar: Exploring the impact of women’s leadership in RMNCAH-N and immunization

During this one hour webinar we discussed the launch of our new study to document the impact of women’s leadership in RMNCAHN and immunization across sub-Saharan Africa. Funded by the Global Financing Facility and Gavi, this study seeks to move beyond the barriers that women leaders face, and focus on the impact they’ve had in spite of these barriers! We provided an overview of the study, shared results from a scoping review, and discussed the importance of this work.

Gender and maternal and newborn health financing: Key issues for monitoring and evaluation

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This brief explores key gender issues within health financing for maternal and newborn health at the health systems level, and how they contribute to poor maternal health outcomes. It includes examples of indicators that can be adapted for monitoring and evaluation to achieve gender responsive maternal and newborn health.

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Gender and maternal and newborn health service delivery: Key issues for monitoring and evaluation

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This brief explores key gender issues in maternal and newborn health service delivery and how they contribute to poor maternal health outcomes. It includes examples of indicators that can be adapted to achieve gender-responsive maternal and newborn health at the health system level.

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Gender and maternal and newborn health workforce: Key issues for monitoring and evaluation

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This brief explores key gender issues related to maternal and newborn health workforce and how they might impact maternal and newborn health outcomes. It includes examples of indicators that can be adapted for monitoring and evaluation (M&E) to increasingly achieve gender-responsiveness within the health workforce and contribute to increased retention of maternal and newborn health providers.

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Webinar: Gender Responsive Monitoring and Evaluation for the Real World

This MAGE webinar explored what gender-responsive monitoring and evaluation is and why it is important for advancing gender equality. It covered different approaches to conducting monitoring and evaluation including a discussion of the strengths and challenges.

Monitoring and evaluating gender-responsive health financing for RMNCAH-N

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This brief explores how gender power dynamics influence access to and utilization of health financing for Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn, Child, and Adolescent Health and Nutrition (RMNCAH-N). It outlines the gendered implications of financing mechanisms, such as user fees, and provides guiding questions and indicators to support more equitable, gender-responsive health financing systems.

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Gender-responsive monitoring and evaluation (M&E) for health programs, interventions, and reforms

This brief explores what gender-responsive M&E is, why it is important, and how to integrate it into health programs, with a particular focus on reproductive, maternal, newborn, child, and adolescent health.

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