Implement, monitor, evaluate, and adjust

Nine steps for developing a scaling-up strategy

The Nine Steps for developing a scaling-up strategy tool and associated worksheets are based on the ExpandNet framework and provide stepwise guidance to develop a sc...

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Practical guidance for scaling up health service innovations

The Practical Guidance tool identifies general scaling-up principles and provides examples from case studies of successful scale-up initiatives. It is helpful at the design stage, during implementatio...

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    World Health Organization, Department of Reproductive Health and Research
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    22.02.2023
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TDR Implementation Research Toolkit

This toolkit provides deeper learning on implementation research, helping people learn a standard process that can lead to results that can be compared across regions and countries. It is designed to...

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    15.03.2023
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Implementation Research in Health: A Practical Guide

Implementation issues arise as a result of a range of factors including ‘real world’ contextual factors that are either overlooked or not captured by other research disciplines. Implementation researc...

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    Alliance for Health Policy and Systems Research
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    22.02.2023
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Strengthening national evidence-informed guideline programs. A tool for adapting and implementing guidelines in the Americas

The purpose of this document is to present policy-oriented and methodological strategies for developing and/or strengthening national guideline programs, focusing on the adaptation of evidence-informe...

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    22.02.2023
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CAPACITI decision-support tool

The Country-led Assessment for Prioritisation on Immunisation (CAPACITI) project aims to strengthen the ability of LMICs to evaluate immunisation options according to their priorities and programme co...

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    The Immunization Analysis & Insights Unit in the Department of Immunization, Vaccines and Biologicals (IVB)
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    15.03.2023
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Country cooperation strategy guide 2020: implementing the Thirteenth General Programme of Work for driving impact in every country

The Country Cooperation Strategy (CCS) is WHO’s strategic framework to guide the Organization’s work in and with a country. It responds to that country’s National Health and Development Agenda and ide...

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    28.02.2023
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    WHO/CSS/20.01.
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    CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO

Selection of essential medicines at country level: Using the WHO model list of essential medicines to update a national essential medicines list

Since 1977, WHO has been working with countries to design the package of essential medicines as an integral component of treatment within the continuum of care, developing and disseminating the Model...

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    Medicines Selection, IP and Affordability, WHO Headquarters (HQ)
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    28.02.2023
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    CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO

A Guide for Evidence-Informed Decision-Making, Including in Health Emergencies

­This guide aims to bring together the most recent thinking in the EIDM field and to present this in a format that is accessible to a wide audience of EIDM practitioners. It builds on, and contextuali...

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    22.02.2023
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    PAHO/EIH/KT/COVID-19/21-038
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    CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO

Estonian Handbook for Guidelines Development

Clinical practice guidelines are generally accepted as an important tool for improving the quality of clinical care provided by health professionals, as well providing guidance to ensure the quality u...

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    WHO Country Office in Estonia, WHO Regional Office in Europe
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    22.02.2023
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A guide to implementation research in the prevention and control of noncommunicable diseases

The main purpose of this guide is to provide practical guidance, tools and examples for implementation research so as to support effective implementation of NCD policy options and cost-effective inter...

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    Department for the Management of Noncommunicable Diseases, Disability, Violence and Injury Prevention
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    02.07.2024
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    ISBN: 9789241511803
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    CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO

E4As guide for advancing health and sustainable development: resources and tools for policy development and implementation

Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (‎SDGs)‎ requires working in transformative ways. This guide is a compilation of tools and resources for advancing health and sustainable development in cou...

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    Policy and governance for health & WHO Venice Office for Investment for Health
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    07.07.2024
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    9789289055772 (ISBN)
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    CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO

Helmets: a road safety manual for decision-makers and practitioners, 2nd edition

Safe, quality helmets reduce the risk of death in a road crash by over six times, and reduce the risk of brain injury by up to 74%. Head trauma is the leading cause of death for riders, and motorcycle...

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    HQ/Department of the Social Determinants of Health/Safety and Mobility
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    16.07.2024
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    ISBN: 978-92-4-006982-4
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    CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO

Developing national action plans on transport, health and environment: a step-by-step manual for policy-makers and planners

A national transport, health and environment action plan (‎NTHEAP)‎ is a key tool and mechanism for developing sustainable and healthy transport in a country. NTHEAPs provide a comprehensive and inter...

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    30.07.2024
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    ISBN: 9789289050210
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Evidence briefs for policy. Using the integrated knowledge translation approach. Guiding manual

Evidence Briefs for Policy (EBPs) are a relatively new, innovative approach to packaging research evidence for policy-makers; however, they are already the most widely used tool. EBPs are prepared by...

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    Evidence and Research for Policy-Making, Division of Information, Evidence, Research and Innovation, WHO Regional Office for Europe
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    22.02.2023
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    WHO/EURO:2020-1740-41491-56588
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    CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO.

GRADE Handbook

The GRADE handbook describes the process of rating the quality of the best available evidence and developing health care recommendations following the approach proposed by the Grading of Recommendatio...

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    22.02.2023
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SUPPORT Tools for Evidence-informed Policymaking in health (STP) 18: Planning monitoring and evaluation of policies

This article is part of a series written for people responsible for making decisions about health policies and programmes and for those who support these decision makers.The term monitoring is commonl...

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    22.02.2023
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    CC BY 2.0

SURE Guides for Preparing and Using Evidence-Based Policy Briefs 6. Clarifying uncertainties and needs for monitoring and evaluation

SURE Guide 6 is part of the SURE Guides for Preparing and Using Evidence-Based Policy Briefs. The SURE Guides are intended for those people responsible for preparing and supporting the use of policy b...

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    22.02.2023
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WHO Evaluation Practice Handbook

The purpose of this handbook is to complement WHO’s evaluation policy and to streamline evaluation processes by providing step-by-step practical guidance to evaluation in WHO. It aims to foster the cu...

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    22.02.2023
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WHO handbook for guideline development

A WHO guideline is any document developed by the World Health Organization containing recommendations for clinical practice or public health policy. A recommendation tells the intended end-user of the...

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    24.02.2023
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AccessMod

AccessMod (version 5) is a free and open-source standalone software to model geographic accessibility to health services. The tool uses information on population location, health facility location, ge...

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    WHO/HIS/HGF, WHO/IER/KMS/EHL, WHO/FCH/MPS
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    28.02.2023
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    GNU GPL V3

Country assessment guide: the health financing progress matrix

The Health Financing Progress Matrix (HFPM) is a standardized approach to assessing a country’s health financing system. Primarily qualitative in nature, the HFPM considers health financing institutio...

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    Health Financing UHL
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    28.02.2023
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    CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO

OneHealth Tool

The OneHealth Tool is a software tool designed to inform national and subnational strategic health planning in low- and middle-income countries.While many costing tools take a narrow disease-specific...

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    WHO-CHOICE Team, Economic Evaluation and Analysis, Department of Health systems Governance and Financing
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    15.03.2023
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SCORE for Health Data Technical Package

The SCORE for Health Data Technical Package has been developed by WHO and partners to assist Member States in strengthening country data systems and capacities to monitor and track progress towards th...

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    WHO Division of Data, Analytics and Delivery for Impact (DDI)
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    15.03.2023
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Tobacco product regulation: basic handbook

WHO has launched a handbook on tobacco product regulation in response to the need for clear, practical guidance on tobacco product regulation.Although tobacco product use is a major public health prob...

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    No Tobacco Unit (TFI), WHO Study Group on Tobacco Product Regulation
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    28.02.2023
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    ISBN: 978-92-4-151448-4
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    CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO

Behavioural and social drivers of vaccination: tools and practical guidance for achieving high uptake

Understanding how people think, feel and act in relation to vaccination is vital to informing the development of strategies to generate acceptance and uptake for the vaccines. Generating and using dat...

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    Demand and Behavioural Science Team, WHO headquarters
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    22.02.2023
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    CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO

WHO Cervical Cancer Prevention and Control Costing (C4P) Tool

The Department of Immunization, Vaccines and Biologicals (IVB) in WHO has developed a generic costing and planning tool for cervical cancer prevention and control. The WHO Cervical Cancer Prevention a...

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    Department of Immunization, Vaccines and Biologicals (IVB)
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    15.03.2023
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Policy in action: a tool for measuring alcohol policy implementation

Europe has the highest alcohol consumption and alcohol-attributable disease burden in the world. In 2011, all 53 Member States of the WHO European Region endorsed the European action plan to reduce th...

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    WHO European Office for Prevention and Control of Non-Communicable Diseases
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    25.06.2024
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    9789289056700 (ISBN)
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Preventing child maltreatment: a guide to taking action and generating evidence

The main aim of this guide is to provide technical advice for setting up policies and programmes for child maltreatment prevention and victim services that take into full account existing evidence on...

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    Violence Prevention Unit, Department for the Social Determinants of Health
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    25.06.2024
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    ISBN 9241594365, 9789241594363
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How to implement influenza vaccination of pregnant women: An introduction manual for national immunization programme managers and policy makers

This manual serves as a primary resource and a catalogue of optional tools to help users to decide, plan and implement maternal influenza vaccination strategies and to foresee and address potential ch...

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    Initiative for Vaccine Research (IVR) of the Department of Immunization, Vaccines and Biologicals
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    25.06.2024
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    WHO/IVB/16.06
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Analysing and using routine data to monitor the effects of COVID-19 on essential health services: practical guide for national and subnational decision-makers: interim guidance, 14 January 2021

The objective of this guide is to help countries monitor and analyse the impact of COVID-19 on essential health services to ultimately inform planning and decision-making. It provides practical recomm...

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    02.07.2024
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    WHO/2019-nCoV/essential_health_services/monitoring/2021.1
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    CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO

Support tool to strengthen health information systems: guidance for health information system assessment and strategy development

This tool is an update of the 2015 Support tool to assess health information systems and develop and strengthen health information strategies. Both the global General Programme of Work and the Europea...

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    Data, Metrics and Analytics Unit in the Division of Country Health Policies and Systems of the WHO Regional Office for Europe
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    16.07.2024
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    ISBN: 978-92-890-5574-1
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    CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO

Climate change mitigation, air quality and health (‎CLIMAQ-H) tool

The Climate change mitigation, air quality and health (CLIMAQ-H) calculation tool allows quantification of the physical and economic consequences for human health achieved through improvements in coun...

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    Centre for Environment & Health (BON), Living & Working Environments (LWE), Water & Climate (WAC)
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    16.07.2024
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    ISBN: 9789289060196
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    CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO

Assessing financing, education, management and policy context for strategic planning of human resources for health

This document contains a method for assessing the financial, educational and management systems and policy context, essential for strategic planning and policy development for human resources for heal...

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    10.09.2024
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    ISBN: 9789241547314
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