How to scale-up: a comparative case study of scaling up a district health management strengthening intervention in Ghana, Malawi and Uganda
dc.contributor.author | Bulthuis, S. | |
dc.contributor.author | Kok, M. | |
dc.contributor.author | Onvlee, O. | |
dc.contributor.author | O’Byrne, T. | |
dc.contributor.author | Amon, S. | |
dc.contributor.author | Namakula, J. | |
dc.contributor.author | Chikaphupha, K. | |
dc.contributor.author | Gerold, J. | |
dc.contributor.author | Mansour, W. | |
dc.contributor.author | Raven, J. | |
dc.contributor.author | Broerse, J.E W. | |
dc.contributor.author | Dieleman, M. | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2023-02-08T14:36:01Z | |
dc.date.available | 2023-02-08T14:36:01Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2023 | |
dc.description | Research Article | en_US |
dc.description.abstract | Background The need to scale up public health interventions in low- and middle-income countries to ensure equitable and sustainable impact is widely acknowledged. However, there has been little understanding of how projects have sought to address the importance of scale-up in the design and implementation of their initiatives. This paper aims to gain insight into the facilitators of the scale-up of a district-level health management strengthening intervention in Ghana, Malawi and Uganda. Methods The study took a comparative case study approach with two rounds of data collection (2019 and 2021) in which a combination of different qualitative methods was applied. Interviews and group discussions took place with district, regional and national stakeholders who were involved in the implementation and scale-up of the intervention. Results A shared vision among the different stakeholders about how to institutionalize the intervention into the existing system facilitated scale-up. The importance of champions was also identified, as they influence buy-in from key decision makers, and when decision makers are convinced, political and financial support for scale-up can increase. In two countries, a specific window of opportunity facilitated scale-up. Taking a flexible approach towards scale-up, allowing adaptations of the intervention and the scale-up strategy to the context, was also identified as a facilitator. The context of decentralization and the politics and power relations between stakeholders involved also influenced scale-up. Conclusions Despite the identification of the facilitators of the scale-up, full integration of the intervention into the health system has proven challenging in all countries. Approaching scale-up from a systems change perspective could be useful in future scale-up efforts, as it focuses on sustainable systems change at scale (e.g. improving district health management) by testing a combination of interventions that could contribute to the envisaged change, rather than horizontally scaling up and trying to embed one particular intervention in the system. | en_US |
dc.identifier.other | https://doi.org/10.1186/s12913-023-09034-1 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://ugspace.ug.edu.gh:8080/handle/123456789/38569 | |
dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
dc.publisher | BMC Health Services Research | en_US |
dc.subject | Scale-up | en_US |
dc.subject | Barriers and facilitators | en_US |
dc.subject | District health management strengthening intervention | en_US |
dc.subject | LMICs | en_US |
dc.subject | Comparative case-study | en_US |
dc.title | How to scale-up: a comparative case study of scaling up a district health management strengthening intervention in Ghana, Malawi and Uganda | en_US |
dc.type | Article | en_US |
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