MOMENTUM Integrated Health Resilience (MIHR), funded by USAID, works in fragile settings to strengthen the capacity and resilience of both community and health systems in focus countries to enable them to plan and implement health strategies that reach target populations while addressing the underlying determinants of poor health and the impacts of fragility. In South Sudan, MIHR will work in 6 counties to improve the availability, quality, and utilization of an essential package of family planning, reproductive health (FP/RH), and maternal, newborn, and child health (MNCH) services; improve the governance and accountability of health systems; and increase the adoption of healthy behaviors and demand for health services, with the goal of a more resilient health system that supports improved health outcomes.
Working in complex environments while sequencing, layering, and integrating public health activities across the humanitarian development nexus requires in-depth contextual awareness for effective programming. To initiate work in these fragile settings, MIHR has created the F2C (Fragility, Crisis, Complexity) combined assessment tool that will inform the project design and monitoring systems for crisis-sensitive and complexity-aware programming.
The purpose of this assessment is to better understand the context where MIHR will work in South Sudan, specific shocks (including conflict and other crises), and stresses that are both more likely in fragile settings and perpetuate fragility. This information will enable MIHR/South Sudan to initiate evidence-based crisis-sensitive interventions that build resilience through strengthening absorptive, adaptive, and transformative capacity. Information will also inform monitoring systems that allow MIHR/South Sudan to track the context surrounding the project’s interventions at the district, facility, and community levels.
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