Currently operating in 20 countries, the USAID ASSIST Project supports the application of modern improvement methods by host country providers and managers in USAID-assisted countries and seeks to generate new knowledge to increase the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of applying improvement methods in low- and middle-income countries. These activities seek to implement evidence-based practices, not only for antenatal, intra- and post-partum, postnatal, and early childhood care, but also to prevent and treat the leading causes of death across the life course at all levels of health service delivery system. The project also works to strengthen community-based services and community linkages with facility-based care as well as continuity of care across different levels of health service delivery.