In 2013, the Makerere University School of Public Health (MakSPH), together with Save the Children’s Saving Newborn Lives program (SNL) in Uganda, established the Makerere University Centre of Excellence for Maternal-Newborn Health Research (CMNHR). The purpose of establishing the CMNHR was to strengthen the links between knowledge, policies and implementation of MNH programs through generating local evidence based on local priorities that could support the implementation and scaling up of MNH services.
The report documents the evaluation of the CMNHR undertaken by Save the Children in 2017 to understand how it was established, assess its core activities, and describe its plans for sustainability.
The brief summarizes the main findings of the CMNHR evaluation report.