About the study A study of scale-up focussing on the north-eastern Nigerian states of Gombe, Bauchi, Yobe, Borno, Adamawa and Taraba forming part of the IDEAS project at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine.
Study Aim To understand what enables or inhibits scale-up of maternal and newborn health innovations.
Methods Fifty in-depth, key-informant interviews conducted in 2012 with federal and state government staff, development agencies, programme implementers and other civil society organisations, academics, researchers, experts and professional medical associations.
Scope This summary presents evidence from the study. We focus on what interviewees report as the most important ways externally funded* maternal and newborn health programmes can catalyse scale-up* of their innovations*, and the major challenges to achieving this. We include illustrative quotations from interviewees in italics.
Target Audiences Government, development agencies and implementers in the field of maternal and newborn health.
