Table 9 Top 10 cross-cutting MNCH SBCE research priorities

1

Improve the delivery of SBCE approaches to achieve universal health coverage of MNCH services for the most vulnerable populations

2

Understand the determinants of optimal uptake of maternal, newborn and child self-care and family care practices, and optimal care-seeking behaviour

3

Understand the determinants of health-worker behaviours and performance (including facility- and community-based health workers) that affect acceptability and utilisation of MNCH services and improve the delivery of approaches to address these determinants

4

Improve the delivery of approaches that address social norms (particularly gender norms) that cause delays in accessing appropriate MNCH care

5

Understand the determinants of optimal uptake of life-saving and other critical commodities for MNCH

6

Find new approaches and improve the delivery of existing approaches to scale up community mobilisation and engagement and to integrate them into healthcare services and other government systems for MNCH

7

Find new approaches and improve the delivery of existing approaches to enable effective learning, including peer-to-peer learning, engagement and empowerment of women, families and communities to foster behaviour change, health literacy and agency to improve MNCH

8

Improve the delivery of approaches to strengthen the integration of SBCE interventions into other services delivered by community health workers and community-based organisations to foster increased use of health services and improved MNCH

9

Find new approaches to measure emerging SBCE priorities (i.e. social inclusion, vulnerability, multi-sectorality and integration, and community capacity) to inform planning, programming and priority setting for MNCH

10

Understand the determinants and find new SBCE approaches to address women’s, newborns’ and children’s vulnerability to violence and injury