An article just published in the May issue of Reproductive Health Matters analyzes how Pathfinder International and its partners' are making key design and implementation decisions that look ahead to future sustainability and scalability as part of an innovative, multi-sectoral population, health and environment (PHE) pilot project in East Africa. Applying twelve recommendations from ExpandNet/WHO's guidance entitled "Beginning with the end in mind," the Health of People and Environment in the Lake Victoria Basin (HoPE-LVB) Project team has already learned several important lessons throughout this process that warranted sharing, especially since ensuring success with scaling up has become a major area of focus for the global health and development communities.

The paper states that: "Cross-sectoral collaboration is emphasized in a range of policies throughout East Africa. This provides a supportive context for scaling up HoPE-LVB interventions because few other initiatives have demonstrated how these policy goals can be operationalized. The success of this demonstration project is viewed as especially important in light of the post-2015 development agenda, which is also taking an integrated view of population, health, the environment and economic development." Reproductive health advocates will likely be interested to learn how best practices in family planning and maternal health are being successfully integrated with other areas of development such as environmental and lake ecosystem conservation and eco-friendly, alternative livelihoods in Kenya and Uganda.

To access the article on Science Direct: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0968808014437613

To read more about Pathfinder's work on the HoPE-LVB project: http://www.pathfinder.org/our-work/projects/health-of-people-and-environment-within-lake-victoriaenvironment-within-lake-victoria-kenya-uganda.html

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