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KNOWLEDGE CENTRE

From knowledge to action.

Learning guides for Sierra Leone’s communities, health workers and institutions, connecting information with local priorities.

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Learning guide

Understanding care across the life course.

MCHF’s reproductive, maternal, newborn and child health programme connects stages of life that are often discussed separately. The strategy treats information, community support and access to services as parts of one continuum.

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Learning guide

Confidence begins with clear information.

MCHF’s prevention agenda combines vaccine confidence, community engagement and links to routine services. This is an introduction to the programme approach; individual schedules and clinical questions belong with qualified health workers.

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Learning guide

What it means for communities to lead.

Community health is shaped by the information people receive, the services they can reach and the decisions they can influence. MCHF’s strategy includes participation, health literacy and equity together.

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Learning guide

Learning how evidence becomes useful.

The research programme focuses on locally relevant questions, practical learning and the translation of findings into programme decisions. An agenda describes what will be studied; it is different from a completed finding.

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Learning guide

The connections behind reliable care.

A health system includes the people, facilities, coordination and support that make services possible. MCHF’s strategy focuses on strengthening these connections through collaboration with local institutions.

UNDERSTAND THE APPROACH

Choose the right type of learning resource.

This library brings together institutional documents and strategy explainers. Different formats answer different questions.

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Strategy documents

Use the strategic plan to understand mission, programme priorities, implementation and review. Use the memorandum to understand governance.

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Strategy explainers

Short educational articles unpack concepts in the supplied documents. They describe the framework and should not be read as completed research findings.

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Research and reports

As these become available, consider the question, methods, date, findings and limitations before applying a conclusion in another context.

Framework: MCHF Strategic Plan 2027–2031 and institutional memorandum. This introduction explains the approach; it does not report completed programme results.

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