These factors influenced the implementation process and if not addressed, may reduce the effectiveness of the policy and scale-up.
To assess the effect of a home visit strategy combined with health facility strengthening on uptake of newborn care-seeking, practices and services, and to link the results to national policy and scale-up in Uganda.
The Uganda Newborn Study (UNEST) was conceived to adapt a community care package for maternal and newborn health and evaluate its effect on maternal and newborn care outcomes in order to inform policy and scale-up in Uganda.
Research to policy translation will require mutual trust between the researchers and the policy makers [ 36, 37], continued dialogue and engagement throughout the implementation of the study project so that timely and appropriate research findings can inform policy and scale-up interventions [ 38].
Reliability analyses of the survey revealed that five scales were not sufficiently reliable: the policy and regulations scale, the existing-collaborations scale, the willingness to change scale, the resources scale and the formalization scale.
In addition, it is concluded that municipal performance tends to improve with the environmental policy expenditure and scale size, and decline with buildings' age, population density and the proportion of buildings with private ownership.
At national level, drivers who have high influence can be instrumental in increasing policy influence and scale up [ 18].
Decision-makers need to assess these uncertainties in developing policies and scaling up interventions for malaria prevention.
The theme of the UNGEI meeting, "Gender and Early Childhood Care and Education," placed particular emphasis on supporting families and gender-focused policies and scaling up of quality early childhood care programmes.
The meeting focused on issues related to child survival policy and the scale-up of high-impact interventions such as skilled birth attendants, newborn care, integrated Community Case Management (iCCM) and stunting reduction.
