A blog by Faraz Khalid, Implementation Research Consultant for UNICEF Pakistan
An implementation research initiative of the Global Alliance for Vaccine & Immunization (GAVI), UNICEF, Alliance for Health Policy and Systems Research, and Health Services Academy, Islamabad demonstrates effective synergy between implementers and researchers.
The initiative aims to assess health systems bottlenecks in Pakistan’s Expanded Program for Immunization (EPI) program. Faraz Khalid shares reflections from the research teams at ten different implementation research projects across the four provinces in Pakistan. “Different from the usual experience of working in silos… the teams seemed to be surprisingly pleased with the support they were receiving from their partners – the implementers (policy-makers, managers and frontline workers) of the EPI in Pakistan.”
Faraz Khalid shares reflections from the research teams at ten different implementation research projects across the four provinces in Pakistan. “Different from the usual experience of working in silos… the teams seemed to be surprisingly pleased with the support they were receiving from their partners – the implementers (policy-makers, managers and frontline workers) of the Expanded Program for Immunization in Pakistan.”