Donor
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Budget
10,000,000.00 (USD)
Partner Organisations
London School of Hygiene &Tropical Medicine
University College London
Institute of Global Health
Makerere University
Karolinska Institutet
Ministry of Health of Uganda
Ministry of Health of Mozambique
Start Date
09/10/2009
End Date
31/03/2016
The Innovations at Scale for Community Access and Lasting Effects (inSCALE) project was a seven-year multi-country study conducted in Uganda (Midwestern region) and Mozambique (Inhambane province). The inSCALE project aimed to demonstrate that government-led integrated community case management (iCCM) programmes could be scaled up while maintaining quality of care by addressing the common barriers to iCCM implementation emphasised in the literature. This was to be achieved by:
The inSCALE project conducted extensive formative research to develop two intervention packages that were evaluated through cluster randomised controlled trials. The two interventions were: