Table 3.

Activities and innovations for achieving Race to the Top objectives

Domain	Examples of activities and innovations
Increase community-based health insurance	• Community tontines (investment plans) to increase health insurance coverage
	• Campaigns to reach remote communities
	• Subsidized payments for vulnerable families
	• Partnership and collaboration with local authorities
	• Electronic databases for tracking community members
Increase uptake of contraception	• Active collaboration between local authorities and community health workers
	• Systematic assignment of community health worker to females within a specified catchment area
	• Active case finding of lost to follow-up patients
	• Integration of family planning across all health center services
	• Availability of family planning services 7 days a week
	• Use of quality improvement techniques such as PDSA cycles
	• Outreach visits for women in remote areas
Reduce severe acute malnutrition	• Integration of cooking demonstrations, severe acute malnutrition screenings and food support distribution within local communities
	• Active case finding of lost to follow-up children with severe acute malnutrition
	• Provision of livestock for extremely vulnerable families
	• Monthly provision of fish for families with children under-five
	• Electronic data base for patient tracking of children under-five with severe acute malnutrition

PDSA (Plan, Do, Study, Act).