Table 2.

MERI change strategy activity examples: General and intervention-specific capacity.

Strategy	Examples
	General capacity	Intervention-specific capacity
Meetings	Gathering community members to develop a community-level action plan to improve resident health.	Gathering district health managers to prepare a maternal, newborn, and child health focused strategic plan.
Equipping	Providing a district with an ambulance to support emergency referral.	Providing each health facility with a bag and mask device to enable newborn resuscitation.
Training	Conducting a workshop for facility data managers to practice health management information analysis and graph preparation.	Conducting a simulation training workshop for clinical staff to practice case management of obstructed labor.
Mentorship	Facilitating a visit by a district health manager to a primary health facility to review patient triage and referral practices.	Facilitating a visit by a regional hospital pediatrician to a primary health facility to review recent sick child case management.