Social accountability for reproductive, maternal, newborn, child and adolescent health: A review of reviews.

ABSTRACT: Globally, increasing efforts have been made to hold duty-bearers to account for their commitments to improve reproductive, maternal, newborn, child and adolescent health (RMNCAH) over the past two decades, including via social accountability approaches: citizen-led, collective processes for holding duty-bearers to account. There have been many individual studies and several reviews of social accountability approaches but the implications of their findings to inform future accountability efforts are not clear. We addressed this gap by conducting a review of reviews in order to summarise the current evidence on social accountability for RMNCAH, identify factors contributing to intermediary outcomes and health impacts, and identify future research and implementation priorities. The review was

SUBMITTER: Squires F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7546481 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature