'The development sector is a graveyard of pilot projects!' Six critical actions for externally funded implementers to foster scale-up of maternal and newborn health innovations in low and middle-income countries

• Main Authors: Neil Spicer (Author), Yashua Alkali Hamza (Author), Della Berhanu (Author), Meenakshi Gautham (Author), Joanna Schellenberg (Author), Feker Tadesse (Author), Nasir Umar (Author), Deepthi Wickremasinghe (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2018-07-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background Donors often fund projects that develop innovative practices in low and middle-income countries, hoping recipient governments will adopt and scale them within existing systems and programmes. Such innovations frequently end when project funding ends, limiting longer term potentia...