Community Systems Foundation
The EQUitable Impact Sensitive Tool (EQUIST) is a medium-term analysis and strategic planning tool to improve child and maternal health as well as nutrition equity in developing and middle-income countries. Through the EQUIST User Guide, all users, and specifically Ministry of Health officials, international development partners and key stakeholders from the private sector, Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) and academic institutions, can learn how to operate EQUIST and perform various analyses.
To overcome bottlenecks, users can learn how to generate a situational analysis to better understand health sector inequities in a country. In addition, this analysis will highlight disadvantaged or vulnerable populations to help understand how wealth, geography, and location contribute to deprivation. Users can also learn to build country-specific scenarios to conduct a LiST, or Lives Saved Tool, analysis which aims to generate the impact of a given scenarios by suggesting potential costs and lives saved.
To overcome bottlenecks, users can learn how to generate a situational analysis to better understand health sector inequities in a country. In addition, this analysis will highlight disadvantaged or vulnerable populations to help understand how wealth, geography, and location contribute to deprivation. Users can also learn to build country-specific scenarios to conduct a LiST, or Lives Saved Tool, analysis which aims to generate the impact of a given scenarios by suggesting potential costs and lives saved.
