Purpose of toolkit
This toolkit has been developed in collaboration with partners from a variety of low- and middle-income country health settings, and is designed to support implementation planning in low-resource settings. Identifying barriers & facilitators, and developing strategies to address them, is key to the successful implementation of evidence-based clinical guidelines, policies or health systems interventions. The aim of this toolkit is to assist users in identifying Barriers & Facilitators that can impact the implementation of guidelines, practices and/or policies at three different levels; 1) the Patient/Community level; 2) The Provider level and; 3) the Health Systems level.
The toolkit also provides a list of potential strategies and resources, to assist users in selecting strategies to address identified Barriers & Facilitators in order to increase users’ success in the implementation of evidence-based guidelines, practices, and/or policies. The toolkit may be used online, downloaded to a computer or printed for use and can be used by a wide variety of users—including health workers (i.e. physicians, nurses, midwives etc.), policy makers (i.e. government officials), hospital administrators, researchers, and community members (i.e. patients and/or patients’ families etc.). A Rioplatense Spanish print version is also available through an embedded link in the toolkit instructions.