TY - JOUR AU - Penn-Kekana, Loveday AU - Powell-Jackson, Timothy AU - Haemmerli, Manon AU - Dutt, Varun AU - Lange, Isabelle L. AU - Mahapatra, Aniva AU - Sharma, Gaurav AU - Singh, Kultar AU - Singh, Sunita AU - Shukla, Vasudha AU - Goodman, Catherine PY - 2018 DA - 2018/09/24 TI - Process evaluation of a social franchising model to improve maternal health: evidence from a multi-methods study in Uttar Pradesh, India JO - Implementation Science SP - 124 VL - 13 IS - 1 AB - A prominent strategy to engage private sector health providers in low- and middle-income countries is clinical social franchising, an organisational model that applies the principles of commercial franchising for socially beneficial goals. The Matrika programme, a multi-faceted social franchise model to improve maternal health, was implemented in three districts of Uttar Pradesh, India, between 2013 and 2016. Previous research indicates that the intervention was not effective in improving the quality and coverage of maternal health services at the population level. This paper reports findings from an independent external process evaluation, conducted alongside the impact evaluation, with the aim of explaining the impact findings. It focuses on the main component of the programme, the “Sky” social franchise. SN - 1748-5908 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/s13012-018-0813-y DO - 10.1186/s13012-018-0813-y ID - Penn-Kekana2018 ER -