EQUIST Equitable strategies to save lives

Follows a stepwise approach, in which users first define and understand their target population, then select priority interventions to focus on and consider what bottlenecks affect the delivery of these interventions. Then they develop strategies to address the causes of the bottlenecks and estimate the costs and impacts of the strategies. The process can be repeated to compare alternative strategy options. Incorporates functionality of the Lives Saved Tool (LiST) to model lives saved and uses data and principles from the Marginal Budgeting for Bottlenecks (MBB) tool for costing component. It identifies cost-effective interventions, prioritizes key bottlenecks that constrain their coverage and targets the most effective and equity focused strategies that can address those bottlenecks to increase maternal, neonatal and child health, intervention coverage and fast track the reduction of maternal and child mortality, especially among deprived populations.