The learnings from this study suggest that the AMIA villages already possess the needed ingredients for developing into sustained innovation platforms. The functional capacities of the AMIA village leaders could still be strengthened with regard to addressing institutional bottlenecks at all levels, e.g. by developing further change management, negotiation, and advocacy skills. This is not surprising given the early stage of implementation of many AMIA villages, and the iterative design of the process. The learnings from this study also point to an opportunity for the AMIA program to strengthen the system-wide innovation capacities more systematically.
Authors: Jana Koerner, Ruvicyn S. Bayot, Maggie Rosimo, Rene Vidallo, Julian Gonsalves