Project profile — Integrated Management of Maternal and Child Health in Artibonite (PRISMA)

1. Health institutions supported by the project will offer quality services that meet the needs of women and children under five. 2. Increase community mobilization around the fight against maternal and child mortality in particular, but also for hygiene, water, sanitation and the empowerment of women. 3. Departmental coordination mechanism facilitates the delivery of more effective treatments by health institutions.

Results achieved as of the end of the project (September 2015) include the following: (1) health care institutions developed their own resource management plans which were integrated as part of the regular operating and reporting systems of the Ministry of Health in the Artibonite Department; (2) the funded health care institutions were supplied with the equipment required for basic emergency obstetric and neonatal care (EmONC) clinics; (3) at the community level, 138 multi-service community health officers were trained and played a critical role in raising awareness of the issues and the availability of maternal, newborn and child health services in funded health care institutions; (4) approximately one third of these workers were appointed to the public service by the Ministry of Public Health and Population, with their salaries paid by the Government of Haiti. This is considered a success story for Haiti; (5) the project directly educated 81,254 persons (54,078 women and 27,176 men) about women’s rights and maternal, newborn and child health. All these efforts contributed to a more than 20% increase in the number of deliveries performed in funded EmONC clinics. The percentage of pregnant women in Artibonite benefiting from at least three prenatal visits increased from 19% to 34%.