Project profile — Tabora Maternal and Newborn Health

The expected outcomes for this project include: (1) increased utilization of maternal and newborn health services by women and their families in targeted districts in Tanzania; and (2) improved availability of quality maternal and newborn health services in underserved districts in Tanzania.

Results achieved as of the end of the project (March 2022) include: (1) trained 997 community health workers (538 women; 459 men) on antenatal, postpartum, and newborn care, family planning, community-based maternal, newborn and child health monitoring and activities, referral system (to higher levels of care), and maternal death reporting; (2) reached 541,299 direct participants and 1,829,768 indirect participants through the project; (3) reached 964 TAMANI project participants (492 women, 472 men) through the project’s mobile communications campaign on COVID-19; (4) trained 124 council health management team members (55 women; 69 men), two regional health management team members and 94 health facility staff (34 women; 60 men) on how to develop comprehensive council health plans for reproductive, maternal, newborn and child health services; (5) trained 160 health care workers (105 women; 55 men) and 76 youth (38 girls; 38 boys) in youth-friendly sexual and reproductive health and rights spaces; (6) provided 40 villages (20 more villages than originally planned)with emergency transportation systems; (7) mentored 200 health care workers (107 women; 93 men) on comprehensive and basic emergency obstetric and newborn care and family planning (12 months after initial training); (8) equipped and rehabilitated 169 health facilities to provide emergency obstetric and newborn care; (9) reached 940 community health workers and 40 youth champions through radio talk shows with COVID-19 and gender-based violence messages; (10) provided 220 health care facilities (against a target of 170) with regular access to water; (11) equipped 174 health facilities (against a target of 150) to provide respectful maternity care; (12) provided 41,980 adults; 27,175 youth; and 15,708 adolescents with modern contraception at health facilities; (13) trained 997 community health workers (538 women; 459 men) and equipped them with bicycles and equipment, like bags; (14) trained 40 health care workers (17 women; 23 men) on COVID-19 case management, event-based surveillance and contact tracing; oriented 465 community health workers (240 women; 225 men) and 21 community leaders (13 women; 8 men) on COVID-19 event-based surveillance and contact tracing; and (15) procured and distributed 200 boxes of N95 masks (pack of 2 pieces); 32 boxes of surgical masks (pack of 50 piece); 16 boxes of examination gloves (50 pairs); 24 tins of chlorine tabs (pack of 100 tabs); 24 bottles of alcohol-based hand sanitizer (5 liters); 24 sets of liquid soap (pack of 16 bottles of 500 ml); 100 sets of heavy-duty PPE face shield gown and top cover (30M, 40L, 30XL); and 30 burial bags.