Project profile — Community-Based Maternal, Newborn and Child Health
Overview
Overview
| CA-3-S065337001 | |
| $688,881 | |
| World Renew (CA-CRA_ACR-2118857366) | |
| 2011-10-14 - 2015-04-30 | |
| Closed |
Country / region
• Malawi (50.00%)• Bangladesh (50.00%)
Sector
• Basic HealthBasic nutrition (12240) (30.00%)
• Basic Health
Health education (12261) (20.00%)
• Basic Health
Malaria control (12262) (20.00%)
• Population Policies/Programmes And Reproductive Health
Reproductive health care (13020) (30.00%)
Policy marker
• Gender equality (significant objective)• Environmental sustainability (cross-cutting) (not targeted)
• Participatory development and good governance (significant objective)
• Trade development (not targeted)
• Biodiversity (not targeted)
• Climate change mitigation (not targeted)
• Climate Change Adaptation (not targeted)
• Urban issues (not targeted)
• Desertification (not targeted)
• Children's issues (significant objective)
• Youth Issues (not targeted)
• Indigenous Issues (not targeted)
• Disability (not targeted)
• ICT as a tool for development (not targeted)
Description and results
Description
This project aims to improve the health of the most marginalized mothers and children in the Dimla sub-district of Nilphamari district, Bangladesh, and in the Lilongwe and Ntchisi districts of Malawi. The project is designed to improve partnerships between communities and health facilities, train community volunteer health workers, and use community education to promote household behaviours that improve the health of mothers and children. Using an integrated model for managing childhood illness, the project supports community health volunteers in providing malaria prevention and nutrition education at the household level and linking communities with maternal and child health services. The project reaches 200 community health volunteers, traditional birth attendants and informal health service providers, as well as 150,000 mothers and their children. World Renew is working in partnership with Scheme for Under-Privileged People to Organize Themselves (Bangladesh) and the Church of Central Africa Presbyterian, Nkhoma Relief and Development (Malawi) to implement this project. This project is part of Canada's maternal, newborn and child health commitment.
Results achieved
Results as of March 31, 2014 include: 14,625 households are receiving messages that promote behaviors for better maternal, newborn and child health. In Bangladesh, 53 female community health volunteers and 53 female traditional birth attendants have been trained on maternal and newborn care and are doing home visits to pregnant women to educate them on eating nutritious foods, going for antenatal care visits, making birth preparedness plans and watching for danger signs that indicate a need to go to the health facility. These volunteers are currently doing home visits to 3,325 households. 106 informal service providers have been trained to reduce harmful practices and to increase appropriate referrals for mothers and newborns. In Malawi, 600 (231 male and 369 female) community health volunteers have been recruited and organized into 40 Care Groups. They are doing monthly home visits to 9,600 households that have a pregnant woman and/or children under age two and are delivering messages about malaria prevention and treatment and proper nutrition for pregnant and lactating women and children under two.
Financials
Financials
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Related information
Related information
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Related links • Partner website — World Renew |
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| Global Affairs Canada | |
| KFM Partnerships for Devlpmnt Innovation | |
| Aid grant excluding debt reorganisation | |
| Bilateral | |
| Project-type interventions |
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