Project profile — Improving Community Health

Results achieved as of September 2013 include: In Mali: (i) training health care facility staff in Community Case Management (CCM), a strategy to deliver lifesaving interventions in communities with limited access to formal health facilities; (ii) conducting a mapping exercise to determine the best placement for community health agent sites and satellite villages within each health district; (iii) providing 11 training sessions for community health agents on CCM of malaria, pneumonia, and diarrhea; (iv) conducting five training sessions for supervisors of community health agents on supervising the CCM of malaria, pneumonia and diarrhea; and (v) distributing a training guide, supervising guidelines and other tools to supervisors of community health agents to help them effectively fulfill their supervisory role. In Pakistan, (i) providing reference manuals, checklists and toolkits to all of the targeted Lady Health Workers and Lady Health Supervisors trained in four training sessions; and (ii) training 84 out of 96 facility-based healthcare providers on CCM and community based management of acute malnutrition. These results are contributing to increasing access to available and improved quality referral services for severe cases of malaria, pneumonia, diarrhea in Mali and Pakistan, and complicated cases of severe and acute malnutrition in Pakistan; and increasing community and Ministry of Health capacity to manage and support effective health and nutrition programs.