Results achieved as of the end of the project (June 2021) include: (1) 83.33% of public health centres supported by the project now provide all essential maternal and child health services, based on the criteria of Haiti’s Ministry of Public Health and Population (no institution provided all of them before the project began); (2) 38,778 pregnant women received at least 1 prenatal visit at a facility supported by the project; (3) 142,790 children under the age of 5 (74,365 girls and 67,544 boys) and 32,335 women (24,942 of whom were pregnant and 7,393 were nursing) received dietary supplements that were not being offered in the intervention areas at the start of the project; (4) multi-skilled community health workers carried out 227,937 home visits and 15,089 gatherings during the project for mothers, pregnant women, nursing women, children and newborns (these visits covered 90% of the people targeted by the project); (5) 9 health facilities were renovated to provide care that is better suited to the population’s needs; (6) the 6 emergency obstetrical and neonatal care facilities supported by the project carried out an average 295 deliveries per month (despite the COVID pandemic, this represents a 71.51% increase from the baseline data); (7) 229,030 direct beneficiaries (43 of whom were men, 145,257 were women and 83,739 were children under the age of 5) received maternity services and were treated for acute malnutrition; and (8) 455,699 indirect beneficiaries had increased access to improved health services in their communities and increased awareness of issues related to maternal and child health, nutrition, sexual and reproductive health and rights, and gender-based violence.
