Implementing Partner: Community Development Program
Project Focus
- Reproductive health and hygiene promotion
- Orientation and training of Traditional Birth Attendants (TBAs)
Methodology
- Selection of 100 TBAs-5 TBAs per UC
- Out of the total 20 Target (Rural) Union Councils – (180 villages approximate)
- 45 days training to be conducted by the district health department staff according to the standards
- Trainings to focus on the necessary skills needed to TBAs for their effective work in the communities
- TBAs certification from District Health Authorities
- TBAs would be involved in antenatal care, delivery care, and postnatal care services
Free Medical Camps
- These would serve as mobilization campaign which will focus on the awareness and treatment of specially the women and children diseases of that target area
- Doctors and specialist (male and female) would be present beside the required necessary medicines for the immediate treatment
- Camps would be organized and facilitated the strategy will be to conduct them inside some premises like schools and existing BHUs, community center etc so that women could easily come
- This would be more useful to the women folk who would be easily benefitting by visiting the camp
- With the organization of the 20 free medical camps specially the women and children will benefit
- Approximately 3000 women and children would also get free medicines, health and hygiene lessons by the doctors
Implementation Strategy
- A close coordination mechanism to be developed with the stakeholders including the local government representatives at all levels
- The Health Department would be extensively involved for smooth implementation of the project activities
M & E Mechanism
- The field staff would conduct monitoring visits on regular basis
- Program Manager would monitor all the project and field staff activities on bi monthly basis
- The funding agency may conduct monitoring at any time during the implementation stage
- Evaluation of the project will be conducted on quarterly basis with focus on key outcomes and impact assessment
Sustainability
- Hundred skilled TBAs at the grassroots level will ensure the long impacts of the project
- The mobilization campaigns will aware the people of the target areas enabling them to benefit from the facilities provided by the project and government
Overview
- The proposed project has been designed on need basis based on the genuine needs of the targeted rural communities
- The project is very practical and will be welcomed by the target population
- The proposed project is also very cost effective
- Once successfully implemented the project would become one of the most sustainable project ever seen