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Posted 11 months ago #
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Dear friends and colleagues,
what a pleasure to be in touch with you again!I'd love to know whether and how you use the material we covered in the course, whether you have disseminated or discussed with colleagues, whether you're making any plans to take your evaluations forward, to examine your roadmaps, to operationalise your M&E plans, or maybe you are using the logical framework approach to planning in another field. Please let us hear about it.
For my part, I'm preparing for the next cohort of MSc students at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and thinking about the next Ipact training course which will be held in Dhaka, Bangladesh in December. I'm looking especially carefully at two sessions: the economic evaluation and the session on checking quality of data. If anyone has any thoughts about these two (or any others for that matter) please let me know.
I'd like to tell you about a document I received this morning from Dr Vincent Fauveau, senion RH advisor with UNFPA. It's a handbook for Monitoring EmOC.
I've copied part of the Executive Summary below. If you'd like me to send you the document in zipped Adobe format, please let me know.
Best wishes to you all.
KrystynaExecutive summary (extract)
In June 2006, an international panel of experts participated in a technical consultation in Geneva to discuss modifications to the existing indicators for EmOC and revisions to the Guidelines, taking into account the accumulated experience and increased knowledge in the area of maternal health care. The present handbook contains the agreed changes, including two new indicators and an additional signal function, with updated evidence and new resources.The purpose of this handbook is to describe the indicators and to give guidance on conducting studies to people working in the field. It includes a list of life-saving services, or ‘signal functions’, that define a health facility with regard to its capacity to treat obstetric and newborn emergencies. The emphasis is on actual rather than theoretical functioning. On the basis of the performance of life-saving services in the past 3 months, facilities are categorized as ‘basic’ or ‘comprehensive’.
The section on signal functions also includes answers to frequently asked questions.
The EmOC indicators described in this handbook can be used to measure progress in a programmatic continuum from the availability of and access to EmOC to the use and quality of those services.
The indicators address the following questions:
• Are there enough facilities providing EmOC?
• Are the facilities well distributed?
• Are enough women using the facilities?
• Are the right women (i.e. women with obstetric complications) using the facilities?
• Are enough critical services being provided?
• Is the quality of the services adequate?The handbook provides a description of each indicator, how it is constructed and how it can be used; the minimum and/or maximum acceptable level (if appropriate); the background of the indicator; data collection and analysis; interpretation and presentation of the indicator; and suggestions for supplementary studies. There is a further section on interpretation of the full set of indicators. Sample forms for data collection and analysis are provided.
Use of these EmOC indicators to assess needs can help programme planners to identify priorities and interventions. Regular monitoring of the indicators alerts managers to areas in which advances have been made and those that need strengthening. Close attention to the functioning of key services and programmes can substantially and rapidly reduce maternal mortality in developing countries.
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Hi, Krystina, just wanted to let you know that iam able to log in. I will respond to the information above later. Thanks Mary
Posted 11 months ago # -
Great, we'll be in touch. Krystyna
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Hi Krystina
Thanks for the information. I shall communicate with my colleagues regarding the above concern. I would also like to request you to send me the document on monitoring of EmOC
regards
miriamPosted 11 months ago # -
Hi, Krystina
This is Irene, how nice to have a chat with you again after a long time. could you please send me the UNFPA document on monitoring Emonc, I think it will be more helpful to me since we are going to present our needs for next year to UNFPA , it could help us to identify an area which we might have left out as priority.
Regards
IrenePosted 10 months ago # -
Hi Irene,
good to hear from you. How are you all, and how is Namibia?
I wonder how best to send the document. It's quite large so difficult to download but please try http://www.unfpa.org/public/publications/pid/3073
Otherwise I'll send it just now on your email address. Please let me know whether you find it.
There are other resources too that are on the UNFPA website - please take a look at http://www.unfpa.org/mothers/obstetric.htm
All the best. Let me know if I can be of any more help.
Best wishes, KrystynaPosted 10 months ago #
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