Overall targets
The overall objective of the proposed project is to develop and evaluate a sustainable community-based programme that decreases the number of newborns dying in impoverished settings
Immediate targets
1. Increase community level health literacy and engage and empower communities to take ownership of healthcare for their babies. 2. Improve the quality of neonatal service delivery in 12 clusters across Preah Vihear province. 3.Adapt and scale up AHC’s best-practice models for neonatal care in Preah Vihear’s referral hospitals
Target groups
Neonates, their caregivers and the communities they come from, as well as local healthcare workers in 12 health clusters in Preah Vihear province. These include • Over 2,200 children born in the DVF project area annually are expected to benefit from the general improvement in care available at the health centres and referral hospital, 56 nurses from 12 health centre and post clusters receiving intensive training and mentorship, 208 Village Health Support Group members and • 40 medical and nursing staff from the Referral Hospital who will receive intensitve, multi-day training to simulate and observe the best quality of neonatal care using Nursing Process and Essential Newborn Care (neonatal care, resuscitation and transfer).
Resume
The project aims to impact on neonatal mortality rates in Cambodia by :1. Increasing community level health literacy and engage and empower communities to take ownership of healthcare for their babies.by Mobilizing Village Community Support Groups covering all target villages in 12 health clusters (health centers with adjoining health posts and villages) Building capacity of 208 Community Support Group members to empower and mobilise their communities., Organising ten meetings annually with Community Support Group members 2.. Improve the quality of neonatal service delivery in 12 health centres and 6 health posts across Preah Vihear province by delivering resident training to 56 health center nurses and midwives in neonatal care to establish baby saving areas .3.:Train 40 medical and nursing stafff members in neonatal care in one of Preah Vihear’s two referral hospitals