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| Project Name: | Okumi |
| Project Description: |
OKUMI is a three-year Child Survival/Reproductive Health project in Nampula Province in northern Mozambique that aims to increase access and demand for quality child survival and reproductive health services. CARE is working in partnership with Save the Children US on this project. Okumi (in the Macua language, means peoples health); Project aims to:
Increase access to quality CS/RH services by:
o strengthening primary health services at the facility level and
o establishing and expanding community health servicesIncrease community demand for quality CS/RH services through:
o improved peoples'health knowledge and attitudes and
o increased community awareness of available services. Some of the components of the Okumi strategy include:
Continuing education and supervision of health workers
Establishing Partner Defined Quality (PDQ) processes in which community members and service providers together determine priorities and strategies.
Strengthening local NGOs/CBOs and their role in community health improvements
Training community health teams and health workers in BCC
Counseling and education and through Mobile Brigades and Monthly Health Days
Strengthening community leadership councils (TBAs, THs, traditional leaders)
Community-based distribution of condoms, pills, ORS, Vit. A., anti-malarials.
By the end of the project, the 14 focus districts of the Nampula Okumi Project will see:
65% of children receiving Vitamin A supplements
50% of children fully immunized
10% of women using modern contraception
20 % of households using Insecticide treated Bednets (ITNs)55% of deliveries professionally assisted |
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