This plan seeks to address priority issues to improve maternal health and reduce maternal mortality, identified in the policy and management MNH needs assessment, two national stakeholder workshops to identify key issues and identify priority interventions (national MNH community health workshop (2018) and MNH SWOT analysis (2019), recommendations from the second national obstetric conference (2019), maternal deaths audits and a literature review.
This Action Plan covers a 15 month period, from July 2019 - September 2020 and focusses on priority interventions to promote maternal health and prevent maternal deaths. Outcomes, outputs and key interventions are formulated in the folowing areas:
Multisectoral planning and coordination; Availability, accesibility, acceptability and quality of maternal health services; Health promotion, including community participation and involvement, to increase awareness and demand for maternal healh services; Increased access and use of modern contraceptive methods, including amongst adolescents; Strategic information, including maternal deaths surveillance, review and response.
Purpose:
Improved maternal health and reduction of maternal mortality and morbidity
General Objectives:
Prevent maternal mortality and morbidity through improved planning and coordination, accountability, quality of care and health promotion interventions;
Prioritize interventions to prevent maternal mortality and morbidity through improved availability and use of strategic information.
