Progress to Date
Making pregnancy a safe experience for
Mothers, Babies and Everyone
1. Malawians are
Engaged in Improving
Maternal and newborn
health
2. A functional MDSR
system is established
from Community to
National level
3. Improved Evidence
for Decision Making
Milestones
Milestones
Milestones
1. Launch national evidence based
1. Community groups mobilised
in 6 focal districts, to agree and
establish process for c-MDRs
1. Existing sources of
disaggregated data collated and
presented on E4A website
2. Increase number of visit to 500
national website per month.
2. MDR system includes the
collection of data on factors
contributing to maternal death at
community level
2. use of table tablets/hand held
devices to report maternal and
newborn deaths
3. Engage 50 advocates/ activists
3. Implementation of c-MDRs in 6
districts
3. Workshops for decision-makers
to enable them to make better use
of existing evidence
4. Increase positive reporting of
MNH stories by the media
4. 3,500 people supported to hold
decision-makers to account
4. District Dashboard mechanism
designed and piloted in two E4A
focal districts
Non Log frame Milestones
Non Log frame Milestones
Non Log frame Milestones
1. Establish 12 Mamaye clubs
1. Sub committe on health
1. Seminar Series
campaign (including website:
2. Increase Blood availability in
hospitals
3. Break the silence on newborn
Mamaye MW Website Hits
700
600
500
400
hits
Monthly hits
300
2013 target
Median
200
100
0
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2.
3.
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7.
8.
Meeting with Editors
MOU with Zodiak Broadcasting station
Media training on positive reporting
District Media networks
MBC tv Mamaye Programme
Nation and Malawi news papers columns
Media in district project teams
Boma lathu
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
MOU with MBTS
Tested Community Blood campaign in
Mchinji
World Blood Donor Day ( schools and
corporate world)
Mobilized first time donors who donated 34
units for KCH Paediatric ward
Meetings with MBTS to test new ideas on
donor recruitment, retention
District
Type of MDSR structure identified
Mangochi
Community Action Groups
Balaka
CAGs
Ntcheu
Safe motherhood Task Forces
Mchinji
MDR Committees
Kasungu
Village Health Committees
Ntchisi
…..Women Groups
National level
1.
Tools and guidelines
a.
b.
E4A Participated in the process
Given a task to develop the national verbal autopsy tool
2. National MDSR workshop
Next steps
1. Co facilitate with RHD on zonal and district level MDSR trainings
We count people Mamaye has reached out to
with messages on accountability.
Over 8900 counted and recorded
1.
2.
3.
4.
District teams
Extended DHMT meetings – NU, BLK, MH,
MC
SE zonal meeting
National MDSR workshop
We plan conduct the same in the other two
zones
1. Engagement with Baobab
2. Submitted a concept
3. Prototype developed
4. Visits to Bwaila to appreciate system
5. Buy in of Lilingwe DHO
6. Baobab now developing the programme for
testing this year
1. Malawians are
Engaged in Improving
Maternal and newborn
health
2. A functional MDSR
system is established
from Community to
National level
3. Improved Evidence
for Decision Making
Milestones
Milestones
Increase number of visit to
national website per month.
(1000)
Data on factors contributing to
maternal deaths in 6 districts
disseminated to area
development committees, RHU
and other key stakeholders via the
national safe motherhood task
force
Analysis of disaggregated data of
maternal mortality from MICS
2013- Report of finding and
workshop
Work with MBTS to collect 10000
units of blood BDAW
10 000 people supported to hold
decision-makers to account
ICT design to be tested to report
MDs,and evaluated. Scheme
introduced in three districts
District dashboard mechanism
introduced in all E4A focal
districts
Discussion