Ugandan Maternal Health
Partnership Hub
Dr Carol Porter
NEEDS? COMMUNICATION:CONSOLIDATION:
SUSTAINABILITY
• Improve Maternal and Infant Health
• Improve Inter-Project Collaboration (to support
Sustainability and Reduce Vulnerability)
• Encourage North-South and South-South
(within country) Knowledge Transfer
• Promote Integration with Health Systems (and
improved Engagement)
• Improve Evaluation and Audit (understandings
of what works and why)
• Consolidate and Mobilise Additional Resources
Team-Building
Project Steering Group
• Professor Ackers and Dr Porter
• Steve Mwesige, Records Manager, Dept Obs
• Professor Walker (RCOG) and Dr Murokora
(AOGU)
• Dr Anthony Mbonye (Ministry of Health)
• Dr Josaphat Byamugisha
• Dr Claudia Hudspeth, Chief of Health, UNICEF
Uganda
Mechanisms
Outcome 1: Familiarisation and Communication
• Familiarisation with respective projects, challenges and
activities.
Activity 1.1 Information and Communication System
• dedicated website &email distribution) linking UOHPs:
• providing ‘live’ details of visits, training activities, a
forum for downloadable resources and interface with
other websites and RCOG initiative
Outcome 2: Collaborative Training
Identify discrete initiatives with a view to developing
common protocols, training and evaluation systems
closed linked to local policy and practice using every
opportunity for relationship building and encouraging
inter-project connectivity and mobility on a SouthSouth and North-South basis.
• Monitoring and Evaluation
• Obstetric First Aid (Community Triage);The African
Maternal Early Warning Score ; Aseptic techniques;
Infant resuscitation; Community transport; Drugs
dispensing, stock control and pharmacy.
Kiwi Delivery? – knowledge transfer from Mbale to Kabbuba?
Backed by evidence-based research: Assisted Delivery in Rural
Areas?
Harness and Optimise Structured Volunteering
Opportunities
Pilot, develop pre-visit training programmes – potentially as incomegeneration opportunity – building on Kabbuba/LMP
Activity 2.1 2 Day Kick-off Workshop (Liverpool)
• Day 1 – Project familiarisation and Communication. The co-ordinating
team will prepare in advance using the knowledge acquired from our
previous workshop and interviews conducted for the IHLC Evaluation to
identify key areas for discussion and potential shared objectives.
• Day 2 – Focused working groups targeting specific training needs. 1 of
these will focus on record keeping and evaluation. Others might include
those listed above.
Funding will support local travel and Ugandan participation including a
senior policy maker.
The Ugandan visitors will be hosted for a week at one of the Partnerships
(other than their own).
Activity 2.2 Co-ordinator Site Visits (2 weeks)
• Familiarisation with local context, relationship-building
with a focus on identified priorities, M&E.
Activity 2.3 Inter-Project Mobility
• Joint participation in planned training events
eg High Dependency Obstetric Care, Mulago: Obstetric
Anaesthesia, Mbarara).
• Funds will support responsive within-country travel to
training events. Individuals will be required to apply for
funding and provide feedback.
The Commonwealth Fellowships: UK Based
Training and Team-Building
Activity 2.4 Training and Project Development
Intense training with 1 month spent in host partnerships
1 week together in the Liverpool Centre for International
Maternal Health for knowledge exchange, communitybuilding, interim evaluation and project development.
Tailored course focused on aspects of Healthcare
partnership including project management, human
resource/financial management combined with
multidisciplinary team training in priority areas. We will
organise co-ordinated pre-visit activities for Fellows.
Outcome 3 Training Materials
Production of Protocols and Training Materials
representing the collective efforts of the Hub
for piloting in the Implementation Phase.
Activity 3.1 Working together through
workshops, visits and on-going relationshipbuilding we will produce new/revised training
materials
Outcome 4 Capacity-Building in M&E
Activity 4.1
Specific training in M&E building on LMP
expertise.
Collaboration with the MOH and UAOG to
identify opportunities to develop basic
standardisation and align record keeping
/M&E processes.
Outcome 4 Building Capacity in Evidence Based Local Policy Making
through effective record keeping and data analysis and reporting
Encouraging
Sustainable
and
Appropriate
Equipment
Donation
Strategies
Building on LMP/British
Commonwealth Fellowships
Training; ‘Training the Trainers’
Developing
standardised/co-ordinated
systems – sharing software
and anti-virus protection
Integrating the Work with the Ministry of Health Resources Unit and its
Health Information Management Systems (HMIS)
Creating a safe data repository
Overall Project Monitoring and
Evaluation
• Comprehensive and coordinated reflexive ‘actionresearch’ approach
• Initial project analysis and familiarisation capturing
individual project dynamics and priorities and existing
M&E systems (Interviews and Visits)
• On-going communication, interviews etc to assess
progress/challenges
• Collation of information on joint activities,
participation in mobility, training
• Close engagement with M&E activity to generate
aggregate data for project evaluation
• Interim and Final Evaluation Report
Dissemination
• On-going Process via the website
• Built in Dissemination Activities (Policy
Workshops etc.)
• Dissemination of Project Reports via THET
conference (if appropriate)
• Centre for International Maternal Health