Progress Report by Interventions IMCI Sample Clauses

Progress Report by Interventions IMCI. Plan’s IMCI intervention in this child survival project, which began in 2000, preceded the government roll-out of IMCI in Cameroon by two years. Initially, Plan trained all of the 46 health facility staff working in the three project districts using a 6-day IMCI training, which was later to be followed up by the standard 11-day IMCI training recommended by WHO. The project then began working with the health facility staff to support them in fully integrating IMCI into their daily practice at the health centers in all three districts. Two years later, in 2002 the MOH initiated the pilot IMCI program in Cameroon, selecting three districts to begin with – Doume District in the East Province with Plan, Ngaoundere District in the Adamaoua Province with UNICEF, and Eseka District in the Centre Province with UNFPA (who eventually dropped out due to funding constraints, and WHO has assumed responsibility for this district). Only 30% (6 out of 20) of the health facility staff in Doume District was then provided with the standard 11-day IMCI training that the MOH had adapted for Cameroon. However, during the life of the project there was a high turnover of the few trained staff, causing a significant negative impact on health center activities (including outreach) and management. Furthermore, the WHO/UNICEF recommended assessment necessary for the implementation of the C-IMCI component still needs to be completed, while another batch of 6 staff from Doume health district is currently undergoing the 11-day training, which began September 6th. Given this history, it was decided that during the final evaluation of this child survival project, only the data for Doume District would be used to measure the impact of the IMCI intervention. It was further decided that the IMCI data would be presented for both trained (11-day) and untrained health facility staff. The number of children 0-23 months seen at health facilities that were assessed for all danger signs 10.5% 72% 42.3% The number of caretakers who were correctly counseled about their sick child 36.3% 97% 65.4% The number of caretakers who were given oral medications, who know how to correctly administer the treatment 44.8% 84.6% 34.6% The following analysis is based on the data for Doume District for both trained and untrained health facility staff, and target beneficiaries. and the targeted 80% was not achieved. Even though the KPC showed this low increase, FGD during the final evaluation showed that many mothers d...