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Cambodia
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The goal of TASC/JSI’s project in Cambodia was
to help implement USAID/Cambodia’s maternal
and child health strategy, which is to increase the
supply of, the demand for, and the access to quality
healthcare. This work was done through the Reproductive
and Child Health Alliance (RACHA), a technical assistance
project USAID designed to support the national maternal
and child health program of the Ministry of Health.
RACHA provides technical assistance to help formulate
maternal and child health policy, improve the Ministry
of Health’s capabilities to provide quality
services, and to improve the Ministry of Health’s
drugs and contraceptives logistics system.
Most of the activities for this project were conducted
in 1998 and 1999. During this time TASC/Cambodia—
- Supported the annual maternal and child health
planning process in three provinces and
four operational districts.
- Worked to strengthen the health information
system.
- Improved quality of services by implementing
the self-improvement system (SIS). SIS involves
three elements: continuing education workshops
where staff from the health centers decide and
document what they are going to do to improve
the quality of their work; the use of self-assessment
at the workplace; and periodic external assessment.
- Strengthened maternal and child health outreach
services, in part by marketing products
such as home birth kits.
- Developed feedback committees on a village
level to establish close relations between community
leadership and health center staff.
- Improved health communications through
the use of selected messages and visual aids.
- Worked with Cambodian Health Education Development
(CHED), a local NGO, to determine resource-efficient
ways to address diarrheal diseases and manage
acute respiratory infections.
- Worked with village committees to plan, organize,
and construct two wells, and to prepare for the
construction of four more wells to help provide safe
water.
- Supported the establishment of community credit
activities to improve family income (with
concomitant impact on family food consumption
and access to healthcare), and to find a
sustainable method to support village health
promotion activities.
- Worked with the Expanded Program on Immunizations (EPI)
to develop strategies to eliminate neonatal tetanus.
TASC/JSI was granted a no-cost extension for its projects
in Cambodia for 2000 and 2001. Under this extension
TASC/JSI worked to:
- Improve the procurement ordering of the Essential
Drugs Bureau of the Ministry of Health.
- Further refine the information systems within
the Ministry of Health.
- Produce a nationwide stock level report.
- Perform a systems analysis for the extension
of the information system.
- Provide training in life-saving skills for midwives.
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