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Madagascar

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In Madagascar, IntraHealth International is partnering with the Research Triangle Institute (RTI) to provide overarching technical assistance in four strategic results areas: reproductive health/family planning, maternal and child nutrition, malaria, and HIV/AIDS. IntraHealth brings its expertise in overarching strategic results areas, quality of care, curriculum development, service provider training, and technical support for emergency obstetric care operations research.

Main project goals include:

• Improving the quality of health care and services
• Developing and implementing strategies to improve population coverage for emergency obstetrics and neonatal care (Community EONC Project)
• Working with local nongovernmental organizations and leaders to implement Champion Communities.

IntraHealth’s Madagascar-based staff are involved in pilot testing innovative strategies to improve population coverage for emergency obstetrics and neonatal care (Community EONC Pilot project); and adopting a continuum of care approach, providing technical assistance to scale up implementation of integrated best practices, norms, standards and guidelines, and quality systems.

These activities involve:

1. Ensuring service delivery excellence through SOTA approaches with emphasis on competency-based learning for performance approaches and development of supportive systems and tools (job aids, supervision systems, workforce planning tools)
2. Assisting with development of a one-system approach for quality assurance among communities by distilling, with stakeholders, the essential components of a quality assurance system derived from New Generation KM approach
3. Building capacity for monitoring quality of services through identification, collection, and use of appropriate data, and ensuring that appropriate data are collected on a regular basis to document quality improvements during the life of the project.

Madagascar is also a target country in the USAID-funded CapacityPlus, a five-year global USAID cooperative agreement to strengthen the health workforce needed to implement quality health programs in developing countries.

Current Projects:

• Santenet 2 (funded by USAID, led by RTI International)