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Improving Maternal, Newborn and Child Health

This project seeks to save the lives of women, newborns and children in Kenya and Liberia. The Canadian Red Cross Society and its partners in Kenya and Liberia work with the Ministries of Health in those countries to deliver a program in Integrated Community Case Management (iCCM), an approach to improve the health of pregnant women, newborns and children in 44 hard-to access rural communities. The project expects to reach 66,000 beneficiaries, including 12,000 children under five years old and 26,000 women of childbearing age in West Pokot District in Kenya and Bomi, Gbarpolu and Grand Gedeh Counties in Liberia. Ministry of Health-supervised community health workers and volunteers are selected by Community Health Committees and trained in community based health and first aid, in order to treat and refer sick children, and ensure community-level access to life-saving medications and basic health services.

Project ID

CA-3-S065431001

Activity status

4 - Post-completion

Aid type

C01 - Project-type interventions

% to Liberia

40.00

Organisations

Funding

Canada

Extending

Canadian International Development Agency

Implementing

Canadian Red Cross Society

CRS code	%
Health policy and administrative management (12110)	9.9999
Basic health care (12220)	19.9999
Basic nutrition (12240)	19.9999
Infectious disease control (12250)	9.9999
Health education (12261)	19.9999
Malaria control (12262)	9.9999
Health personnel development (12281)	9.9999