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Dagu Baseline report released
published 11 December 2017
published 11 December 2017
The Dagu project evaluates the Optimising the Health Extension Program in Ethiopia (OHEP) project that is addressing the critical under-utilisation of community-based services, particularly the use iCCM services and CBNC services. OHEP is led by the Ethiopian Federal Ministry of Health and implemented by UNICEF, PATH, Save the Children, and the Last 10 Kilometers Project, and Dagu is providing support for measurement, learning and evaluation.
IDEAS and Dagu work with four leading universities in Ethiopia, under the coordination of the Ethiopian Public Health Institute and supported by the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. The aim is for these universities to generate results that will empower demand creation innovations for integrated Community Case Management (iCCM) and Community Based Newborn Care (CBNC), which in turn can be used by the Regional Health Bureaus for Amhara, Southern Nations & Nationalities Peoples (SNNP), Oromia and Tigray to allow for evidence-based decision-making and course correction in the field of newborn and child health.