Community-Based Maternal Newborn and Child Health

This project aims to improve the health of the most marginalized mothers and children in the Dimla sub-district of Nilphamari district Bangladesh and in the Lilongwe and Ntchisi districts of Malawi. The project is designed to improve partnerships between communities and health facilities train community volunteer health workers and use community education to promote household behaviours that improve the health of mothers and children. Using an integrated model for managing childhood illness the project supports community health volunteers in providing malaria prevention and nutrition education at the household level and linking communities with maternal and child health services. The project reaches 200 community health volunteers traditional birth attendants and informal health service providers as well as 150 000 mothers and their children. World Renew is working in partnership with Scheme for Under-Privileged People to Organize Themselves (Bangladesh) and the Church of Central Africa Presbyterian Nkhoma Relief and Development (Malawi) to implement this project. This project is part of Canada's maternal newborn and child health commitment.