Community-based newborn care

Community-Based Newborn Care (CBNC) is a national Ethiopian initiative launched in 2013 as a means of bringing life-saving care to mothers and newborns at the community level within the Ethiopian health system.

CBNC aims to improve newborn survival through the strengthening of Primary Health Care Units and the Health Extension Programme. The CBNC package includes the delivery of injectable antibiotics at the community level to improve case-management of newborn sepsis.

IDEAS is collaborating with the Ethiopian Federal Ministry of Health and JaRco Consulting to evaluate the CBNC programme through a series of quantitative surveys and qualitative assessments over five years. A final evaluation report will be published in 2019.

Report
Community Based Newborn Care in Ethiopia: Quality of CBNC programme assessment Midline Evaluation Report March 2017

The results of a quality of care assessment of the Ethiopian Community Based Newborn Care (CBNC) programme, conducted in late 2015.

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Celebrating 8 years of IDEAS

Just a few weeks before this exciting milestone the IDEAS team from London, Ethiopia and Nigeria came together for a team retreat to hear from...

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IDEAS at #HSR2018

New evidence presented as posters (above) included: Sustainability for a Village Health Worker scheme in Nigeria Availability of routine facility...

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Breastfeeding in low-resource settings: Not a “small matter”

Health benefits include lower morbidity and mortality rates, as well as better neuro-cognitive functions. For mothers who breastfeed reduced risk...

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IDEAS Summer Seminar Series

More than seven years later, the team is building on the wealth of data, results, partnerships and learning created in the current second phase of...

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The effect of implementation strength of basic emergency obstetric and newborn care (BEmONC) on facility deliveries and the met need for BEmONC at the primary health care level in Ethiopia

Tailored support, including BEmONC training to providers, mentoring and monitoring through supportive supervision, provision of equipment...

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Strengthening the measurement of key health indicators in Ethiopia

Like many other countries, Ethiopia has gaps in their Health Management Information System (HMIS), as well as insufficient mechanisms for data...

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Past event
Seminar: The use of social network analysis to study health care provider advice and performance

This review of databases and articles by IDEAS team members, spanning over 26 years and sought to analyse whether and how social network methods...

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Welcome to the new IDEAS website

The IDEAS project aims to improve the health and survival of mothers and babies through generating evidence to inform policy and practice in...

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Celebrating a strong partner – JaRco’s 10th Anniversary

In the past 10 years, JaRco’s achievements include conducting high-quality project evaluations in: maternal and newborn health, immunizations,...

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