Community-based newborn care

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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Published content

News

Putting maternal, newborn and child health on the agenda in Ethiopia

As part of the conference IDEAS team members presented key findings from the five-year evaluation of the Community Based Newborn Care (CBNC)...

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Report

Final evaluation of the Community Based Newborn Care programme in Ethiopia

The overall evaluation plan included baseline, quality of care and follow up surveys, as well as two qualitative studies. It was conducted in...

Ethiopia Community-based newborn care Research findings

Past event

MNCHAN Conference Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

As part of this conference IDEAS will be presenting findings from the five-year evaluation of the Community Based Newborn Care (CBNC) programme....

Ethiopia Community-based newborn care Research findings

Journal article

Stronger diagnostic abilities for common childhood illnesses needed in Ethiopia

This paper published by Theodros Getachew et al in Acta Paediatrica reveals findings from a study which included a survey and observations of the...

Ethiopia Community-based newborn care Understanding quality improvement Evidence for policy and practice Research findings

Journal article

‘People have started to deliver in the facility these days’: a qualitative exploration of factors affecting facility delivery in Ethiopia

The findings in this paper, authored by Zelee Hill and others suggest that barriers, which had prevented women in the past from delivering their...

Ethiopia Community-based newborn care Understanding quality improvement Behaviour change Context Evidence for policy and practice Research findings

Journal article

Redesigning maternal health services – context matters

The plea for the childbirth service redesign is underpinned by the assumption that the centralisation of childbirth services to hospitals will...

General Community-based newborn care Tracking progress Context Evidence for policy and practice Research findings

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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...

General Community-based newborn care Behaviour change Evidence for policy and practice Research findings