IDEAS project - Scaling-up innovations to improve maternal and newborn health - Ethiopia case study resources

Spicer, N, Fanta, F, Belete, F and Wickremasinghe, D. 2014. IDEAS project - Scaling-up innovations to improve maternal and newborn health - Ethiopia case study resources. [Online]. London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom. Available from: https://doi.org/10.17037/DATA.120.

Spicer, N, Fanta, F, Belete, F and Wickremasinghe, D. IDEAS project - Scaling-up innovations to improve maternal and newborn health - Ethiopia case study resources [Internet]. London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine; 2014. Available from: https://doi.org/10.17037/DATA.120.

Spicer, N, Fanta, F, Belete, F and Wickremasinghe, D (2014). IDEAS project - Scaling-up innovations to improve maternal and newborn health - Ethiopia case study resources. [Data Collection]. London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom. https://doi.org/10.17037/DATA.120.

Description

The IDEAS project sought to improve the health and survival of mothers and babies through generating evidence to inform policy and practice in Ethiopia, northeast Nigeria and Uttar Pradesh, India. This data collection contains interview field notes and supporting information produced as part of a case study to determine what had catalysed, helped and hindered the scale-up of antibiotic administration by health extension workers treating newborn sepsis in Ethiopia. This innovation, which had originated from the Community Based Interventions for Newborns in Ethiopia (COMBINE) project and been evaluated through a randomised control trial, had at the time of this study, been scaled-up to 92 woredas as one of nine components of the first phase of the Ethiopian Government’s Community Based Newborn Care package (CBNC).

Methods

Description of data capture

Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 22 purposively selected key informants who had experience or an understanding of the process by which the government scaled up treatment of neonatal sepsis in the community based on COMBINE, to being a component of the CBNC package, what had helped and hindered the process and any key actions that were needed to catalyse scale-up.

Data capture method

Interview: Face-to-face, Interview: Telephone-delivery

Data Collection Period

From	To
March 2014	August 2014

Date (Date submitted to LSHTM repository)

2014

Geographical area covered (offline during plugin upgrade)

North Latitude	East Longitude	South Latitude	West Longitude
15.1153	47.7026	3.38255	32.8931

Language(s) of written materials

English

People & Groups

Data Creators	Spicer, N, Fanta, F, Belete, F and Wickremasinghe, D
Associated roles	Spicer, N (Project Leader), Schellenberg, J (Principal Investigator), Berhanu, D (Regional Co-ordinator) and Wickremasinghe, D (Researcher)
LSHTM Faculty/Department	Faculty of Infectious and Tropical Diseases > Dept of Disease Control
Research Centre	Centre for Maternal, Reproductive and Child Health (MARCH) IDEAS
Participating Institutions	London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, JaRco Consulting, Addis Ababa

Projects

Funders

Project	Funder	Grant Number	Funder URI
IDEAS - Informed Decisions for Actions in Maternal and Newborn Health	Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation	Gates Global Health Grant Number: OPP1017031	UNSPECIFIED