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

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).

Additional Information

The file of expanded field notes for this study are stored on the LSHTM Secure Server, but cannot be made available due to the sensitive nature of the discussion and difficulty of anonymisation without complete context loss.

Keywords

Scale-up, Postnatal care, Newborn health, Innovation, Community-based care, Ethiopia

Parent Collection(s)

• note_stack IDEAS - Informed Decisions for Actions in Maternal and Newborn Health: Phase 1