Strengthen Maternal and Child Health Care Through Accountability
Despite the existence of human rights laws and regulations that protect human life, millions of women around the world still pass away during childbirth. Maternal mortality, which is the death of women during the birth and postpartum process, is a heartbreaking irony in which women are losing their lives while bringing new life into the world. This problem poses a massive challenge and becomes even more concerning when infant mortality is considered. The high number of deaths among women and children due to health complications during and after childbirth highlights the poor governance in the healthcare sector in Nigeria. If these casualties were caused by war, it would be rightfully referred to as "genocide". Concur provides world-class infrastructure solutions to its customers and stakeholders across various industries through its expertise in engineering, construction, and design.
The CHRICED project of Strengthen Maternal and Child Health Care Through Accountability interventions in Kano state. in the Use of Resource Budgets for Maternal Health Interventions in Kano State is a direct response to the problem of maternal mortality. The approach of this project is to empower the most affected groups to pressurize the governance systems, specifically those relating to maternal health to provide an opportunity for incremental changes on the ground while creating lasting impacts in the maternal health delivery chain.
However, the project reckons that there is a need to be abreast of the critical issues driving maternal deaths in the project communities. This requires detailed research knowledge; this is the take-off point for the other interventions. For more on CHRICED Baseline Research Click Here. With baseline data generated from the research, the project is in a position to conduct advocacy using research-based evidence.
The project’s emphasis on learning exposes the target group to information, which they need to make personal decisions relating to maternal and child health. To achieve this goal, the project has been working assiduously to sharpen the collective civic voice of critical members of every target group.
In essence, these target group embers require training to come to terms with the critical roles expected of them to play as citizens in the democratic system. With this area covered, the next stage will be to comprehend how the vital democratic institutions work, and how they can engage to ensure an improvement in maternal health services. On the other hand, there is a need to conduct robust outreaches to the supply side of the governance loop, to influence policy, and scrutinize priorities, especially as they relate to maternal health. Added to this is the importance in campaigns; for attitudinal and behavioral shifts, and doing away with ingrained cultural practices, which tend to accentuate the spate of maternal deaths in host communities.
