Using key informant monitoring in safe motherhood programming in Nepal

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ID5145072
AuthorsNeil Price, Deepa Pokharel, Deepa Risal Pokharel
Year2005
Volume15
Issue2
Pages151-164
Publication date2005-04-01
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueDevelopment in Practice (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0961-4524 • E-ISSN: 1364-9213
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/09614520500041138
OpenAlexW2092279608
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited4

This article discusses the methodology and application of the Key Informant Monitoring (KIM) tool as used by the Nepal Safer Motherhood Project (NSMP). NSMP aims to achieve a sus-tained increase in the uptake of midwifery and essential obstetric care services by addressing, among other things, constraints on access to such services. Data collected by community-based Key Informant Researchers (KIRs) are synthesised and used by NSMP and key project partners for monitoring and planning purposes. NSMP has used KIM findings to modify its main inter-ventions at the local level. International and Nepali NGOs have adopted KIM in their safe motherhood and other development programmes. Village Development Committees, with support from NGOs and NSMP, have responded to issues raised by KIM by running maternal health awareness-raising campaigns, working with traditional healers, improving the quality of care, and facilitating local emergency transport and funding schemes. KIRs have proved effective as sources of information and as change agents, spreading safe motherhood messages to promote behaviour change

Business · Computer security · Economic growth · Economics · Monitoring and evaluation · Nepali · Political science · Psychological intervention · Public relations · SAFER · Community Health and Development · Computer Science · Global Maternal and Child Health · Medicine · Nursing · Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare

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