Table 2 Community action for maternal health project aims and activities
Aim | Specific Activities |
|---|---|
1. Awareness of entitlements by pregnant women and community | Focus group discussions and participatory methods with women's groups to elicit local understanding and preferences for safe delivery |
Community wide meetings and group-specific meetings. | |
Pictorial banner for group discussions (toran) and individual poster for woman about entitlements (mahiti patrika) | |
2. Community monitoring of receipt and delivery of services | Home visits with individual women at 8Â months pregnancy and postpartum using healthy mother tool (warli madi tool) |
Monitoring of outreach antenatal services at Village Health and Nutrition Day (VHND) (VHND tool) | |
Maternal death tracking to triangulate government tracking | |
3. Dialogue with stakeholders about gaps identified | Development of report cards of Primary Health Centre (PHC) functioning |
Support of community members during the Maternal Death Review process |