IDEAS project - Community based newborn care evaluation, midline qualitative study

The IDEAS project sought to improve the health and survival of mothers and babies through generating evidence to inform policy and practice. One strand of work was an evaluation of Community Based Newborn Care (CBNC), a care package rolled out across the country by the Federal Government of Ethiopia. Under CBNC, frontline health workers provide ‘Four Cs’: contact with newborns; case identification of neonatal sepsis; and care and completion of treatment. This qualitative study sought to describe programmatic activities from the perspective of CBNC or integrated community case management (ICCM) implementers (e.g. woreda health centre staff, health centre staff and NGO staff), and to identify implementations successes and challenges and make recommendations to improve the programme.