USAID/DFID NGO HEALTH SERVICE DELIVERY PROJECT MONTHLY STATISTICAL REPORT

The project is funded by USAID and DFID, with a total project amount of USD 83 million. The project's main purpose is to increase access to quality health services, particularly for the poor and underserved populations. In June 2014, the project implemented several key activities to achieve its objectives. A three-day Training of Trainers (ToT) on Social Analysis and Action for adding gender awareness on health service provision was conducted for SH clinic staff. The training aimed to enhance staff awareness on gender as a concept of power and its impact on service delivery. The ToT was facilitated by trainers from CARE USA and CARE India. A formal launching event for the USAID-DFID NHSDP was held on June 10, 2014, to highlight the commitment and collaboration of USAID and DFID to make quality healthcare more widely available for poor and underserved families through the SH clinic network. Over 200 participants representing donor agencies, GoB officials, USAID partner organizations, print and electronic media, and the SH network NGOs attended the event. A ToT on the use of Misoprostol to prevent Post Partum Hemorrhage for home delivery was conducted on June 4, 2014. The Directorate General of Family Planning (DGFP) agreed to scale up the program through the SH network platform. Over 100 paramedics received orientation on Misoprostol use. Safe Delivery Clinical Trainings were imparted to paramedics of clinics providing safe deliveries at the facility and home level. The trainings aimed to enhance NGO's additional maternal health goals on safe birth services. As of June 2014, a total of ten batches of training on 'Gender Equitable approach to service delivery and identification, treatment, and counseling survivors of Gender Based Violence (GBV)' were conducted in 165 clinics across nine SH network NGOs from 31 districts. M&E training data analysis and data use was conducted in two batches for all SH network NGO 50 staff, including MIS, FAM, and some Project Directors. The training dates were June 17-19, 2014, and June 22-24, 2014. The training content included the concept of data, information, data type, level of measurement, indicator, data management, mode of data analysis, rates, and ratios. The project also collaborated with the Bangladesh University of Health Sciences' Gestational Mellitus Diabetes (GDM) Project to train 16 SH clinic staff from CWFD, PSTC, BAMANEH, and Swanirvar on the management and prevention of GDM in Bangladesh. Diabetes and hypertension services are the new indicators to be incorporated into the M&E plan. An MOU was signed with Plan International Bangladesh's Protecting Human Rights (PHR) program to address gender inequity in health service delivery and gender-based violence (GBV) in 26 NGO clinics. PHR will help support the establishment of routine screening for GBV at the SH clinics and referral of survivors from PHR project areas to six SH clinics in five upazilas. The project's monthly statistical report for June 2014 contains indicators from Intermediate Result one (IR-1) and the entire data for the month of June 2014 collected from all 26 NGOs. The report highlights key achievements, including an increase in Couple Years Protection (CYP) to 139,426 in June 2014 from 131,988 in May 2014. The report also shows an increase in total service contacts to 3,313,646 in June 2014 from 3,265,046 in May 2014. The report also presents data on service contacts to the poor, which remained the same at 39.3% in June 2014. The report highlights the importance of increasing access to quality health services, particularly for the poor and underserved populations.