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Safe Delivery Incentives Programme Update

On 29th/ 30th May a national workshop will be held in Pokhara to share experiences and examples of successes and lessons learned in designing and implementing safe delivery incentives, and to recommend further improvements to procedures for managing the programme and distributing the incentives. Inputs will be provided from:
 
·            Evaluations carried out by the UK Institute of Child Health and the Nepali NGO, CREHPA
·            Feedback from the Government of Nepal, including experiences from district staff
·            Experiences from Bangladesh, which is successfully implementing a scheme for providing incentives to mothers who deliver in a health facility.
 
Since one of the key issues is to ensure women know about the incentives, SSMP, JHU/CCP and the National Health Education Information Communication Centre are currently working on a communication strategy that includes materials and methods for informing the public about the scheme. This will include posters, leaflets for antenatal clinics, TV and radio programming, and will particularly focus on reaching poor women and those who live in remote areas.
 

27/05/2008 Ashima Shrestha SSMP