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Project Description

Baseline Study on Maternal, Newborn and Child Health for the Mother Care and Child Survival Project

 

Client

Agha Khan Foundation (Pakistan)

 

Start Date

2013-02-07

 

End Date

2013-04-15

 

Value

USD 38.6

 

Pakistan

Country

Save the Children International (SCI) planned to conduct an Initial Assessment on Improving basic health needs of vulnerable people in six provinces of Afghanistan, focusing on women and girls. The initial assessment was planned to conduct in six provinces of Afghanistan – Faryyab, Jawzjan, Sare Pul, Dai Kundi, Bamyan and Kandhar.  The specific objectives of assessment were as follows-

To gather data to permit project staff and partners to gain a clear understanding of the current situation with regards to basic health needs, specifically of women and children.  The baseline study will aslo collect, organize and analyze information on project components to contribute to the design and implementation of a comprehensive monitoring and evaluation system.

Name of Senior Staff

  • Syed Sardar Ali (Assignment Manager)
  • Dr. Mozzam Khalil (Report Writer)
  • Zahid Jamal Tareen (Statistician)
  • Ghulam Dastgeer (Field Manager)
  • Dr. Aurang Zeib (Team Leader)
  • Abida Aziz (Assignment Coordinator)

 

Detailed Description of the Actual Services

The services provided by the firms included research tools development, refinement and translation in local languages (Dari and Pashto), training of field enumerators in each province separately, data collection 84 villages (14 villages in each province, data coding and entry, data analysis and baseline report development.  Data entry was done by professional data entry operators in Census Survey Program (CSPro).  After data entry frequency tables were generated for cleaning.  Data analysis was done using statistical package (SPSS).  Whole exercise was done in close coordination of client.

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