Technical and Administrative Support. Technical support included visits from CARE USA headquarters by the former Deputy Director of Child Health, Xxxxxxx XxXxxxx, and more recently from the new Technical Specialist in Child Health, Xxxxx XxXxxx. Several visits were made during the LOP to support planning and evaluation activities. The Project received technical assistance from Xxxxx Xxxxxx, formerly of CARE Niger, to develop a strategy for savings and loan groups. CARE and MOH staff has made visits to other countries to visit successful projects and share experiences including Kenya, Honduras, Peru and Bolivia. Through the CARE headquarters’ partnership with the Centers for Disease Control, CARE sponsored training in Total Quality Management, which was then replicated with Extensionists and MOH personnel. Xxxxx Xxxxxxxxxx visited the Project in September 2000 for 2 weeks to assist with follow- on CS Project planning and worked with the CS team in writing a proposal draft. Her visit included strategy sessions, visits to MOH officials and field sites, and support regarding information system management. The proposal is in the process of being approved by USAID for a five-year follow-on project.
Technical and Administrative Support. During the life of the project, some key technical and administrative support was planned and provided to the project in timely fashion. This includes: Detailed Implementation Planning Xxxxxx de Graft-Xxxxxxx and Xxxx Xxxxxxxx March 2001 Production/promotion of clean Birth Kits Xxxxxx de Graft-Xxxxxxx Oct. – Nov. 2001 Marketing of Birth Kits Xxxxxxx Xxxxx, SC December 2001 Lot Quality Assurance Sampling Xxxxxx de Graft-Xxxxxxx Xxxxx 2002 Midterm Evaluation Xxxx Xxxxxxxx, SC Xxx Xxxxx xx Xxxxxx Xxxxxxxxxxx August 2002 Final Evaluation Xxxxxx X. Xxxxxxx September 2003
Technical and Administrative Support. The LBDR will provide technical and administrative support, via email, to the Registrar during the Term.
Technical and Administrative Support. The CSP has received TA from IEF, PROCOSI, and from other contracted specialists.
a. The IEF backstopper, Xxxx X’Xxxxxxx was hired one year after the project began. A consultant was hired (a former IEF employee) to help with writing the proposal and the DIP. No one providing backstopping from 10/99 to 10/00. Xx. X’Xxxxxxx has visited the project three times. In 10/00 to help re-write the DIP, in 3/01 to 5/01 for 2 ½ months to do the Nutrition Survey, and in 10/01 for the MTE. Xx. X’Xxxxxxx is also responsible for backstopping another MCH health project in Malawi. She is budgeted for 35% of her time to be dedicated to the CEPAC Bolivia project but actually spends approximately 50% of her time on the project. TA from IEF was also provided to CEPAC on budgeting and partnership issues in visits by Xxxx Xxxxxxx and Xx Xxxxxxxxx.
b. TA from PROCOSI has included work with the HIS, complementary feeding, computerized financial system, developing job descriptions and a salary schedule.
c. In June of 2000, Xxx Xxxxxxx, MBA, conducted the cost analysis study, Xxx Xxxxx provided training in the first quality workshop and QAP facilitated the second workshop. A good relationship has been developed with Linkages for TA in breastfeeding and complementary feeding. The staff reported being pleased overall by the TA which was received, but the lack of a backstopper for the first year greatly limited the initiation of the project. Both the quality workshops and the sustainability study were postponed due to the inability of consultants to conduct the workshops according to the work plan. TA will be required during the last half of the project in BCC methodologies to help define future directions for CEPAC The third quality workshop by QAP Sustainability study should be completed as soon as possible Supportive supervision by NUR University in Santa Xxxx Bolivia (scheduled) KPC methodology and Epi-Info Measuring the impact of IEC strategies
Technical and Administrative Support. During the term of this Agreement, Gigabit shall provide technical and administrative support via telephone at 000-000-0000 to Customer 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year.
Technical and Administrative Support. The Plan regional health advisor and the regional program support manager both came to visit the project twice and offered technical support and assistance. The first visits of the two officers were contact visits to Plan Cameroon when they were newly hired at WARO. The CS project being the major grant funded project that Plan Cameroon was implementing, they both paid a working visit to the East program area and visited some of the project activities in the field. The regional health advisor joined the reproductive health advisor from the USNO. They visited trained TBAs in Mpelepanga in Diang. He also paid a working visit to a Baka women’s CBO promoting ITN use as well as participated in outreach activities conducted by the nurse from the Petit Pol Health centre and the AAPPEC health Centre in Mayos village. He visited Grand Mboulaye health centre and had discussions with the health personnel proposing how they could improve on service delivery for children and mothers and the population as a whole. His second visit was during the MTE during which he backstopped the strategy for social promotion of ITNs and also held discussions with Plan Cameroon management on the hosting of the Regional health advisors meeting in Bamenda, Cameroon. The regional program advisor on his first working visit to the East Program Area visited GUH activities including CS field activities. He visited the pygmy housing project in Mayos and Nkolbikon and the Baka women, CBO, ITN and growth monitoring activities. He also visited Moundi health centre and had discussions with the staff on problems they were facing, the project assistance they were receiving, and made proposals on how to ameliorate the working conditions to enable field staff to provide quality health services for children and their mothers. Assistance that the project felt was needed but not available and could be better planned for by USAID or Plan HQ included providing additional funding for staff to attend international meetings and to participate in distance learning activities for staff development and career enhancement. The project coordinator was flooded with email information on a regular basis from many technical advisors within Plan, and so access to information at that level did not seem to be a problem. The technical backstop visited the project bi-annually throughout the life of the project, and provided email support and technical resources continuously and upon special requests.
Technical and Administrative Support. The technical backstop and the technical advisor should both continually assess management issues in the field during routine monitoring visits.
Technical and Administrative Support. Technical assistance to the CS Project was provided locally, in most cases by CSRA staff or through workshops sponsored by PROCOSI and PROSIN. The training in LQAS was provided by an outside consultant contracted by Curamericas. The areas of assistance included: design and implementation of procedures for home deliveries; design of formal agreements with public and private sector agencies; design of a technical training manual; design and implementation of basic registers for improved information management; assistance with training, education, information, and communication in health; and the ethnographic study which was the basis for the intercultural approach. In addition to the above, assistance was provided by Curamericas and outside consultants regarding the use of vital statistics, improvement of the nutrition program, and development of quality checklists. Technical assistance needs for the future include: development of procedures manuals for administrative management; communication for behavior change strategies; improvement of the logistics system; implement a training and supervision system; and implement a program for continuous quality improvement.
Technical and Administrative Support. ❑ Technical assistance needs for the future include: development of procedures manuals for administrative management; communication for behavior change strategies; improvement of the logistics system; and studies to improve quality of service. Xxxx Xxxxxxx, Consultant, Team Leader Xxxxx Xxxxxxx, Curamericas Country Program Coordinator Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx, CSRA Executive Director Xxxxx Xxxxx Xxxxxx, CSRA Project Technical Manager Xxxxxx Xxxxxx, CSRA Project Operations Manager Xxxxx Xxxxxxxx, CSRA Project Director Ancoriames Xxxxxxx Xxxxxxxx, CSRA Project Director Carabuco and Xxxxxx Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx, CSRA Project Director Puerto Xxxxxx ATTACHMENT B ASSESSMENT METHODOLOGY The purpose of the Final Evaluation is provide to all stakeholders with details on the project’s accomplishments, and to listen to feedback beneficiaries and donors, , including women, and children and their families, other community members and opinion leaders, health workers, health system administrators, local partners, other organizations, and representatives of donor agencies. ♦ The comparison of baseline and final data to assess impact through KPC studies. ♦ Review program performance according to each objective. Compare planned activities with actual results, analyzing constraints that limited the achievement of goals and factors that enhanced successes. ♦ Elaboration of lessons learned from the project activities, implementation, or approach. ♦ Identification of promising practices and opportunities for scaling up, replication or use of the approach within a broader context. ♦ Recommendations, including: management, HIS, training, M and E, coordination with the community, MOH, and other relevant components. ♦ Feedback and analysis on project sustainability, including relationships between project stakeholders such as the MOH, community volunteers and others. The team is to be composed of: Team Leader (consultant) CS Project Coordinators Other team members (6-15 people) selected from: ♦ Project staff ♦ MOH representatives ♦ Community representatives ♦ AID Mission representatives The team leader is responsible for coordinating all evaluation activities, supervision of the team, meeting all specified objectives, collaborating with curamericas, and submitting a draft and a final report according to the defined timeline. Xxxxx Xxxxx Xxxxxx, Xxxxxx Xxxxxx and other assigned curamericas staff will function as the coordinators of the teams for field data collection, including overall coordination,...
Technical and Administrative Support. Strengths
