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The project was also expanded to 6 additional LGAs and 12 additional health facilities in the state of Katsina, and carried on its ACCESS activities in Kano and Zamfara.
The team conducted interviews with key informants from USAID/Nigeria, USAID/W, USAID implementing partners, the Federal Ministry of Health (FMOH), SMOHs and LGA officials from Kano, Zamfara and Katsina states, facility staff and community groups and workers.
The Northwest region of Nigeria, where Zamfara, Kano and Katsina are located have some of the worst FP/RH statistics, generally much poorer than the national average.
More importantly, there was an inverse relationship between compliance with set standards and declining maternal mortality between 2007-2009 at MMSH in Kano State.
The objectives of the Project are to: (i) increase access to piped water networks in selected urban areas; and (ii) improve reliability and financial viability of selected urban water utilities, in Kaduna, Kano, and Ogun States.
Although field visit time was reduced and Kano state could not be visited at all, the Team felt that the sample selection was adequate to allow generalization to the greater facility population.
The ACCESS/MCHIP Project promoted use of FP and EmONC services in selected LGAs in Zamfara, Kano and Katsina states from January 2006 to February 2012 through the Household to Hospital Continuum of Care (HHCC) approach that created awareness and increased demand at the community level, linked communities to facilities where providers had received skills training and improved management was being practiced.
The goal of the ACCESS/MCHIP Project was to contribute to the reduction of maternal and neonatal mortality by achieving increased utilization of quality EmONC services in Kano and Zamfara.
While it is unlikely that confidence and validity were adversely affected by not visiting the third state, the overall evaluation would certainly have been stronger and more complete had the team been able to include Kano in the itinerary as originally planned.
The ACCESS Project commenced implementation in 2006 in four LGAs: ▇▇▇▇▇ Namoda and Gusau in Zamfara and Gezawa and Dawakin Tofa in Kano.