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Building the Capacity of Skilled Birth Attendants
Training in Cameroon
With finding from USAID, ACCESS has been working in West Africa with AWARE-RH, Mwangaza Action,
United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and partner governments. ACCESS/Cameroon works to build the capacity of
skilled birth attendants in the areas of prevention of postpartum hemorrhage, use of the partograph (a tool for
tracking progress of labor and care of the newborn), and developing regional and national training capacity in
maternal and neonatal health care.
In Cameroon’s Ngaoundéré and Tibati districts, ACCESS has taken the lead in building clinical
training capacity in essential health services for mothers and newborns. To help ensure that trained providers
apply their new skills on the job, ACCESS is supporting Cameroonian trainers to perform post-training follow-up
visits. ACCESS is also implementing a quality improvement methodology to motivate clinical sites to regularly
assess, improve and monitor their quality of services against evidence-based standards.
In the Ngaoundéré district, ACCESS is spearheading social mobilization efforts around improved
maternal and neonatal health. Collaborating with Mwangaza Action, ACCESS has assisted community leaders in
developing a pool of trainers to carry out community-level social mobilization workshops. The workshops
utilize an ACCESS-developed “auto-diagnostic” tool, which is designed to help communities prepare an action
plan for social mobilization that fits their individual needs and is linked to the health facility that serves
that community. ACCESS will then help the communities implement those plans.
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