From 2016-2020, we pledge to commit to increasing the health knowledge and expertise of community health workers and health care staff, and improve health literacy and health-seeking behavior of women of reproductive age in Mayuge Distrcit of Uganda through our Maama Project. The Mama & Family Project, previously known as Maama Project, is a community-based project operating in six villages in Mayuge district, Uganda. For our commitment, we are aiming to improve knowledge on maternal and newborn health, improve capacity building and provide some essential services to pregnant women and mothers.
We also pledge to provide a clean birth kit to every woman who attends four antenatal visits, and strengthen the health care system by investing in supplies, equipment and training. Additionally, we wish to contribute to research on low-cost interventions for maternal and newborn health. By year three, we wish to detect the following outcomes: increased antenatal attendance (90% of pregnancies), an increase in health facility births (85% of births), increase in the use of safe newborn care practices (90% of newborns) and use of contraception (70% of women in the reproductive age range). The long term outcomes we wish to see at year five are utilisation of community health worker services and antenatal care for all pregnancies and no infection-related newborn deaths.
