Client: U.S. Agency for International Development
Duration: 2017-2022
Region: Asia and the Pacific
Country: Indonesia
Solutions: Global Health
While Indonesia has made significant progress toward key development goals, including greatly reducing child mortality, maternal and newborn deaths in Indonesia occur at higher rates compared with neighboring countries, particularly among poor and vulnerable populations.
The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) Jalin project partners with the Indonesian Ministry of Health to reduce maternal and newborn deaths. USAID Jalin uses a whole-of-market approach to improve: 1) maternal and newborn health quality of care in public and private, primary and secondary facilities, and 2) the efficiency and effectiveness of the emergency referral system at community and facility levels. The project works to: sustain improvements in clinical hospital teams’ treatment of obstetric and newborn complications; focus stakeholder strategies on the main causes of maternal and newborn death; sustain improvements to quality of care provided by private midwives; and scale improved referral networks and integrated ICT platforms to support those referrals.
The project supports activities in 120 of the Government of Indonesia’s priority districts for maternal and newborn health nationally and has a presence in 65 of these districts, across six provinces: Banten, Central Java, East Java, North Sumatra, South Sulawesi, and West Java.
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