Assessment of the Implementation of Maternal, Newborn, Child Health and Nutrition Health Systems Strengthening for Indigenous Cultural Communities in Selected UNICEF Areas

Assessment of the Implementation of Maternal, Newborn, Child Health and Nutrition Health Systems Strengthening for Indigenous Cultural Communities in Selected UNICEF Areas

Project Director:  Mary Janet M. Arnado
Funding Agency:  United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF)

This assessment aims to determine the i) relevance, ii) effectiveness. iii) efficiency, and iv) sustainability of the UNICEF Programme on the Implementation of Maternal Newborn Child Health and Nutrition Health Systems Strengthening for Indigenous Cultural Communities in Selected UNICEF Areas. The main objectives of the assessment are to provide UNICEF, its partner government agencies, and, when appropriate, the wider public with an overall independent assessment of the performance of the project, paying particular attention to: 1) relevance of the project in addressing the health needs of focus IP communities, including alignment to government priorities, plans and policies; 2) effectiveness in terms of the extent to which the project achieved its objectives and desired results; 3) efficiency in implementing partners’ planning and implementation methodology and timelines, management and coordination systems, financial and administrative procedures, and quality of internal and external monitoring and evaluation systems; 4) assessment of the prospect of sustainability of the intervention’s benefits, extent to which the project was able to integrate sustainability mechanisms in its implementation approaches, and extent by which the local government unit can continue the project on its own and sustain the initial gains achieved by the project; and 5) key lessons and concrete recommendations in order to improve current and future actions in relation to strengthening the health sector SDN for IP communities toward Universal Health Care. The assessment will be jointly managed by UNICEF-Health and Nutrition Section as well as the Bureau of Local Health Systems Development and Family Health Office of the Department of Health.

Key words: Indigenous cultural communities, maternal newborn child health, nutrition health systems, UNICEF programmes, government policies