External Review of the Maternal and Neonatal Health Program

摘要

The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) designed the Maternal and Neonatal Health Program (MNH) to be its innovative flagship program to improve maternal and neonatal health. The program vision was to move beyond small-scale, pilot, or demonstration activities in maternal and neonatal health to support broad, integrated MNH programs in country programs worldwide. USAID awarded the ;59.6-million Cooperative Agreement (contract number HRN-A-00-98-000-43-00) for the MNH Program to JHPIEGO Corporation in 1998. JHPIEGO made subawards (16 percent of the program budget) to three partner organizations: the Center for Development and Population Activities; the Johns Hopkins University Center for Communications Programs; and the Program for Appropriate Technology in Health. In September 2002, USAID extended the cooperative agreement (CA) by one year, to September 30, 2004, and increased the agreement ceiling to ;79.6 million. The MNH Program external review took place from late January through March 2003, during the program's fourth operational year. The purpose of the review was to identify important lessons from the MNH experience that would assist the USAID Strategic Objective 2 (SO2) team in redesign of the follow-on program and would help the MNH team complete the program successfully