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WORLD VISION UGANDA ttC IMPLEMENTATION UPDATE. Health, nutrition and HIV UNIT, WVU TTC 2 nd Edition TOT, APRIL 2015. Uganda CWB at a glance. On track for MDG 4. Off track for MDG 5. 34.9 MIL TOTAL POPULATION (UN 2010). 112 DISTRICTS.
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WORLD VISION UGANDA ttC IMPLEMENTATION UPDATE Health, nutrition and HIV UNIT, WVUTTC 2nd Edition TOT, APRIL 2015
Uganda CWB at a glance.. On track for MDG 4 Off track for MDG 5 34.9 MIL TOTAL POPULATION (UN 2010) 112 DISTRICTS Disparities associated with rural residence, poverty and low education NMR: 27 per 1000 live births MMR: 438 IMR: 54 per 1000 live births 6.7 CHILDREN PER WOMAN U5MR: 90 per 1000 live births 14% children under 5 underweight 33% children under 5 stunted
Village Health Teams Uganda • Virtual Health Centre 1 • Selected by community; consensus or popular vote • VHT: Household ratio of ̴ 1:30 (av. 5 per village) • Voluntary workers • Mixed portfolio: mobilisation, sensistisation, pregnancy monitoring, referral, drug distribution, health education etc • Basic training: 5 days, no formal certification program • Capacity building, reporting, feedback; quarterly review meetings • Harmonised data tools since 2010
Country adaptation process: • Orientation of WVU technical Team: This focused on the key National office specialists and technical leads. This was done together with other EARO teams • Orientation of MoH Leadership: Resulted into WVU being asked to facilitate the review of the curriculum and adapt it to the Ugandan standards • Curriculum Review: working with the MoH (Health Education and promotion, RMH and Child Health division) a facilitators, Participants, Household register and Job Aid were adapted. Training pack for only 5 days evolved. • Training of trainers: 23 Ministry of Health Staff mostly from the districts were trained and equipped with training skills for ttC • Pilot Project: MoH asked WVU to first pilot this methodology in Kitgum, Busia and Kabale before going full blown, present to the MCH Cluster from time to time for advise. • Roll out: Currently working on making sure that ttC is the minimum model of choice for Health, Nutrition and HIV ADPs in the country
ttC implementation process • The progress is guided by the implementation guideline • This is sent to all ADPs to guide the readiness and roll out
Other adaptations arising from implementation experience • The curriculum has been made into episodes into key local languages to aid Radio Distance Learning • The Job AID, Household register, referral form have been translated into local languages as well
Key Challenges: • Very Low VHT literacy levels: This is currently affecting the quality of reports from them and calling for more intensified efforts in mentoring and coaching. • Uncoordinated motivation mechanism: This has resulted into low morale of the VHTs and contributed into the drop out rates and poor follow up of households. • Dynamics of policy Changes: This is a new development. The MoH is strategically moving to the Community Health Extension Worker, meaning that as a WVU national office, we may need to change ttC implementation to suite the CHEW