Health Child’s Current Action
Research Status
PRESENTED BY
Irongo Daniel
30th October, 2014
About the Project
 Health Child is implementing a program “Enabling Access to Health:
Increasing Community involvement, participation and Responsibility
towards Maternal and Child Health” also branded STAR PARENT.
The program intends to address the following;
 Reduced Maternal and Child mortality
 Increased Skilled Deliveries
 Increased Birth preparedness
 Full and on time ANC attendance
 Increased number of children surviving up to 28 days
 Increased Male involvement
 Increased on-time PNC uptake
 Full and on-schedule immunization
Summary Results from the Pilot
Action Research in 2013
In 2013,Health Child piloted action research for the ICT tools
used in the project. This specifically focused on measuring
awareness for existence of the ICT tools used. The results were
shared with all C4C partners but the summary is below
 Community Radio - 65% of the respondents acknowledged
listening to health programmes
 Inspirational Corners - 32.5% of the respondents knew
about the health inspirational stories on the Inspirational
Corners
 Text Messages – 60% acknowledged receipt of health text
messages from health child.
Cont
Recommendations from the participants were;
 Community suggested programmes on the community radio
to be aired in a local language.
 Community also proposed the appropriate time for airing out
programmes on the community radio.
 They also proposed to increase frequency in airing out health
programmes on the community radio
 They recommended stories on inspirational corners to be also
put in local languages
 They recommended messages to be in a local language
 They also recommended messages for men
Thus far and Conclusion
 Health Child incorporated the results and recommendations
from the Action Research while scaling up usage of the ICT
tools from February 2014.
 Thus far, Health Child in in the planning process of
conducting action research with focus on measuring impact
in terms of knowledge levels.This will first be done for Text
messages.
 From November 2014,Health Child shall conduct a call centre
survey for the Text Messages program. The results are
expected to be out by the last week of November and in
addition to making sense out of the results by Health
Child,they will also be shared with C4C partners