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Welcome to the Maternal Survival Toolkit*:
 
Behavior Change Interventions to Improve Maternal Survival 
 
The CHANGE Project identified, developed and applied innovative tools and approaches to design behavior change interventions for maternal survival. With support from USAID’s Global Bureau (SO2) and the Africa Bureau, CHANGE worked with partners in Kenya, Guinea and Bangladesh to adapt and field test a set of tools to support the design of effective and locally appropriate behavior change interventions.
 
Framework for Maternal Survival
 
The CHANGE Project Maternal Survival framework organizes behavior change interventions in three areas:
  1. Seeking Skilled Care (Danger Signs Plus) at the individual household level
  2. Birth Preparedness (Birth Preparedness Plus) in communities
  3. Providing Skilled Care (Skilled Provider Plus) in facilities

The framework builds on a foundation of interventions at the household, community and health facility levels that are part of a comprehensive behavior change program. The framework responds to lessons learned and global program experience from the first decade of the Safe Motherhood Initiative.
 
Tools
 
A set of tools corresponds to each area of the CHANGE framework: These tools can help programs rapidly move from formative research to the design and implementation of effective interventions and facilitate scale-up of maternal survival programs. Programs can adapt these tools as needed.
 
Development of the Toolkit
 
As part of the development of the toolkit, several documents were produced and are key to understanding and implementing behavior change interventions to improve maternal survival:
 
*Please note that the toolkit is only available electronically. No Hard copies are available.
     
CHANGE Themes

Adolescent Reproductive Health
Applying an assets-based approach to identify protective factors for at-risk adolescents

Child Health
Formative research on reducing exposure to indoor pollution; development of tools for families to improve child health; application of an integrated approach to improving child health and nutrition

Communications Capacity Building
Defining a competencies based approach to strengthen communications capacity; implementing a competencies approach in Peru

HIV/AIDS
Behavior change to reduce and prevent HIV/AIDS; Raising awareness and promoting practical actions to challenge HIV/AIDS stigma; and establishment of peer and counseling networks

Immunization
Research on barriers to immunization; improving implementation; and evaluation of community surveillance

Infectious Disease
Strategies to contain drug resistance, dengue prevention and control; integrated disease surveillance research

Maternal Health
Using a behavior change approach to improve access to skilled care; developing a framework and tools to increase the use of skilled care during delivery and post-partum

Polio
Development of a community surveillance kit; lessons from polio communications programs; and guides and checklists for routine immunization and disease surveillance
   
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