Malawi KMC Assessment Report,2007

The purpose of this evaluation was to undertake a retrospective assessment of the status and quality of KMC implementation in Malawian hospitals that received support for the implementation of KMC, with a view to making recommendations based on lessons learned for sustainable scaling up to more sites including health centres. In addition, the available education and training materials on KMC were reviewed in order to develop a KMC action kit including less intensive, modular training that could be used in Malawi and other African countries wishing to take KMC to scale.

This report contains three main sections:

• Findings from the visits to the hospitals and opportunities for immediate action
• A review of existing materials used in KMC
• Ideas for the way forward in scaling-up KMC