Save the Children US (SC/US) is leading a group of partner organizations in the conduct of the ACCESS project in Nepal to strengthen maternal and neonatal health services. The interventions that are conducted as part of ACCESS are complementary to the efforts of the Nepal Family Health Program (NFHP), a USAID/Nepal-financed on-going program that seeks to build capacity and service delivery efforts in the government health services to improve maternal and neonatal care.
One of the key interventions to be conducted as part of ACCESS in Nepal is to support the National Neonatal Technical Advisory Committee (NNTAC) in the development of implementation guidelines for managing low birth weight (LBW) infants through community-level interventions. ACCESS is supporting the conduct of a district-wide feasibility trial of an intervention to identify LBW neonates and provide them with appropriate support and care at the home, community, and health facility-level. This strategy contributes to USAID/Nepal’s overall Strategic Objective #2 [Reduced fertility and protected health of Nepalese families] and Intermediate Result 2.2 [Increased use of selected maternal and child health services]. This document describes the monitoring and evaluation (M&E) plan for the ACCESS LBW Project (“Project”) in Kanchanpur district in Nepal.