To help increase the number of women who choose institutional births over home births in Nicaragua, CRS and its partners introduced birth plans at the community level, promoted maternity waiting homes and humanized the care given to pregnant women during deliveries.
Malnutrition is not always due to food unavailability but is often the result of misutilization as people may not be sufficiently educated about how to maximize their nutritional status. Ibyiringiro is a five-year project that is focused on food and nutrition intervention for PLWHA and OVC in Rwanda.
The Kasai Child Survival Project is using an innovative approach to bring the most essential curative services closer to the most remote communities in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Participatory Learning and Action Planning
A participatory methodology to help community groups learn more about malaria, its prevention, and treatment and to make a community plan to control the disease.
The Intibucá Case Study
Describes the development of a population-based health information system to collect data on maternal and neonatal health in isolated rural communities.
