| Reporting Organization: | Oxfam-Quebec |
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| Total Budget ($CAD): | $ 13,600,000 |
| Timeframe: | April 16, 2016 - March 31, 2020 |
| Status: | Implementation |
| Contact Information: |
MBOLA RAZAFIMAHEFA [email protected] |
| Congo (DRC) - $ 13,328,000.00 (98.00%) | |
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| Canada - $ 272,000.00 (2.00%) | |
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| Health Promotion & Education (20 %) | |
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| Health Systems, Training & Infrastructure (20 %) | |
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| Primary Health Care (20 %) | |
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| Reproductive Health & Rights incl. Maternal Health (20 %) | |
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| Economic Development & Empowerment (20 %) | |
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The Healthy Mothers and Children in the Democratic Republic of Congo initiative aims to reduce maternal and child mortality by improving access to, and delivery of, adapted health services for mothers and children under age five and increasing the skills of health workers. Activities include rehabilitating 20 maternity wards; caring for 3,500 HIV-positive mothers and newborns; and implementing education campaigns on family planning, sexually transmitted diseases and unplanned pregnancy. The initiative will contribute to strengthening health systems and improving health and nutrition.
| Gender and age: | Adult women Adult men Adolescent females Adolescent males Under-5 children Newborns |
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| Descriptors: | Rural |
| Total Direct Population: | 359,747 |
| Total Indirect Population: | 1,791,891 |
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Return to topImproved delivery of environmentally responsible services and health care geared to the needs of mothers and of children under the age of five in the targeted areas; Improved delivery of environmentally responsible services and health care geared to the needs of mothers and of children under the age of five in the targeted areas;
Increased use of the health services by the local populations in the targeted areas, especially women, young people and children under the age of five.
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