Enhancing Skilled Delivery in Ethiopia Project Accelerating Progress towards MDG 5 Through Enhancing the National Capacity for Quality Maternal and New-born Care Provision Enhancing Skilled Delivery in Ethiopia Project Launch April 16,2014 Addis Ababa Ethiopia

1. MOH-EU-UNICEF
Enhancing Skilled Delivery in Ethiopia Project
Accelerating Progress towards MDG 5
Through Enhancing the National Capacity for
Quality Maternal and New-born Care Provision
April 16,2014

2.  Overall objectives
 Specific objectives
 Expected results
 Beneficiaries of the project
 Implementation period
 Budget

3.  To improve maternal and
newborn health in Ethiopia
through supporting the health
system towards achieving
HSDP national targets and
Goals of MDG 4 and 5

4. To increase access to and
utilization of quality
maternal and newborn
health services by mothers
and newborns

5.  Result 1: HSDP financing gaps reduced &
implementation supported through
contribution to MDG PF: Un-earmarked Support
to MDG PF
 Result 2: Targeted health facilities are
equipped and ready to provide MNH services:
procurement of basic and comprehensive
Emergency Obstetric and Newborn Care
(EmONC) equipment,
 Result 3: Demand for and use of maternal
health services is enhanced: through
strengthening community-based promotion
activities through supporting sharing of best
practices among the HDAs

6. The beneficiaries of the project are:
 Overall health service through the
MDG PF
 An estimated 12,500,000
populations Result 2 and 3)
 Direct beneficiaries 625,000
mothers and neonates annually,
impacting 1,875,000 mothers and
neonates during project period

7.  Project is planned for 36 months
(2014-2016)
 National scale with respect to
national priorities to populations
and services indicated in the HSDP
IV

8.  EU will join MDG PF contributors and the fund will
be disbursed via UNICEF which will channel
funding on an annual incremental basis
 The MDG PF covers activities implemented
nationwide for which disbursement will be made
on the basis of FMoH and DPs agreed annual
activity plan
 The financial and activity reporting of the results
of the funding will be made following the Joint
Financial Arrangement principles of the MDG PF

9.  Result 2 and 3 will be
implemented by UNICEF, some
activities will be outsourced to
CSOs and professional
associations and NGOs

10.  Procurement of EmONC and newborn care
equipment, supplies, commodities
 Training of 250 health professionals in
comprehensive EmONC
 Printing and distribution of EmONC protocols
and job aids to maternity wards
 Procure newborn care equipment
 Conduct training and mentoring of nurses
and midwives in essential newborn

11.  Install & monitor functioning of operation
theatres in 30 hospitals for obstetric surgery
 Training, mentoring and supervision of 1,000
nurses and midwives in EmONC

12.  Document and disseminate HDAs good
practices
 Provide mobile phones to Health Extension
Workers
 Procure and distribute 10,000 multipurpose
radios for health posts

13. Activity Costs (in EUR)
MDG PF contribution 21,210,000
Personnel 763,975
Capacity development 8,030,120
Coordination, Travel, Monitoring and
Oversight
344,231
Supplies and Commodities 980,769
Equipment 7,161,279
Contingency 500,000
Admin cost 1,209,626
Total 40,200,000

14. Year Amount in Euro
2014 (EFY 2006) 5,500,000
2015 (EFY 2007) 7,000,000
2016 ( EFY 2008) 8,500,000
Total 21,000,000