End-line Survey: Maternal Anaemia Reduction (A2Z)

Agency : Academy for Education Development

The project was designed and applied through the government system packages to scale up anaemia prevention in pregnant women in selected three districts of Uttar Pradesh and three districts of Jharkhand. A baseline study was conducted in the year 2007 in Jharkhand and in 2008 in Uttar Pradesh to measure the ANC coverage, provision of services, utilization of services and anaemia prevalence and its related factors. The intervention then was carried out using a system strengthening approach and efforts were made to improve the existing system rather than creating a new one. The objective of the end-line survey was to document the improvement in the coverage and utilization of services and reduction of anaemia prevalence. Further, the study also documented the lessons learnt that could be used for scaling up the intervention to other blocks of the districts and to other districts of the state. The end-line survey provided representative, valid and reliable population-based estimates of intervention coverage, participation and knowledge, attitude and practice related to anaemia and anaemia prevalence in the target populations within the intervention and non-intervention blocks. The results were also compared against baseline measures to assess whether the intervention package achieved the desired changes in key performance and outcome indicators.


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