BEST or Best Practices at Scale in the Home, Community and Facilities: An Action Plan for Maternal, Neonatal, Child Health, Nutrition and Family Planning
(October 2011 to September 2016)
 
As part of the Global Health Initiative, USAID/Washington identified best practices that can lower maternal mortality rates, improve child health, and increase access to voluntary family planning. Worldwide, 28 missions in high-burden maternal and neonatal mortality countries were asked to develop five year action plans to implement these practices at scale while improving the capacity of health systems to sustain the interventions.
 
USAID/Philippines has recently completed its draft BEST Action Plan. It aims to improve the health of Filipino families by helping to expand access to integrated family planning and maternal, neonatal and child health and nutrition (FP/MNCHN) services at the community and facility level. It also aims to strengthen the capacity of the local government units (LGUs) and enhance its collaboration with the private sector to implement FP/MNCHN programs.
 
The BEST Action Plan is posted here in our website this whole month of May 2011 for comments. We invite individuals and government and non-government institutions to help us improve this draft document. Please send in your comments to the USAID/Philippines Office of Health thru mdagohoy@usaid.gov not later than June 1, 2011. Thank you.


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