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A Monitoring And Evaluation Plan For The Core Competencies Of Skilled Birth Attendants In Nepal, Roberta Goldstein Feb 2012

A Monitoring And Evaluation Plan For The Core Competencies Of Skilled Birth Attendants In Nepal, Roberta Goldstein

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The purpose of this capstone is to present a Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) plan of the core competencies, for Skilled Birth Attendants (SBA) of Nepal. The World Health Organization has laid out 10 specific skills that assess a SBAs competency. Nepal presently lacks any formal process for monitoring quality assurance of its SBAs and therefore has no measurement of their effectiveness. This Capstone proposes a simple M&E plan to begin the process of quality measurement, using a recent follow-up study done by the Nepali government, other articles and the experiences of the author. The tools included in this Capstone are …