Since 2014, USAID’s flagship multi-sectoral nutrition project, SPRING, has worked in 15 districts in the Upper East and Northern Regions of Ghana, which are part of the Feed the Future zone of influence (figure 1).
In Ghana, SPRING implemented a community quality improvement, or C-QI, program. By partnering with local non-governmental organizations to supervise C-QI teams, we focused on getting community members to demand better health services in their communities.
This curriculum is meant for Quality Improvement (QI) trainings where participants are the coaches for the teams or are the QI team members at health facilities. This QI training is designed to be implemented at the health facility, and relates to corresponding PowerPoint Slides.
SPRING officially launched activities in Haiti in April 2012, collaborating with the Ministère de la Santé Publique et de la Population (MSPP). Children under five years of age, pregnant and lactating women, and people living with HIV/ AIDS were the direct beneficiaries of our three-year program.
This report was written for USAID/Haiti and various implementing partners to describe the monitoring and quality improvement (QI) activities that have been conducted by SPRING over the last several years. It is not a report of all SPRING/Haiti activities.
Authors: Alexis D’Agostino1, Kristen Kappos1, Amanda Pomeroy1, Fred Werikhe2, Anthony Begumisa3, Margaret Kyenkya2
Quality improvement (QI) is an essential element to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of nutrition assessment, counseling, and support (NACS) services.
Global Forum on Food Security and Nutrition (February 2014)
Feed the Future (2014)