Project Three: Integrated Management of Childhood Illness (IMCI)
Project Objectives:
- Ensure that the percentage of children (0-5) years and pregnant women with access to quality IMCI services increase from less than 10% to 90% in each of the three governorates by the end of 2007.
- Ensure proper functioning of the national micro-nutrients monitoring systems for the prevention of iron deficiency anaemia, iodine deficiency disorder, and vitamin A deficiency among women of child bearing-age and among children.
Major Strategies:
- Capacity Analysis of the various partners to identify gaps in service delivery.
- Linkages with the IECD programme and convergence in areas supported by the Community Development Project.
- Advocacy and programme communication with clear linkage and synchronization with the above two projects.
Major Activities:
- Conducting participatory rapid appraisals (PRAs) on IMCI-related knowledge and practices in new communities.
- Training of community volunteers and health workers on IMCI (including the child’s psychosocial development) in 3 governorates;
- Training Ministry of Health physicians and nurses at the national level on IMCI.
- Training Ministry of Health staff on monitoring the flour fortification programmes.
- Training of staff in flour mills and inspectors in the Ministry of Health on quality control testing for flour fortification.
- Facilitation of direct supply support made by other international organisations, for example Micro-nutrients International (MI), or the Center for Disease Control (CDC) - Atlanta.
Major Partners:
- Ministries of Social Development, Health, Education, Awqaf and Religious Affairs
- Higher Council for Youth
- General Union of Voluntary Societies (GUVs)
- Jordan River Foundation (JRF)
- Noor Al-Hussein Foundation (NHF)
- Jordanian Hashemite Fund for Human Development (JOHUD)
- Jordanian Women’s Union
- General Federation of Jordanian Women
- Abu-Thar Al-Ghafari Society
- United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA)
- World Health Organisation (WHO)
- United States Agency for International Development (USAID)
- The World Bank
- Private sector
Indicators for verification of achievement:
- Percentage of children (0-5 years) and pregnant women with access to quality IMCI services.
- Percentage of caregivers who know an agreed number of key IMCI practices.
- Periodic reliable data on the prevalence of goitre among children.
- Percentage of women and children with iron deficiency anaemia.
- Percentage of children with vitamin A deficiency.
- Percentage of women and children with iron deficiency anaemia.
