Assessment of outpatient therapeutic programme for severe acute malnutrition in three regions of Ethiopia

East African Medical Journal
T Belachew, H Nekatibeb

Abstract

To document the experiences and lessons for rolling out of the OTP service at the wider scale with the aim of assessing the strengths and weaknesses of the project and suggest recommendations for future programming. Qualitative methods of data collection including focus group discussion, observation and in-depth interview of key informants were employed to get relevant data. Review of health facility, reports and programme documents were done to capture further- information. Out Patient Programme (OTP) pilot programme implemented by CONCERN/ VALID in three administrative regions of Ethiopia namely: South Nations and Nationalities Peoples Regions (SPNNR), Addis Ababa and Oromia regions. A total of thirteen health centres which had started OTP service from the three regions were included in the study. Thirty six key informants and 30 focus group discussants were involved in the study conducted from 16th to 25th November 2006. Out Patient Programme (OTP) has enhanced community's understanding of malnutrition as a health problem through an excellent entry point it created for behaviour change communication (BCC) on optimal infant and young child feeding (IYCF). It has also enhanced utilisation of the existing equipments of the resp...Continue Reading

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