Context

 

The Misoprostol Initiative’s goal is to improve women’s health by enhancing the capacity of leaders from diverse community-based organizations inTanzania to provide the most up-to-date information about the correct uses of Misoprostol, and support them in developing concrete strategies and proposals to empower women to access Misoprostol in a safe and effective manner

 

Project Title

 

Improvement of women’s health by enhancing and giving the most up-to-date information about the correct and safe use of Misoprostol and access to the misoprostol in kigoma Region

Brief Project Description

According to the research done by Nyakitonto Youth For Development Tanzania, Ifakara Health Institute and Women Promotion Centre; we have come to realize that most of rural women and infants in Kigoma Region are dying much especially during delivery due to excessive bleeding. These deaths are normally caused by poor health services in rural areas and poor transport facilities which do not favour expectant mothers. Nyakitonto Youth For Development Tanzania realized that in Kigoma region especially in Kibondo, Kasulu and Kigoma rural, women are less informed of the availability and correct use of Misoprostol. We discovered that expectant mothers are normally using traditional herbs to prevent excessive bleeding during derivery and to make abortions. Our project aims to improve women health and prevent post-partum haemorrhage by enabling rural women to gain access and correct use of misoprostol. In doing so, we shall have improved women health; reduced marternal mortality and morbidity through the correct use of Misoprostol.

 

Broad Goal of your project: What do you want to achieve over the long term?

 

Our broad goal is to provide right information to rural women, traditional birth attendants, pharmacists, nurses and girls in rural areas about the access and correct use of Misoprostol so as to reduce maternal mortality and morbidity, child mortality rate hence improvement of women health.

• To identify      Thirty nine (39) traditional birth attendants and champion women in      Kibondo, Kasulu and Kigoma rural and provide them with knowledge about      right use of Misoprostol and give them skills of lobbying rural women to      go to seek for Misoprostol in pharmacies and dispensaries in their areas      of residence by the end of November 2013.
• To conduct a      two days workshop to one hundred and five (105) women in Kibondo, Kasulu      and Kigoma rural so as to provide them with right information on the      correct use of misoprostol by the end of November 2013.
• To conduct a      two days workshop to sixteen (16)       nurses in Kibondo, Kasulu and Kigoma rural and provide them with      right information about accessibility and right use of misoprostol by the      end of November 2013.
• To develop and      produce training materials such as :-100 bronchures ,100 cards of Swahili      Misoprostol information and 500 stickers to the targeted audiences      in Kibondo, Kasulu and Kigoma rural during Misoprostol Initiative      Programme between June and November 2013

 

Target Audience(s): Who must you reach to achieve your objective?

 

Targeted   Audience(s)	Kigoma   & its districts	Number	Total Audience
traditional birth attendants	Kibondo Kasulu and Kigoma rural	60 60 60
Children who give birth below 18 years	Kibondo Kasulu and Kigoma rural	40 40 40
Women and young pregnant girls	Kibondo Kasulu and Kigoma rural	35 35 35
Nurses        and midwifes	Kibondo Kasulu and Kigoma rural	70 70 70	210
Total			615

 

 

Tactics/ Strategies: What activities will you use to deliver your messages to your target audience(s)

 

¨      NYDT-staffs for arrangements and preparations of the workshop of misoprostol, Seminar to them on correct use of misoprostol and practice

¨      Preparing and distributing letters and announcements to the identified targeted audiences so that they attend the workshop as arranged.

¨      meeting of NYDT-staffs and arrangements NYDT-staffs who will hold the workshop

Major Strategies during workshops.

1. Preparing and operating workshops where      the targeted audience will learn, ask, discuss and share experiences about      women maternal health and usage of misoprostol.
2. Preparing and distributing bronchures,      stickers, placards and handouts about correct use of Misoprostol.
3. Workshops with the pharmacists, women,      traditional birth attendants, youths       and champion women so as to give them knowledge about correct      information on Misoprostol and safe abortion.
4. To use women promotion centre material      of language and use them as teaching materials in workshops.
5. To formulate and organize steering community committees for      every centre who will act as misoprostol      community informers (MCI) of correct use and access of Misoprostol      .This is for sustainability of the Misoprostol Initiative      programme in Kigoma
6. To make monitoring and evaluation during and after worshops. Visting      misoprostol community informers(MCI),champions women to see and ask      whether they give correct information about misoprostol.

 

Outputs: What will you produce to reach your objective

¨      More than six hundred (615) audiences in Kigoma region will be informed and trained on the correct use of misoprostol by the end of November 2014.

¨      Materials such as:- 100 bronchures ,100 cards of Swahili Misoprostol information and 500 stickers   will be distributed and used by the targeted audiences in Kibondo, Kasulu and Kigoma rural during Misoprostol Initiative Programme between June and November 2013.

¨      Nine (9) steering community committees will be formulated and will be acting as misoprostol community informers (mci)of correct use and access of Misoprostol in Kigoma region between June and November,2014.

¨      Misoprostol samples worthing 3,000,000/= tzs will be purchased and used as distributed during the program between December 2012 and November 2014.

¨      Eighteen (18) workshops in nine centres will be run and operated in Kasulu, Kibondo and Kigoma rural between June 2013 and November 2014.

¨      Training materials and health equipments (stationaries) worthing T. SHS 2,024,000/= will be purchased and used during Misoprostol Initiative Programme in Kigoma Region between January,2013 and November 2014.

¨      Six (06) NYDT staffs will have been involved and participated fully in facilitating the Misoprostol Initiative Programme in Kasulu ( two staffs), Kibondo (two staffs) and Kigoma rural (two staffs) by the end of december 2012.

¨      One hundred and fifty (150) questionnaires will be produced and used during monitoring and evaluation of the Misoprostol Initiative Programme by the end of November 2014.

 

 

Outcomes: What is the result of your outputs that demonstrates incremental progress toward your objective

 

The following outcomes are expected after the project;

• There will be      increased knowledge about the correct use of Misoprostol hence reduction      of women marternal mortarity and morbidity.
• 615 audiences in Kigoma region will be trained on the correct use of      misoprostol
• Increased in      pharmacies and dispensaries selling Misoprostol in kibondo,kasulu and      Kigoma rural as a means to accessibility of misoprostol..
• There will be      increased demand of Misoprostol since most rural women and girls will be      purchasing misoprostol.
• Increased      information of misoprsol in Kibondo,kasulu and Kigoma rural
• There will be Nine (9) steering      community committees which will be      acting as misoprostol community      informers about correct use and      access of Misoprostol in Kigoma
•        women’s health will be improved through correct uses of      Misoprostol
• There will be      reduction of women maternal mortality.
• Increased      demand of misoprostol in Kigoma.

 

1)    Budget: How much time and money will you spend on each activity

S/N	ACTIVITIES	AMOUNT ( us $ )
1	The two   days workshops- in Kibondo with the   pharmacists, traditional birth attendants, youths, nurses and Children who give birth below 18 years ,midwifes and women so   as to give them knowledge about correct information on Misoprostol.   On : November, 25th2012,from 9.00am-3.00pm to 26th 2013,from        9.00am-3.00pm   TOPIC: Right information about Correct   use and access of Misoprostol for prevent post-partum hemo rrhage (pph) Right dose to right person fo   pph Provide TBAS and Nurses with heath equipments Ccdo- conduct HIV Research	$ 10,000
2	The two days workshops-   in Kasulu   pharmacists, traditional birth attendants, youths, nurses and Children who give birth below 18 years ,midwifes and women so   as to give them knowledge about correct information on Misoprostol On December 12th 2012,from 9.00am-3.00pm toDecember 13th 2012,from        9am-2pm   TOPIC: Right information about Correct   use and access of Misoprostol for prevent post-partum hemo rrhage (pph) Right dose to right person for   PPH and Provide TBAS and Nurses with   heath equipments Ccdo- conduct HIV Research	us $ 10,000
3	The two days workshops-   in Kigoma rural with pharmacists, traditional birth attendants, youths, nurses and Children who give birth below 18 years ,midwifes and women so   as to give them knowledge about correct information on Misoprostol January        23 th2012,from 9am-3pm        and January        24th 2012,from 9am-3pm   TOPic 1.   Right information about Correct   use and access of Misoprostol for prevent post-partum hemo rrhage (pph) 3.Right   dose to right person for PPH and Provide TBAS and Nurses with heath   equipments 4. Ccdo- conduct HIV Research	Us $ 10,000
4.  5. adminitration cost	To   make monitoring and evaluation   during and after workshops 5.                                                                                  TOTAL        REQUESTED FUND.         us $   40,000         The fund above is for starting a campaign for the 2012/2013.	us $ 5000  us $ 5000

2.MOBILE LIBRARY FOR COMMUNITY SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES IN KIGOMA REGION,TANZANIA.

 

i.GOAL: The goal is that pupils,students and the community will use the mobile library to access knowledge, information and technology in their respective schools, colleges and their residences through STM (Scientific/Social sciences, Technical and Medical information available in the library)

 

ii.OBJECTIVES:By the end of the project:-

 

a.10000 pupils in community Secondary schools will access information of STM in the MOBILE LIBRARY for advancing their knowledge, technology and information services.

b.3000 students in colleges will access information of STM in the MOBILE LIBRARY for advancing their knowledge, technology and information services.

c.2000 teachers will be participating in describing the programme, its importance and inspiring students,pupils to use the MOBILE LIBRARY

d.100 Clinicians, 100 Policy makers, 50 researchers and the wider public will advance their knowledge, technology and informational services from the available MOBILE LIBRARY

e.20 Library staffs and 15 NYDT organization staffs will demonstrate ability to run the library services, technical issues, rules and regulation and marketing the MOBILE LIBRARY IN KIGOMA.

 

iii.KEY ACTIVITIES

a.Conducting 10 days' to 15 organization staffs and 20 Librarians training them on how they can run, manage, preserve and develop the MOBILE LIBRARY for community schools and colleges in Kigoma Tanzania for the sustainability of the programme. Under this activity the project manager will hire two competent facilitators who will facilitate during the workshop

b.The trained staffs and Librarians will train the targeted audiences in their respective school,colleges and their respective places on how to preserve,use and support the project for its sustainability.

c.Ordering,making fall up and buying the van and other library infrastructures suitable for MOBILE LIBRARY.

d.Buying library materials such as 20 desktop computers, 200 science books, 200 social science books, 20 dictionaries, 30 desk chairs and 2 automatic power generators.

e.Hiring technicians,Partners and Volunteers who will provide library technical assistance in running the project.

f. Operating the project

g.Monitoring and evaluating the project as well as reporting to our partners and donors on the progress of

 

Since independence of Tanzania 1961, Kigoma region has no access to library services.Therefore 20000 who are pupils,students(youths),Clinicians,Policy makers,Teachers and researchers have no access to library services which hinder them from getting valid knowledge,information,technology and other life skills. This has led to production of incompetent experts and service providers.These remain unemployed due to their being incompetent thus forcing them to join TERRORIST GROUPS like AL QAEDE,BOKO HARAMS and THE SHABABS so as to earn their living.

 

Therefore if any donnor support this project will advance knowledge in science,social science,technology and medicine where people will get employment or become privately employed.The project will also act as the potential library services to pupils/students,clinicians and researchers in Kigoma region-

Tanzania.

 

Also the community will be more informed and Trained,hence cause an increase of man power,human resources,and technicians,good policy makers as a result to development of poor societies in Kigoma and Tanzania at large.

 

Fund requred is Us $ 50,000/=

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