EMRO

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EMRO
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Requirements for IMCI sustainability

• 2. PLANNING

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• Planning
• Long-term, medium-term
• Short-term
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• For sustainability

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• 1. Planning long- and medium-term
• Institutionalisation ? established to remain
• (going beyond single individuals and short-term
  appointments of decision-makers)
• Policies setting long-term directions (e.g.,
  National Health Plan Child Health Policy
  policies on Immunisation, Vitamin A Iron
  supplementation, Breastfeeding, Food
  fortification MOH structure, Community health
  workers)
• Strategies (e.g., MDGs, PHC, IMCI/Child Health
  interventions, BFHI, NIDs, Pre-service education)

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• Planning
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• Defining objectives and priorities
• Selecting measurable process and outcome
  indicators
• Setting targets based on progress and resources
• Selecting strategies and interventions
• Committing resources
• Coordinating activities (partners, institutions,
  programmes)
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• Sustainability

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• 2. Planning short-term
• Annual plans ? moving forward towards the targets
  within the national health plan framework
• Levels National/federal, provincial/governorate,
  district
• Building capacity for planning
• Planning based on progress collecting and
  making use of data
• Revising plans, targets and strategies as needed
• Feeding results back to the field

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• Planning for policies, MDGs, partnerships,
  capacity-building, health systems, community,
  specific interventions, advocacy, communication
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• Comprehensive plans
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• Sustainability

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• Country examples on
• Planning for MDGs (Sudan)
• Making use of results from surveys (Egypt and
  Sudan)
• Selecting indicators and setting targets
  (Tunisia)
• Building district planning capacity (Egypt)

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• Documentation
• Millennium Development Goals Background on
  resolutions and declarations related to child
  health
• Why is CAH/EMRO encouraging ministries of health
  to plan for the child health-related Millennium
  Development Goals?
• IMCI health facility survey, Egypt, March 2002
  report and findings booklet
• Other references on CD MDGs, 2002 CAH progress
  report, child health-related indicators at health
  facility and household levels

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Planning

• to sustain your efforts and get there

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Planning

• a regular and dynamic process