Country Group Work

DAYS 4 & 5 OF THE HBS ASIA WORKSHOP

Agenda and Country Group Work Sessions

April 12th
8:30 9:00 am

Introduction to group work

9:00 10:00 am

Discuss Essential Care for Every Baby, Essential Care for

Small Babies training in context to existing training
programs in country

10:00 2:30 pm

Quality Improvement

2:30 3:30 pm:

Opportunities for strengthening Quality Improvement

approaches for maternal and newborn health

4:00 5:00 pm

Bottle Neck Analysis

Agenda and Country Group Work Sessions

April 13th
8:30 9:15 am

Procurement bottle neck plenary discussions with

country case studies

9:15 12:00 noon

Develop 0 draft action plans

1:00 3:30 pm

Sharing country discussions and action plans

3:30 4:30 pm

Learning, Sharing and keeping connected workshop

evaluation
Closing and certificate distribution

Rationale behind Country Group Work

Review existing capacity building

plans and discuss whether there
are gaps that can be addressed
with the newly acquired knowledge
and experience

Rationale behind Country Group Work

Take a systems approach for

planning and implementing any
capacity building efforts

Rationale behind the Country Group Work

Take a quality improvement

approach for planning and
implementing any capacity building
efforts

Rationale behind the Country Group Work

Develop preliminary action plans for a
comprehensive approach to capacity
building with intent to finalize with broader
group of relevant MNH stakeholders in
country

Some logistics

Group Work process

MOH Leadership
Rapporteur
Presentation of group work - share and learn

Support during group work

2 members from country team
Global team members circulating to respond to
questions, trouble shoot as necessary
Observer countries China and Cambodia
Bangladesh National TWG members group work on
the 14th floor

Country Group Work

Tool

About the tool

Just a tool.

Tool to facilitate group discussions

Flexibility for country teams to modify, adapt as

necessary

About the tool

Capture preliminary decisions and continue
discussions for concrete decisions with inputs from a
wider group of in-country MNH stakeholders

Please note
Do not start from scratch refer to existing reports
and plans
Guiding questions are generic

Start from where your country is in terms

of progress in newborn capacity building

About the tool

One excel document with 6 sheets to capture all of
the group work sessions of Days 4 & 5
Sheets are linked for efficiency
Offers possibility to skip questions that are not
relevant to country context and to create items that
are more important

Tool Overview
First Sheet: Country Team Profile: Prefilled: check and
ensure correctness of information captured
Second sheet: Helping Babies Survive and Country Context
Third sheet: Quality Improvement
Fourth sheet: Bottle Neck and Actions
Fifth sheet: 0 draft of Action Plans
Sixth sheet: Training planning tool

Bottle Neck Analysis and Action Sheet

Policy & strategies bottle neck: in case of yes answers, please
elaborate with comments on status of operationalization
For implementation, please note scale and coverage of
interventions (demonstration project or scale up)
Please note the number of districts where implementation has
started out of total number of districts in country / province /
state
Maximum of 3 priority actions, but be practical

Tool Walk Through

Country Group Work Tool_FINAL.xlsx