Themes | Criteria |
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Nutrition governance | 1. Existence of a government child health/nutrition policy |
2. Inpatient and outpatient CMAM guidelines developed and disseminated | |
3. Nutrition coordination mechanism chaired by the Ministry of health from national to district levels | |
Nutrition financing | 4. Existence of a funding mechanism/policy for child health/nutrition |
5. Existence of funds allocated to nutrition and CMAM | |
Health and nutrition service delivery | 6. Existence of functional health centres |
7. Provision of inpatient health and nutrition services | |
8. Provision of outpatient health and nutrition services | |
9. Provision of outreach health and nutrition services | |
Human resources | 10. Health staff trained on CMAM and sufficient number available for child health and nutrition service delivery |
11. Motivating working conditions for health workers | |
Equipment and supply | 12. Inpatient health centres have a paediatric ward, sufficient equipment, storage facilities, essential medicines and therapeutic foods |
13. Outpatient health centres have sufficient equipment, storage facilities, essential medicines and therapeutic foods | |
Referral, Monitoring and supervision mechanism | 14. Functional referral mechanism between health centres |
15. Existence of a health/nutrition reporting mechanism | |
16. Regular field monitoring and supervision |