An Initiative on Quality Assessment in the Title II Based Safe Motherhood and Child Survival Program of Catholic Relief Services, Lucknow, UP, India

The current article is about the quality assessment of health program of Catholic Relief Services CRS , Lucknow during the period from 1996 to 2001. The name of the program was Safe Motherhood and Child Survival SMCS program. The program was food aid based through the Indo US agreement where CRS implemented the program through its Non Governmental Organization NGO partners in Lucknow. During the period 1998 to 2000, CRS, Lucknow integrated a project to assess the program quality using the Lot Quality Assurance Sampling LQAS technique. The health program or the SMCS program of CRS, Lucknow implemented the LQAS intervention with all of its NGO partner implementing the SMCS program in various districts of Uttar Pradesh.The article details out the outlines of the food aid programs between India and the United States and the role of CRS in the process. It also gives a glimpse of the health program of CRS, Lucknow that is known as the Safe Motherhood and Child Survival SMCS program and its components. Thereafter, it delves into the details of the LQAS technique integration in the program, lay out plan to build the capacity of the program staff to integrate the component in their programmatic areas in various parts of the state of UP.The technique is highlighted through the samples that need to be selected for assessment of each of the components of the SMCS program thereby depicting the benefit of the integration. Explanations are also given and illustrated lucidly for the simplification of the process of application of the LQAS technique in the SMCS program. The article is a reflection of how far the state of UP has moved ahead in the field of assessment of the quality of Maternal Neonatal Child Health and Nutrition MNCHN that is reflected through the introduction of the Quality Assurance QA wing since the introduction of National Rural Health Mission in 2005. A lot has been done regarding qualitative assessment both qualitatively and quantitatively since the last two decades when the introduction of LQAS technique was done in the SMCS program. The current article is based on quantitative aspect through which qualitative aspects were deuced to improve program quality. Dr. Tridibesh Tripathy | Ms. Anjali Tripathy "An Initiative on Quality Assessment in the Title II Based Safe Motherhood and Child Survival Program of Catholic Relief Services, Lucknow, UP, India" Published in International Journal of Trend in Scientific Research and Development (ijtsrd), ISSN: 2456-6470, Volume-4 | Issue-5 , August 2020, URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/papers/ijtsrd33164.pdf Paper Url :https://www.ijtsrd.com/medicine/other/33164/an-initiative-on-quality-assessment-in-the-title-ii-based-safe-motherhood-and-child-survival-program-of-catholic-relief-services-lucknow-up-india/dr-tridibesh-tripathy