Community Based Newborn Care Baseline Survey Report Ethiopia, October 2014

On behalf of the Federal Ministry of Health of Ethiopia, the Baseline Survey of the Community Based Newborn Care (CBNC) programme was conducted by the Informed Decisions for Actions in Maternal and Newborn Health (IDEAS) project, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. In this report we provide an executive summary (Chapter 1) and an introduction (Chapter 2), which provides a brief background on the status of maternal and newborn health (MNH) in Ethiopia and introduces the CBNC programme. An overview of the CBNC evaluation, with a focus on the baseline survey and survey methodology, is provided in Chapter 3. In Chapters 4 and 5 we present results from the health system and household surveys, respectively. A discussion of the results and limitations of the study are detailed in Chapter 6. A brief summary of the study by intervention and comparison areas is provided in Annex I. Detailed results from the health system and household surveys in these two arms are shown in Annexes II and III, respectively.