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CHIEP

CHIEP


RUMNET, with the support of UNICEF, has initiated a project dubbed Community Health Improvement and Education Project-CHIEP

What is CHIEP


CHIEP is a health improvement and education project. It will be implemented in the Tamale Metropolis and Karaga District. The purpose of CHIEP is to increase communities’ knowledge, attitude and practice in good sanitation, household and personal hygiene, maternal heath, infant health and early child education.

Why CHIEP


It is evident from research that, inadequate knowledge of reproductive and maternal health contributes significantly to health challenges among women and children. Most women are often uninformed about methods of safe delivery, exclusive breast feeding for the first six months, and complimentary feeding from six months upwards as well as the effects of child marriage. More so, communities are indifferent about hand washing with soap; less responsive to malaria prevention through sleeping under LLINs. Most of them are adamant about routine immunization and registration of their children between 0 – 12 months.

Some communities are used to open defecation and giving out their children early in marriage; they do not care about enrolling their children in school early. Moreover, parents think the best way to discipline their children is through corporal punishment and actions that eventually plunge the child into mental agony.

What is CHIEP's Goal


Following the above facts, the goal of CHIEP is to improve maternal wellbeing, community health, early child education and reduce child marriage in the Tamale Metropolis and Karaga district of the Northern Region.

How Will CHIEP Achieves Its Goal


CHIEP will achieve its goal through the following objectives:

  1. To increase knowledge and practice of diarrhea management with ORS and zinc among 15,000 people in 80 communities in Tamale Metro and Karaga district of the Northern Region by end of July 2017.
  2. Increase communities’ knowledge and practice of malaria prevention through sleeping under LLINS among in 80 communities in Tamale Metro and Karaga district of the Northern Region by end of July 2017.
  3. To increase the knowledge and skills of women and traditional birth attendants in Safe Delivery and the importance of registering of children between the ages of 0 – 12 months in 80 communities in Tamale Metro and Karaga district of the Northern Region by end of July 2017.
  4. To increase the knowledge and practice of expectant 5,000 mothers, in exclusive breast feeding, complimentary feeding and routine immunization by parents, especially mothers in 80 communities in Tamale Metro and Karaga district of the Northern Region by end of July 2017.
  5. To reduce the practice of open defecation in communities and increase a positive behavior of hand washing with soap and running water in 80 communities in Tamale Metro and Karaga district of the Northern Region by end of July 2017.
  6. To reduce child marriage in communities through education, reporting of cases and recue and re-enrolment of victims back to school. To facilitate early enrolment of children at the appropriate age of 4 years in school by parents across all 80 communities in Tamale Metro and Karaga district of the Northern Region by end of July 2017.
  7. To increase the habit of positive discipline among parents and guardians in 80 communities in Tamale Metro and Karaga district of the Northern Region by end of July 2017.

What Change Will CHIEP Bring

CHIEP will bring about improved maternal wellbeing, enhanced community health and progressive early child education in 80 communities in the Tamale Metropolis and Karaga District.

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