TY  - GEN
AU  - Pinto, Maria Frances S. 
AU  - Estioko, Roberto Q. (Chairperson).
AU  - Politico, Maryruth (Institutional Partner/External Expert).
AU  - Caampued, Michael S. (Member).
TI  - Strengthening the role of community stakeholders in the improvement of facility based delivery in Matungao, Lanao Del Norte
KW  - Maternal health services
KW  - Government policy
KW  - Philippines--Puntod, Lanao Del Norte
KW  - Community development
KW  - Community participation
N1  - Graduate School of Public and Development Management
N2  - In the struggle to address gaps in maternal health service delivery with limited financial and human resources, there is a pressing need to prioritize health problems and maximize resources to aptly provide health solutions. Hence, this study works on tapping and engaging the community as an avenue to improving the local maternal health service delivery particularly in the implementation of a municipal birthing clinic. The study also conceptualizes a framework for community engagement in this context.  Document review, key informant interview and surveys were employed to facilitate situational analysis, stakeholder mapping and analysis on the state of local maternal health service delivery in the area. The community stakeholders were then engaged through consultative meetings. As a result, additional financial resource was mobilized from the community stakeholders. Additional health volunteers were also recruited and thus, augmenting the health human resource requirement for maternal health service delivery. The primary human workforce mobilized were the health staff, barangay health workers, community health teams and barangay officials. The primary role played by these community health partners is that on navigation and delivery of primary health services in the community, health advocacy and health information dissemination. In Barangay Puntod, the partnership with the BLGU and BHWs further improved maternal health service delivery as the BLGU and BHWs took on the task of managing the Puntod barangay health station.  Although the study is still a work in progress with pending operation of the municipal birthing clinic, engagement of the community stakeholders in the delivery of maternal health services has been successful and fruitful. Hence, proving that the community is a potential that ought to be tapped for the improvement and sustainability of local health service delivery
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