SurveyMETER in collaboration with The Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) conducted a 2015 Child and Mother Health Survey (SKAI). This survey is an impact study of the Transparency for Development (T4D) or Transparency for Development program. T4D is a project led jointly by Harvard Kennedy School and Results for Development Institute (R4D) to assess whether well-designed Transparency and Accountability interventions (T / A) can improve the health of mothers, infants and children (MNCH).

The T4D project study involved 200 villages in 17 selected districts / cities in Banten Province (Pandeglang Regency, Lebak Regency, Serang Regency, Tangerang Regency, and Cilegon City) and South Sulawesi Province (Bone, Wajo, Soppeng, Sidrap, Pinrang, Bulukumba , Bantaeng, Enrekang, Sinjai, Luwu, Maros and Barru). The study sample areas were selected based on a number of criteria, including: low coverage of key indicators of maternal, infant and child health (MNCH), limited interventions related, as well as ease in carrying out ongoing project monitoring and evaluation.

The 2015 SKAI study is a baseline study of the two planned study stages. Study data were collected in three types, namely survey of health facilities, households and communities. The main purpose of the study is to obtain evidence that can be followed up by practitioners, researchers, and other stakeholders who work in efforts to improve health, institutional accountability, and community participation.

In this study, an intervention will be carried out in 100 villages and implemented a randomized controlled trial (RCT) strategy to evaluate its impact. A total of 200 households will be randomized into 2 groups: the group that received the intervention treatment and the control group that did not receive intervention during the study period. The intervention villages and control villages were randomly selected by T4D researchers as part of the research design.

The facility survey team first collected field data because the data it collected became a reference in determining household and community samples. The target of the health facility team is to collect data on 650 health facilities consisting of puskesmas, pustu and polydes / poskesdes / village health centers (PKD). The facility team is divided into two waves. The first wave will interview 250 health centers starting to collect data on February 9 yesterday and is planned to be completed in early March 2015. The second wave will interview 400 other health facilities (pustu and polindes / poskesdes / PKD) which carry out together with household and community surveys in April - May 2015.

This data collection of health facilities aims, among other things, to find out the working area of ​​the health facility and its population, other health facilities that are in the working area of ​​the puskesmas or commonly used by the community in the work area even though they are outside the working area of ​​the puskesmas. In addition, it is also to find out basic information on the health facilities including: human resources (number and qualifications of staff), condition of facilities, equipment, medicines. Includes important facility-level data on MCH indicators (for example, number of births, etc.), knowledge of the mother, neonatal, and child health from staff who have been in charge of assisting childbirth. (JF)