Sharpened One Plan 2014-15: with a focus on the newborn baby

The Sharpened One Plan 2014-2015 is Tanzania’s national strategy to accelerate progress towards the original One Plan 2008-2015, and the Millennium Development Goals 4 and 5, for reducing maternal, newborn and child mortality.This factsheet outlines the interventions to save newborns, including:Family planning

1. Demand creation and increased service provision – focus on youth
2. Scale up of family planning outreach services
3. Increase skilled family planning providers
4. Increase access to sexual and reproductive health information and contraception for age group 15-24 years
5. Integrate family planning with other services including postpartum care, post-abortion care, HIV services, immunization and cervical cancer screening

Care at birth, postpartum and postnatal care

1. Strengthen emergency obstetric and newborn care (EmONC) services and postpartum/postnatal care
2. Lay foundation for introduction of antenatal corticosteroids for preterm birth
3. Clinical mentoring and supportive supervision for EmONC
4. Build capacity for quality postnatal and postpartum care

Commodity Security and Accountability for RMNCH Services

1. Orient regions and council committees to availability of RMNCH commodities at Medical Stores Department
2. Review Report and Requisition forms to monitor consumption
3. Conduct monthly checks for monitoring trends and stock
4. Introduce local and national accountability mechanisms for stock monitoring and redistribution
5. Empowering communities and facility governing committees through implementing Maternal and Perinatal Death Surveillance and Response, and use of scorecard data 

If all these interventions are delivered and scaled up in Tanzania 18,400 lives will be saved by end of 2015, including:

• 9,400 newborns
• 2,500 stillbirths
• 5,100 children aged 1-59 months
• 1,400 mothers

Evidence for Action. (2014). The Sharpened One Plan 2014-2015: with a focus on the newborn baby. London: Evidence for Action.