An Implementation Study of Interventions to Promote Safe Motherhood in Jimma Zone Ethiopia

The MWA intervention will involve upgrading existing maternity waiting areas to ensure that essential supplies and services are available to create a comfortable environment for women to temporarily reside in and have easy access to skilled obstetric services.

"Community and religious leaders will each attend one-day workshops designed using participatory, adult learning methods to help participants better understand the importance of maternal health care services, identify barriers to accessing care and to strategize how to promote utilization of services. Half-day workshops will conducted in subsequent years to build on shared experiences.~Health extension workers will attend 3-day workshops to identify enablers and barriers to implementation of the safe motherhood components of the health extension program and strategize on how to engage community and religious leaders to support access to maternal health care services in their communities.~Half-day workshops will conducted in subsequent years for each of the participant groups to build on shared experiences."