Description

This kit has been designed to provide essential  clothing for newborns in acute humanitarian settings. Together with the Community Newborn Kit: Community Health Worker Kit (Part B), this kit has been developed to supply basic newborn care at the community level. 

Context of use 

This kit is intended for use at the community level.

Adapted from the IAWG (Inter-agency Working Group on Reproductive Health in Crises), this kit is part of the community newborn kit serving the needs of 10,000 people for 3 months, and it is intended to be used in conjunction with the Community Newborn Kit: Community Health Worker Kit (Part B). 

Together these kits have been designed to expedite the provision of basic newborn care in acute humanitarian settings, primarily within low and middle-income countries. They may also be helpful to meet care needs in higher-income countries during certain circumstances (e.g. natural disasters). 

However, these kits do not contain all the supplies, medicine, and equipment necessary to address every newborns’ health needs. They are complementary to the RH Kits, which provide additional supplies for maternal and neonatal care. In addition, vaccines and diapers (nappies) should be locally procured. 

A rapid assessment of the local situation is advised to confirm the need for newborn healthcare kits prior to kit procurement. This will include a review of existing resources as well as an assessment of the expected needs specific to the target population. If possible this assessment should utilize available pre-crisis demographic and services data.

Scaling 

This kit has been designed based on the assumption that in 3 months period, in a population of 10,000 people with a crude birth rate of 40, there will be one hundred deliveries and another one hundred people will be in the last trimester of pregnancy (from week 28 till birth).

To ease the calculation, this kit consists of 100 individual packages to be distributed directly to 100 pregnant persons, who are in labor, or the last trimester of pregnancy. Where possible, the distribution must be aligned with the antenatal care (ANC) visits.

Source

Newborn Care Supply Kits for Humanitarian Settings, 1st edition (Inter-agency Working Group on Reproductive Health in Crises, 2019, pp.12-13)

Materials and guidelines

• Pictograph, Breastfeeding, for mothers (IAWG).

Solution creators

This solution was developed by Paula Przybylowicz Vidal with contributions from Anuradha Dissanayake.