Abstract
LIBON has three impact-oriented and innovative sub-goals: Sub-Goal 1: To reduce neonatal mortality in the districts of Sunsari and Parsa through the application of an integrated, community-based package of interventions and service delivery strategies; Sub-Goal 2: To promote social inclusion and a fact-based decision making process for the planning and resource allocation of district-based child, maternal, and neonatal programs; Sub-Goal 3: To assist the MOHP and other constituencies in the preparation and use of knowledge, policy, and investment products that will accelerate the reduction of neonatal mortality. The LIBON project is a strong community based neonatal mortality reduction program based in three districts, Sunsari, Parsa and Bara in the Terai of Nepal where difficult terrain, limited communications, political unrest and extreme poverty and limited access to health services are the rule. The project focuses its key interventions to reach target populations of pregnant and post partum women and neonates and reaches more than 900,000 people. Key strategies to reduce maternal and neonatal mortality, improve family behaviors and increase access to quality services focus on the expansion of the Pregnant Women's Group implementing the new Government of Nepal's Community Based Neonatal Care Program (CB-NCP). (Excerpt, modified)