Sowing the seeds of transformative practice to actualize women’s rights to respectful maternity care: reflections from Kenya using the consolidated framework for imp...
Publication Date
2017-12Author
Warren, Charlotte E
Ndwiga, Charity
Sripad, Pooja
Medich, Melissa
Njeru, Anne
Maranga, Alice
Odhiambo, George
Abuya, Timothy
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Despite years of growing concern about poor provider attitudes and women experiencing
mistreatment during facility based childbirth, there are limited interventions that specifically
focus on addressing these issues. The Heshima project is an evidence-based participatory
implementation research study conducted in 13 facilities in Kenya. It engaged a range of
community, facility, and policy stakeholders to address the causes of mistreatment during
childbirth and promote respectful maternity care. We used the consolidated framework for
implementation research (CFIR) as an analytical lens to describe a complex, multifaceted
set of interventions through a reflexive and iterative process for triangulating qualitative data.
Data from a broad range of project documents, reports, and interviews were collected at
different time points during the implementation of Heshima. Assessment of in-depth …