initiative for maternal mortality programme assessment
Immpact Toolkit: a guide and tools for maternal mortality programme assessment
Module 5

Immpact Toolkit: Acronyms

Version 2


List of Acronyms and Abbreviations

BdDBidan di Desa
BEOC Basic Emergency Obstetric Care
CCG Country Coordinating Group
CDC Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
CEMD Confidential Enquiry into Maternal Deaths
CHAPS Community HIV and Aids Prevention Strategy
CHW Community Health Worker
DHS Demographic and Health Survey
Epi Info epidemiology data entry and analysis software
EQ Evaluation Question
FGD Focus Group Discussion
GFR General Fertility Rate
HWIS Health Worker Incentive Survey
InterVA-M Interpretation of Verbal Autopsy material for Maternal/non-maternal deaths
KAP Knowledge, Attitudes and Practice survey
KVIP Kumasi Improved Ventilated Pit
LTR lifetime risk
MADE-IN Maternal Death from Informants
MADE-FOR Maternal Death Follow-On Review
MMR Maternal Mortality Ratio
MMRate Maternal Mortality Rate
MPS Making Pregnancy Safer (WHO Programme)
MRFRA Mortality Rate Amongst Females of Reproductive Age
NGO non-governmental organization
NVivo analysis software
OAP Outcomes After Pregnancy
PDA Personal Digital Assistant
PLA Participatory Learning and Action
PMR proportionate mortality ratio
PONEK Service of Obstetric Neonatal Emergency Quality (Indonesia - Bahasa)
PONED Pelayanan Obstetri Neonatal Dasar (Indonesia – Bahasa) Essential Neonatal Obstetric Care)
PPS Probability Proportional to Size
PQOC Perceptions of Quality of Care
RAMOS Reproductive Age Mortality Survey
RAPID Rapid Ascertainment Process for Institutional Maternal Deaths
RRA Rapid Rural Appraisal
SAFE skilled attendance for everyone
SPSS Statistical Package for the Social Sciences
SSS Sampling at Service Sites
Stata data analysis and statistical software
TBA traditional birth attendant
TRACE Inquiry to trace adverse and favourable events in pregnancy care
UN United Nations
UNICEF United Nations Children's Fund
UNFPA United Nations Fund for Population Activities
USAID United States Agency for International Development
VAS visual analogue scale
WHO World Health Organization
WRA women of reproductive age