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

Immpact Toolkit: Acronyms
Version 2
List of Acronyms and Abbreviations
| BdD | Bidan 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 |