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Options has strong experience working in Cambodia. See below for examples of Options' significant work in the region.
Cambodia
- Maternal and reproductive health in Cambodia. Options managed the DFID-funded Reducing Maternal Mortality Programme (RMMP) 2006–2010, working alongside the Government’s Health Sector Support Programme. RMMP helped to reduce maternal mortality rates by increasing the poor’s access to affordable maternal health services, improving access to safe abortion care and long-term family planning. Options developed and delivered a programme to assess, upgrade and renovate facilities to minimum operating standards. This programme involved the training and equipping of providers who were then supported by RMMPs quality assurance team. Options provided long and short term technical assistance to develop the curriculum and relevant protocols and supported the government of Cambodia to deliver the training and quality assurance strategy. During the time Options delivered RMMP, there was an overall 69% increase in women using safe abortion services, exceeding the project’s original target. RMMP ensured that comprehensive abortion care services were available in 13 selected hospitals and the remainder provide basic abortion care. Since the beginning of the programme, safe abortion services were provided to 23,057 women by 345 trained health workers and RMMP successfully advocated for abortion –
with a focus on equity of access by the poor – to be included in the national health sector plan 2008–2015.
- Urban Health Project. Options managed the DFID-funded Urban Health Project, 1999–2003. The Urban Health Project was part of the Government’s wider programme of health sector reform. The Urban Health Project worked to increase utilisation of good quality, affordable health services, particularly by urban poor people. The Urban Health Project developed mechanisms to manage the interface between the public and private health sectors. Public sector health providers were contracted to provide quality basic health care outreach services to urban poor communities and an approved providers scheme which accredited private medical providers was established along with a continuous medical education programme.
- Participatory Ethnographic Evaluation and Research was undertaken among ethnic groups in southern Laos, to generate the evidence-base for the design of a demand creation programme for reproductive and maternal health services. Findings were used to design appropriate messages, interventions and community-based activities to address high levels of maternal mortality.
- Impact of HIV and AIDS on Agricultural Systems and Nutrition. Options led a study to produce guidelines on nutrition, food and HIV and AIDS for research priority setting for the National Agricultural Research organisations (NARS), and guidelines for the NARS outlining a range of options for addressing labour-constraints in AIDS-afflicted communities paying particular attention to the gender-dimensions of the epidemic.
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