The MAQ Exchange
Overview ♦ Content ♦ Who Benefits ♦ How do Participants Benefit ♦ For More Information ♦ Presentations ♦ Photos from MAQ Exchanges ♦ Photo Bank
Overview
The MAQ Exchange is a means of engaging USAID Missions, their country counterparts, USAID/W and collaborating agencies (CAs) in a dialogue aimed at developing or improving programs that reflect MAQ principles and practices. It is a product of the MAQ Initiative which for several years has joined the efforts of USAID, CAs and host country partners to collect field expertise and to apply state-of-the-art methods to maximize access to high quality family planning and other selected reproductive health services through a client-centered approach.
The MAQ Exchange is not training. Rather, it is a process of sharing the wealth of new information, data and lessons learned on improving access and quality. This facilitates strategy development for application in your existing programs. The process begins with a needs assessment. The centerpiece activity is a 3 to 4-day interactive and results-oriented workshop conducted by a team of master trainers with relevant technical and programmatic expertise. In the course of the workshop, the mission and its partners draft action plans using the "Synergy of Interventions" framework. This process equips the mission and its partners to implement a set of prioritized and realistic activities.
Content
This MAQ Exchange curriculum is comprised of a set of technical modules and can be tailored to the specific needs of host country programs and USAID missions. The following is a comprehensive list of MAQ Exchange curriculum modules:
- Introduction
- MAQ Key Concepts
- Barriers to Access and Quality
- Service Delivery Guidelines
- Contraceptive Technology Update
- Infection Prevention
- Client-Centered Communication: The Client, the Provider, and the Community
- Dual Protection
- STI/FP Integration
- Postabortion Care
- Adolescent Reproductive Health
- Provider Perspective/Organization of Work
- Performance Improvement
- Quick Investigation of Quality
- Logistics/Supply Management
- Supportive Supervision
- Leadership
- Community Defined Quality
- Birth Spacing
- Antenatal Care
- Normal Labor & Childbirth
Who Benefits
Mission staff, cooperating agency field staff, local Ministry of Health staff, service providers, and other donor agencies can all participate, share and benefit. The ultimate beneficiaries will be the men, women and children of the host country.
How Do Participants Benefit?
- By reviewing the literature and programmatic experiences that are the foundation of principles and practices to improve access and quality.
- By discussing ways to apply these practices and principles effectively to your country program.
- By sharing lessons learned and expertise among implementing partners.
- By developing a shared vision and strategy for effectively achieving the Mission's strategic objective through a process that facilitates improved collaboration among all implementing partners.
- By utilizing the MAQ Exchange package of resources which includes reference materials, publications, training curricula and specific tools to improve service delivery.
See also the MAQ Exchange Evaluation Report This report describes the outcomes of the Latin American and Caribbean MAQ Exchange, the first regional MAQ Exchange, held in April 2002. Report Summary.
For More Information
Contact Rushna Ravji, Service Delivery Technical Advisor, telephone 202-712-4548, or e-mail rravji@usaid.gov, for assistance with coordination, scheduling, content and selection of master trainers to tailor the MAQ Exchange to meet national and Mission needs. You may also contact Elizabeth Greene, Program Assistant for the MAQ Initiative, telephone 202-712-0843, or e-mail egreene@usaid.gov.
