African
Union
d.
Assess the progress made by providing following information:
Last household survey and capacity of national statistics services;
Proportion of population below USD 1.00 per day;
Poverty line;
Headcount ratio, Poverty gap ratio;
Prevalence of underweight children under five years of age;
Proportion of population below minimum level of dietary energy consumption
Describe, where necessary, the system for regular monitoring of the state of
pauperization in various social areas (efficient and updated database, regularly
estimated poverty indicators …)
e.
Identify constraints to the attainment of above goals and propose measures to
overcome them and consolidate the progress made.
QUESTION 4:
What are the national programmes, policies and strategies set up by the
government to reduce child mortality, improve maternal health and combat HIV/AIDS,
malaria and other diseases?
Indicators
a.
Describe national programmes and sectoral policies and strategies set up to
achieve the above goals
b.
Assess the effectiveness of those policies and strategies in terms of:
The capacity of the National Statistics Institute to deliver;
Under-five mortality rate;
Infant mortality rate;
Proportion of one year old children immunized against measles;
Maternal mortality ratio;
Proportion of births attended by skilled health person;
Contraceptive prevalence rates for married people;
HIV prevalence among population aged 15-24 years ;
Proportion of population with advanced HIV infection with access to antiretroviral
drugs;
Incidence of death rates associated with malaria;
Proportion of children under five sleeping under insecticide-treated bed-nets;
Incidence, prevalence and death associated with tuberculosis.
c.
Identify constraints to the implementation of above policies and recommend
measures to alleviate them
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