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Table 1 Criteria/minimum requirements determined for assessing preparedness to integrate CMAM into the health system

From: Perspectives for integration into the local health system of community-based management of acute malnutrition in children under 5 years: a qualitative study in Bangladesh

Themes

Criteria

Nutrition governance

1. Existence of a government child health/nutrition policy

2. Inpatient and outpatient CMAM guidelines developed and disseminated

3. Nutrition coordination mechanism chaired by the Ministry of health from national to district levels

Nutrition financing

4. Existence of a funding mechanism/policy for child health/nutrition

5. Existence of funds allocated to nutrition and CMAM

Health and nutrition service delivery

6. Existence of functional health centres

7. Provision of inpatient health and nutrition services

8. Provision of outpatient health and nutrition services

9. Provision of outreach health and nutrition services

Human resources

10. Health staff trained on CMAM and sufficient number available for child health and nutrition service delivery

11. Motivating working conditions for health workers

Equipment and supply

12. Inpatient health centres have a paediatric ward, sufficient equipment, storage facilities, essential medicines and therapeutic foods

13. Outpatient health centres have sufficient equipment, storage facilities, essential medicines and therapeutic foods

Referral, Monitoring and supervision mechanism

14. Functional referral mechanism between health centres

15. Existence of a health/nutrition reporting mechanism

16. Regular field monitoring and supervision