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Save the Children
What is PDQ?
Partnership Defined Quality is a methodology to improve the quality and
accessibility of services with community involvement in defining,
implementing, and monitoring the quality improvement process.
Partnership Defined Quality (PDQ) links quality assessment and improvement with
community mobilization.
Why use PDQ?
PDQ:
- Enhances quality improvement processes by looking for answers outside the health system
- Focuses on health issues that most affect the community
- Engages both clients and non-clients
- Empowers the community
- Gains commitment for community resources
- Enhances equitable use of services
Beyond Quality Improvement, PDQ:
- Helps eliminate social and cultural barriers to better health
- Strengthens community's capacity to improve health
- Creates a mechanism for rapid mobilization around health priorities
Partnership Defined Quality (PDQ) Facilitation Guide
This training supplement created by Save the Children enables
facilitators to conduct a PDQ training designed to equip participants with all the
skills necessary to adapt and implement PDQ in their programs.
Participants will gain an understanding of when and how PDQ can be used
to strengthen quality and access. Download PDF version of guide:
PDQ Facilitators Guide
Download PowerPoint slides included in the guide [files include speaker
notes, which are not included in the PDF version, above]. To download the presentations, right click on the link below and select "Save Target As" from the menu:
- PDQ Overview
- PDQ Design Considerations
- Building Support
- Exploring Quality Introduction
- Bridging the Gap
- Working in Partnership
- Monitoring and Evaluation of PDQ
- Evaluating PDQ in Nepal
Supporting Materials
The training supplement is designed to be used in conjunction with the
PDQ tool book: Partnership Defined Quality: A tool book for community and health
provider collaboration for quality improvement. A complete copy of the tool book
is available:
www.savethechildren.org/technical/health/PDQ_Final_Manual.pdf
The training supplement contains some exercises from Save the Children's
How to Mobilize Communities for Health and Social Change. A complete
copy of the handbook will greatly enhance any PDQ training. The handbook is
available:
www.hcpartnership.org/Publications/Field_Guides/Mobilize/htmlDocs/cac.htm
Powerpoint: Partnership Defined Quality - A partnership approach to quality improvement
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