Abstract

Mother and child health is at the core of the public health system’s focus. Maternal mortality and morbidity depend on many factors, including the quality of birth care and neonatal care services [1-4]. Quality indicators should be there to measure the quality of any service. An appropriate monitoring and evaluation system is essential to improve these indicators or to keep their condition at best. In recent years, the supportive supervision approach to improving medical services has been successfully applied in various parts of the world [1,3-5]. Under the ACQUIRE project, the COPE approach (by Engender Health) is adopted to implement the supportive supervision at the selected medical facilities of a few districts in Azerbaijan. The Ministry of Healthcare decided to test the supportive supervisory approach at the ten facilities in Baku.