Protecting the Rights of Women to Affordable and Quality Health Care in Armenia: Evaluation of the Maternity Care Certificate Program (USAID Civic Advocacy Support Program, Counterpart International – Armenia office)

 The goal of this project is to contribute to the MOH efforts to reduce/eliminate the practice of out-of-pocket, particularly informal, payments for maternity services that are guaranteed by public funding through government payments to hospitals assuring equal quality and access to health care and social benefits.  The project will also help to improve access to justice and rule of law.  This will be achieved by recognizing the strong and weak components of the program and identifying mechanisms for improvement through a qualitative assessment in Yerevan and two marzes of Armenia.  When the results are ready, CHS will organize a public policy round table to share the findings with the MOH, Parliament Health Committee, NGOs, students, graduates, and faculty.