Small beginnings, steady footprints

Highlights

The Home Visiting Programme (HV) was established in 2014 by the Ministry of Health supported by UNICEF and since then it has rapidly increased its coverage; thus contributing to improve maternal neonatal and child health and wellbeing, especially for the most vulnerable. However, as shown by the 2019-2020 MICS, achieving the best possible impact of the Kosovo HV programme is more necessary than ever to address the unfinished agenda of Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn and Child Health (RMNCH) and to fully achieve the potential of the programme to improve child development, with a focus on the most vulnerable communities.

To provide guidance for Kosovo authorities and donors for further expanding the programme coverage and increasing its quality, UNICEF a case study that documents the background, rationale and strategies of the HV Programme in Kosovo and describes its results, challenges, lessons learned, and recommendations derived from it. The case study is meant to update the findings of the evaluation made in 2019, when the programme was still in its early phases, taking into account the significant developments the programme made since then and the challenges that have been encountered in the implementation phase.