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In-depth Research of Innovative Practices
Zero Project Analysis
presented by:
EASPD and
Essl Foundation
Edition #1, April 2016
Reducing infant mortality
in Europe’s poorest country
Country:
Moldova, Districts Floresti and Laloveni
Organisation:
Lumos Foundation
MANAGEMENT SUMMARY:
Lumos Foundation, an international non-governmental charity
organization, collaborates with governments (at all levels), various professionals and caregivers,
other NGOs, faith-based groups, as well as communities, families, and children to help trans-
form outdated systems that arbitrarily separate children from their families. Among its activities,
Lumos in Moldova has supported the Government to establish an inter-sector medical-social
cooperation mechanism to prevent and reduce infant and under-five mortality rates at home, and
has offered assistance in implementing this mechanism in two districts (Floresti and Laloveni).
• Annually, around 11,000 children under-five years from families at risk across the
country are identified,examined, and assisted by both a doctor and a social worker.
• By the end of 2015, Lumos had assisted more than 1,500 at-risk children under five
years in the pilot regions.
All levels of government and all stakeholders
work together
The rate of infant mortality
in Moldova decreases
2010
2014
11.7‰
9.6‰
Edition #1 | published April 2016