This brief was authored by Dr. Etienne Dioh, Dr. Babacar Gueye, Dr. Yankhoba Dial, Abdou Gueye, Sujata Bijou, and Melanie Joiner and originally published on www.intrahealth.org.
This brief details the Tutorat approach, which emphasizes capacity building of health service providers within their health centers by trained peers through intensive on-site, on-the-job, tailored mentorship over the period of several months. Providers participating in this approach had impressive gains in the reproductive health modules: Management of pregnancy, delivery, and post-partum and Family planning.