SQUEAC Report, Kandahar City, (MEDIAR)

ACF- Afghanistan supported Medair to conduct a SQUEAC assessment in Kandahar city of Kandahar province. This was conducted between 4th -25th may 2015 covering the mobile sites which are supported by Medair to supplement the existing services under the BPHS. The assessment had the objective of determining the coverage estimate for the program and the factors affecting the program implementation (boosters and barriers) and recommending actions for improvement of the coverage in the outreach program. The assessment also targeted building the capacity of the program staff on coverage assessment using the SQUEAC methodology and also on the use of the SQUEAC tools in the routine evaluation of the program. By use of the Bayesian technique, the assessment reported coverage estimate of 48.2% (40.9% – 55.8%) using the single coverage estimator1.