Impact Evaluation of Community-led Maternal Health Care Initiatives in Rural Ethiopian Communities,

This study evaluates the impact of community-led maternal health care initiatives in rural Ethiopian communities over a period from to. Data collection was conducted through a combination of structured interviews with community leaders and focus group discussions among mothers and healthcare providers. Quantitative data were analysed using descriptive statistics and inferential tests, including logistic regression to evaluate the impact of interventions on maternal health outcomes. Community-led initiatives showed a significant improvement in access to antenatal care (ANC) services, with a proportion increase from 25% to 40% among women who received ANC. This trend was supported by robust standard errors indicating confidence intervals around the effect size of interventions. The findings suggest that community-led initiatives effectively enhanced maternal health outcomes in rural Ethiopian communities, particularly in terms of increased access to essential healthcare services. Future research should focus on scaling up these successful models and exploring their scalability within different socio-economic contexts. Policy recommendations include integrating such interventions into national health programmes for broader impact. Maternal Health Care, Community-Led Initiatives, Rural Ethiopia, Maternal Mortality Reduction Treatment effect was estimated with logit (pᵢ) =₀+^ Xᵢ, and uncertainty reported using confidence-interval based inference.