Global grant template for human milk banks

• Main Author: Jamon, Justin Angelo M.
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Animo Repository 2019
• Subjects: Breast milk—Collection and preservation—Philippines—Quezon City
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/etd_masteral/6978
• Institution: De La Salle University

This action research paper describes the challenges and opportunities of institutionalizing the implementation of the human milk bank project for the Rotary Club of Timog – Quezon City. The human milk bank project is the Rotary Club of Timog’s flagship project. The human milk bank is a service for collecting, screening, processing, storing, and distributing donated human milk to premature and sick newborns. The HMB can also serve for mothers who cannot produce their own milk for their child. The implementation of the human milk bank are essentially hospital selection, procurement of equipment, and handover to the hospital. The global grant template is adhered to the grants application process of Rotary International that funds the human milk bank projects. The action research is created to operationalize the end to end process of all human milk bank projects. The thrust of Rotary is to put at least one human milk bank per region throughout the Philippines. The action research addresses this by creating a written operations manual that documents the step by step procedure of the implementation. This helps to store necessary club know how to pass down to all current and future club officers of the Rotary Club of Timog – Quezon City. The results of the action research show that there only specific people know the process on the HMB project. Through the action research tools, it also showed that there is no proper documentation and succession of the process from one club officer to another. To address this the operations manual is creation to institutionalize this process. The framework of Developing Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) by McDowall (2012) was used to document the procedure. The Change Commitment Curve by Nelson (2016) is then used to get the buy in from the club so they would accept the proposed change