Performance Monitoring for Action Ethiopia (PMA Ethiopia) builds on the previous success of PMA2020/Ethiopia and PMA Maternal and Newborn Health study in the Southern Nations, Nationalities and Peoples Region (SNNP). PMA Ethiopia is a five-year project implemented in collaboration with Addis Ababa University, Johns Hopkins University, and the Federal Ministry of Health. It measures key reproductive, maternal and newborn health (RMNH) indicators.  The funding is provided by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. 

Cross-sectional data, including a health facility-based survey, are collected annually in all regions. Longitudinal data (following pregnant women through one year postpartum) are collected in two cohorts of women (2019-2021 and 2021-2023) in four large, predominantly agrarian regions: Tigray, Oromiya, Amhara, and Southern Nations, Nationalities, and Peoples’ Region, and one urban region, Addis Ababa. Afar is included in the first cohort (2019-2021) of the longitudinal survey.

PMAET 2023 Cross-sectional survey used a two-stage cluster design with urban-rural, and major regions as strata. A total of 280 enumeration areas (EAs) were selected from the master sample frame and a cross-section of 35 households are randomly selected from within each enumeration area. All women aged 15–49-years old in the selected households are eligible for the cross-sectional survey. The final sample included 9,763 households and 8,943 women who completed the survey.