Tanzania is one of the 11 countries that set-up the Network for Improving Quality of Care for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health (Quality of Care Network).

In 2026, quality of care is at the core of Tanzania’s MNH Acceleration Plan, from a commitment to quality improvement processes, to strengthening the capacity of health workers, to the availability of commodities. The plan highlights: 

• Supporting the coverage of data-driven quality improvement processes such as clinical audits and Maternal and Perinatal Death Surveillance and Response (MPDSR). 
• Prioritizing a data-driven health workforce strategy for the quantification, recruitment, equitable distribution, performance management, remuneration, incentives, competency and retention of nurse-midwives, neonatal nurses, and anaesthesia providers. 
• Preparing to integrate new emergency obstetric and newborn care signal functions at all levels with a focus on primary healthcare facilities.
• Strengthening in-country availability and supply chain systems for commodities supporting high-impact interventions, including heat-stable carbetocin to prevent postpartum hemorrhage, caffeine citrate to treat breathing issues in newborns, and hydralazine to treat pre-eclampsia and eclampsia.
• Supporting effective coverage and scale-up of innovative, evidence-based  interventions and models of care, including midwifery-led care, group antenatal care,  birth companionship, the implementation of WHO’s Labour Care Guide, point-of-care ultrasound, and care bundles such as safer birth bundles of care and E-MOTIVE.