Inequality Monitoring in Sexual, Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn, Child and Adolescent Health: A Step-by-Step Manual
This is a practical introductory guide to strengthen and build capacity for quantitative inequality monitoring in SRMNCAH. The technical content of the manual is primarily written and designed for those involved in national SRMNCAH monitoring and evaluation efforts, including officers and programme managers who have basic knowledge and experience working with SRMNCAH data.
Technical Brief on Maternal and Newborn Health and Nutrition in Humanitarian Settings
This brief provides nutrition and health program staff working in humanitarian settings with guidelines, tools, resources, and examples of best practices, to promote linkages and integrated service delivery across nutrition and maternal and newborn health in humanitarian response.
Note technique inter-secteurs sur la santé et la nutrition maternelles etnéonatales dans les situations de crise humanitaire
Cette note propose au personnel des programmes de nutrition et de santé impliqués dans le soutien et la mise en œuvre de programmes humanitaires des orientations, des outils, des ressources et des exemples pour renforcer la coordination entre les acteurs de la SMN et de la nutrition.
Overcoming blame culture: key strategies to catalyse maternal and perinatal death surveillance and response
This commentarypresents strategies to identify, address and overcome the blame culture relating to MPDSR. It builds from Lewis’s2014 framework on the cultural environment of maternaldeath and near-miss reviews published in the BJOG 2014supplement on quality of care.
Analysing and using routine data to monitor the effects of COVID-19 on essential health services -Practical guide for national and subnational decision-makers
This practical guide can be used to help countries monitor and analyse the impact of COVID-19 on essential health services to inform planning and decision-making. It provides practical recommendations on how to use key performance indicators to analyse changes in access to and delivery of essential health services within the context of the COVID-19 pandemic; […]
The WHO Global Strategic Directions for Nursing and Midwifery (2021-2025)
This document presents evidence-based practices and an interrelated set of policy priorities that can help countries ensure that midwives and nurses optimally contribute to achieving universal health coverage and other population health goals.
Maternal and perinatal death and surveillance and response: Materials to support implementation materials to support implementation (2021)
This document is a practical step by step guidance, relevant to establish a framework to assess the burden of maternal deaths, stillbirths and neonatal deaths, including trends in numbers and causes of death and on how to link maternal and perinatal death reviews.
MPDSR Capacity building package (2021)
This document is developed to build the knowledge and skills of the facilitators to conduct a virtual workshop when in-person training is not possible.
A Network for Improving Quality of Care for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health
This brief provides an overview of the Network for Improving Quality of Care for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health and outlines how quality of care strategies in the provision and experience of care can reduce preventable maternal and newborn mortality and stillbirths. Nine countries – supported by the World Health Organization (WHO), the United Nations […]
WHO Knowledge brief : Implementation of MPDSR as part of quality of care efforts for maternal and newborn health: considerations for synergies and alignment
This knowledge brief is developed to support policy-makers, managers, practitioners and implementing partners engaged in improving quality of care for maternal, newborn and child health. The brief is informed by the implementation experience of the Network for Improving Quality of Care for Maternal Newborn and Child Health.