Improving maternal and newborn health and survival and reducing stillbirth – Progress report 2023

Using data from recently published analyses on maternal mortality, stillbirths and neonatal mortality, as well as new data on country progress towards the ENAP-EPMM coverage targets and milestones, this summary report presents the key findings from the data and priority action

Essential Newborn Care Course (second edition)

Using the Circle of Learning and Improvement, the Essential Newborn Care Course (ENCC) aims to build competencies that save lives and help all newborns reach their full potential.

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.

Every Newborn Action Plan Progress report 2019

This report presents data from 90 countries collated in 2018 using the tracking tool. Monitoring progress helps to identify current needs and gaps related to each of the Every Newborn milestones; this progress report is published to increase understanding and to help coordinate our efforts to improve maternal and newborn health and to end preventable […]

Human resource strategies to improve newborn care in health facilities in low- and middle-income countries

This documents aims to provide a framework and strategies for countries to transform their policies on human resources for health (HRH) and provide their health workers with the knowledge and technical and behavioural skills necessary for high-quality care by 2030, to ensure that all newborns survive and thrive.

Birth defects surveillance: A manual for programme managers, 2nd Edition

This manual is intended to serve as a tool for the development, implementation and ongoing improvement of a congenital anomalies surveillance programme, particularly for countries with limited resources. The focus of the manual is on population-based and hospital-based surveillance programmes.

Birth defects surveillance: quick reference handbook of selected congenital anomalies and infections

This is a companion tool to Birth defects surveillance: a manual for programme managers, and is intended for use by front-line health care professionals who are diagnosing and collecting data on congenital defects and infections.

Technical brief: Nutrition Quality of Care for Maternal, Newborn, Child, and Adolescent Health

The primary objective of the brief is to raise awareness among nutrition and MNCAH stakeholders (country and global) of the nutrition QoC standards, and of the opportunities to apply the standards to improve the quality of integrated MNCAH and nutrition services. The brief highlights early learning from three QoC Network countries (Nigeria, Ethiopia, and Ghana) […]

Every Newborn Action Plan Progress report 2018

For the Seventy-first World Health Assembly in 2018, progress on the Every Newborn resolution is included under reporting on the Global Strategy. To complement that report, the present document provides a detailed look at progress in country leadership and action toward the Every Newborn milestones.

National Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn, Child, Adolescent Health Quality Improvement Framework – Bangladesh

A guideline to help programme managers the service providers in designing, delivering and monitoring quality RMNCAH services in Bangladesh.