Providing respectful care for newborns and children
This webinar highlighted the need for improved providers’ competencies to ensure high quality, people-centered and responsive care is provided to newborns, children and their families. This webinar shared findings from a formative study conducted in two counties in Kenya on the manifestations, responses, and consequences of mistreatment of sick newborns and young infants and their […]
Advancing community engagement for quality MNH – An example from Bangladesh
This webinar shared lessons learned at the district and sub-district level in Bangladesh to advance community engagement in sustaining and improving maternal and newborn health services. Welcome and Introduction: Olive Cocoman, WHO Geneva Part 1: Community Engagement in USAID’s MaMoni Maternal and Newborn Care Strengthening Project – Dr Jatan Bhowmick & Dr Priyanka Chowdhury Part […]
Immediate action is needed (session 2)
Summary 1.7 million newborn lives could be saved each year by investing in quality newborn care; almost half of this impact would result from providing special and intensive hospital care for small and sick newborns. This webinar is a call to action for governments, development partners, healthcare professionals, parents and communities to invest, implement, inform and […]
Digital tools to improve quality of care: Maternity Foundation’s lessons from implementing the Safe Delivery App in Ethiopia
The Safe Delivery App, developed by the Maternity Foundation, has been used to build the skills, knowledge and confidence of birth attendants in Ethiopia since 2013. It is now part of the national curriculum, as well as taught as part of in-service and on-the-job training for birth attendants, and an integral part of the country’s […]