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MOMENTUM Country and Global Leadership, funded by the United States Government, is a global mechanism that saves lives and improves access to quality, integrated health services by distributing life-saving commodities, medicines, and vaccines, and providing critical health care services for pregnant mothers and children under five. The project provides safe childbirth for mothers and babies, vaccinates children, treats deadly illnesses and malnutrition, and controls disease outbreaks.

The project has partnered with local entities—including ministries of health, the private sector, and faith-based organizations—in more than 20 countries to deliver this life-saving targeted assistance, accelerating progress and strengthening health institutions’ abilities to provide health services into the future. By saving women, babies, and children, preventing malnutrition, and addressing health security, MOMENTUM Country and Global Leadership not only creates goodwill for the United States but makes America safer, stronger, and more prosperous.

Key Resources

MPDSR CAPACITY BUILDING PACKAGE

Maternal and Perinatal Death Surveillance and Response (MPDSR) Capacity Building Package

MOMENTUM Country and Global Leadership, the World Health Organization, UNFPA, and UNICEF developed this integrated Maternal and Perinatal Death Surveillance and Response (MPDSR) Capacity Building Package that can be used to support country capacity for MPDSR through virtual means. Capacity building materials for both maternal and perinatal mortality surveillance have been combined into one package, which also includes updated guidance and COVID-19 modules.

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LABOR CARE GUIDE LEARNING RESOURCE PACKAGE

To improve the quality of care during labour and childbirth.

To improve the quality of care during labour and childbirth according to WHO recommendations, the WHO developed a Labour Care Guide (LCG) and accompanying User’s Manual. This Learning Resource Package developed by MOMENTUM Country and Global Leadership and Laerdal Global Health supports the training of providers to complete and interpret the LCG.

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How to use this package.

ADAPTING NEWBORN CARE GLOBAL STANDARDS TO LOCAL CONTEXTS

Contextualizing the World Health Organization’s Standards for improving the quality of care for small and sick newborns in health facilities in Nepal, Nigeria, and Kenya

MOMENTUM Country and Global Leadership facilitated the country-level adaptation of the WHO’s global guidance on Standards for Improving the Quality of Care for Small and Sick Newborns in Health Facilities, which included a comprehensive desk review of relevant national policies and guidelines. This brief outlines the foundational steps each country took to compare existing policies and guidelines with the WHO standards.

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IMPROVING NUTRITION QUALITY OF CARE

For Maternal, Newborn, Child, and Adolescent Health

This brief provides an overview of the World Health Organization’s Quality of Care (QoC) standards for maternal, newborn, child, and adolescent health (MNCAH) services with a focus on nutrition-related standards, and opportunities to apply these standards to improve quality of nutrition and MNCAH services.

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Midwife Masri in front of the Batakte Community Health Center’s management and administration offices. Photo by Agusto RH Dominggo Bunga.

For Midwife Masri, an Unexpected Exam Turns into a Career Calling

Masri Ndoen’s path to becoming a midwife was anything but expected. Cajoled by her friends to tag along as they took the entry exam for nursing school, Masri decided to take the test herself—and was the only one among her friends to pass it. That paved the way for a career in midwifery that would eventually lead her to a position managing a community health care system.

In six countries with focused clinical support, MOMENTUM Country and Global Leadership has reached 8.1 million women, newborns, and children under five with lifesaving services.

MOMENTUM Country and Global Leadership is funded through the United States Government under the terms of the Cooperative Agreement #7200AA20CA00002, led by Jhpiego and partners. The contents are the responsibility of MOMENTUM Country and Global Leadership and do not necessarily reflect the views of the United States Government.