Investing in Midwives and Others with Midwifery Skills Saving the Lives of Mothers and Newborns and Improving their Health Author: UNFPA No. of pages: 31 Publication date: 2008 Languages: English, Spanish, French

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This guidance note is designed for countries seeking to scale up midwifery services, especially at the community level. It is part of a UNFPA-ICM (International Confederation of Midwives) Joint Initiative to support the call for a Decade of Action for Human Resources for Health made at World Health Assembly in 2006. This note outlines in detail the action required by policy-makers and programme managers to effect change at country level and scale up midwifery capacity, specifically in poor and hard-to-reach areas. Technical guidelines for operationalizing the guidance note to come.

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