Maternal and neonatal health, and sexual and reproductive health

Our expertise includes:

• providing long-term technical assistance to national maternal, neonatal and child health (MNCH) programmes
• increasing government capacity to develop country strategy, and implement and deliver MNCH programmes
• strengthening MNCH services by establishing functioning health systems including upgrading emergency obstetric services
• Reproductive health and MNCH service delivery
• raising community awareness about sexual and reproductive health (SRH), emergency transport schemes and advocacy activities
• monitoring and evaluating MNCH programmes including reviews of performance-based financing schemes
• providing short term assistance to strategies and evaluations of programmes for reproductive health commodity security programmes
• design, capacity building and evaluation of programmes addressing SRH and rights issues with young people
• design and evaluation of programmes to prevent unsafe abortion and improve access to safe abortion services

Examples:

• Pakistan: Technical Resource Facility to procure and manage technical assistance in support of the national MNCH programme
• Improving Maternal and Newborn Health in Low Resource Countries
• Nepal: Support to Safe Motherhood Programme
• Evaluation of the Partnership for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health (PMNCH) 
• Advancing Sexual and Reproductive Health in the New Aid Environment: Strengthening UNFPA and WHO Country Office Capacity
• Evaluation of EC/UNFPA Sexual and Reproductive Health Programme
• Strengthening the Linkages for Sexual and Reproductive Health, HIV and AIDS
• Partnerships for Transforming Health Systems (PATHS)
• Evaluation of the Safe Abortion Action Fund
• Independent Review of the Improving Maternal, Neonatal and Child Survival Project
• Operational Research: Reproductive Health Initiative for Youth in Asia (RHIYA)
   

For more examples of our work in this area search our projects and resources databases.