2010
• Contributed 3 new case studies to the Flex Fund family planning case study series (with ICF):
Improving Family Planning by Creating Community Service Provider Partnerships in
Guatemala (Save the Children)
Integrating Child spacing with Maternal Care in Timor-Leste – Health Alliance International;
Integrating Reproductive Health into Livelihood Programs in India-
International Youth Foundation
• Participated in the technical revision of the American College for Nurse Midwives Home-based Life Saving Skills (HBLSS) curriculum
• Hosted booth to disseminate community-based family planning case studies at the Women Deliver Conference
• Hosted workshop on maternal and child anemia (with Malaria and Nutrition Working Groups)
• Hosted state-of-the-art webinars on Introduction of Depo SubQ in UNIJECT (with PATH), and Fertility Awareness Methods (with Institute for Reproductive Health / Georgetown University)
• Contributed to “Implementing Best Practices” consortium collaboration and strategic planning
2009
In 2009 the SMRH Working Group partnered with the American College of Nurse Midwives to sponsor a 6 day training of trainers in Home Based Live Saving Skills in Tuscon, Arizona (July 27 – August 1, 2009). As a result of the meeting, a concept paper was developed to reformulate the curriculum and conduct further trainings in priority countries.
2008
In 2008, the SMRH Working Group co-sponsored, with the Child Survival and Technical Support Project (CSTS+), a two week Basics of Community-Based Family Planning Regional Workshop in Bamako, Mali, via the USAID Flexible Fund, which seeks to promote the development of, interest in, and quality of community-based family planning and reproductive health services worldwide. The workshop covered the basics of community-based family planning, program design, and monitoring and evaluation issues.
Representatives from the SMRH Working Group participated in the Women Deliver conference, which marked the 20th anniversary of the launch of global Safe Motherhood Initiative. The goals of the conference were to 1) provide a spotlight the critical connection between women's health, rights, education and poverty reduction, 2) encourage governments to integrate women's health and rights into national plans and strategies, 3) kick off a campaign to raise substantial additional resources from public and private sectors and, 4) advocate for the use data on the health of women, mothers, and babies as a key indicator of the health of nations.
The SMRH Working Group sponsored several technical updates, including Where there is no doctor: Home-based newborn and child care by CHWs with Abhay Bang (Search); promising post-partum interventions for mothers and newborns; harnessing the power of new HIV positive mothers as "Mentor Mothers" in prenatal units; and integrating family planning and HIV.
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