Major Partners in Caring for Mothers

The health of children and newborns is intimately connected to the well-being of mothers. In recognition of this, a global Partnership for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health was launched in 2005, uniting the Partnership for Safe Motherhood and Newborn Health with the Child Survival Partnership and the Healthy Newborn Partnership.  By their first major assembly in 2007, the partnership was an alliance of some 120 other organizations with similar goals.

Major collaborative initiatives

	Partnership for Maternal, Newborn & Child Health
	UNFPA Campaign to End Fistula
	Columbia University’s Averting Maternal Death and Disability
	Revised Distance Learning Course: Reducing Maternal Deaths

Other key partners:

• United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF)
• World Bank
• World Health Organization (WHO)

• Healthy Newborn Partnership (HNP)
• Impact Initiative for Maternal Mortality Programme Assessment
• International Confederation of Midwives (ICM) 
• International Federation of Gynaecology and Obstetrics (FIGO)
• International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF)
• Population Council
• The White Ribbon Alliance for Safe Motherhood

 Major Donors:

• Columbia University’s Averting Maternal Death and Disability programme with funding from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation 
• United Nations Foundation

Related Links:

Saving the lives of mothers is a huge and important challenge. It requires collaboration and knowledge-sharing among the many institutions and organizations that work in this arena. UNFPA has selected the following links as a way to make more accessible some of the excellent research, analysis and programming that has been done on reducing maternal mortality.*

• Averting Maternal Death and Disability -- Columbia University,
  Heilbrunn Center, Mailman School of Public Health
• The Alan Guttmacher Institute
• The Center for Reproductive Rights
• Red de Salud de las Mujeres Latinoamericanas y del Caribe (RSMLAC)
• Management Sciences for Health, Inc. (MSH)
• Family Health International (FHI) 
• International Women's Health Coalition 
• Johns Hopkins  JHPIEGO 
• Save the Children
• MotherCare

* These links are for information purposes only and do not imply UNFPA endorsement of any material on other organizations' sites.

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