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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
- Women Deliver Initiative
Other key partners:
- 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.