The Improving Sexual, Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn, Child and Adolescent Health in Mozambique programme aims to equitably improve health outcomes for women and children by enhancing demand, use and quality of interventions in the country.

The three-year partnership, initiated in 2017, brings together UNFPA, UNICEF and WHO, in collaboration with government and other partners. It aims to train and motivate RMNCAH staff, including midwives, and bolster health facilities’ readiness to provide essential and emergency obstetric and neonatal care, including safe abortion care. At the same time, it works to making life-saving commodities more available, while building and improving the country’s health infrastructure, with a focus on water and sanitation in primary health care facilities that provide maternal care.

To strengthen demand for RMNCAH services, the programme works to engage communities, especially in the districts with the greatest need, and to boost information and governance systems. To foster an enabling environment, the project aims to advance an institutional reform agenda for the RMNCAH sector.