Programme |
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Donor |
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Core MMRD Activities |
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Averting Maternal Deaths and Disability (AMDD) |
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Gates Foundation |
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AMDD works to improve availability, quality and utilisation
of EmOC. The programme has three inter-linked strands: technical
assistance for EmOC, management capacity building and human
rights.
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Maternal and Neonatal Health Programme (MNH) |
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USAID |
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MNH provides TA and globally leadership to increase access
to and demand for appropriate maternal and neonatal health
care. The programme has three components: clinical services,
behaviour change interventions and policy development.
email:
mnh@jhpiego.net
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Making Pregnancy Safer Initiative (MSP) |
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WHO |
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MPS has been
launched to re-focus WHO's strategies in MMRD. The
focus is on evidence-based interventions, health systems
strengthening and identifying community level actions to
improve access to care.
email:
reproductivehealth@who.int |
Saving Newborn Lives Initiative (SNL) |
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Gates Foundation |
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SNL, through raising awareness and
advocacy aims to raise awareness of the importance of newborn
survival and encourage policy makers to support initiatives
that decrease newborn deaths.
email: intlprograms@savechildren.org |
Regional
Technical Assistance (RETA) |
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ADB |
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ADB and UNICEF
ROSA funded this RETA to undertake a situation analysis and
to identify priorities and strategies for Safe Motherhood
in seven priority countries in South/South East Asia and
the Pacific.
email: rosa@unicef.org |
Department for International Development (DFID) |
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Donor |
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The Department for International Development
is the British government department responsible for the
promotion of development and the reduction of poverty. The
central focus of DFID's
policy is a commitment to the internationally agreed targets
to halve the proportion of people living in extreme poverty
by 2015, together with the associated targets including basic
health care provision.
e
mail: enquiry@dfid.gov.uk |
Initiative for Maternal Mortality Programme
Assessment (IMMPAct) |
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Gates UNFPA, WHO |
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IMMPAct is a research programme
which aims to answer a range of questions including determining
the most effective and cost-effective safe motherhood intervention
packages; developing new and improved ways of measuring maternal
mortality; and strengthening capacity in developing countries
to measure maternal health outcomes and undertake continuing
evaluation.
email: immpact@abdn.ac.uk |
Inter Agency Group(IAG) |
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Various |
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IAG is an interagency
coalition which aims to contribute to improved maternal and
newborn survival through policy support and dissemination
of best practice.
email: info@safemotherhood.org |
Healthy Newborn Partnership (HNP) |
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SNL (Gates) |
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HNP is a
new international partnership that aims to generate global
attention and recognition for newborn health care by providing
a forum for information exchange and joint activities.
email:
hnp@dc.savechildren.org |
Latin American and Caribbean MMRD Initiative
(LAMM) |
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Largely USAID |
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LAMM is an inter-agency and country partnership, co-ordinated
by PAHO, which aims to stimulate and strengthen regional
and interagency co-operation in MMRD. It focuses on 11 countries
with high MMR to strengthen work at country level and facilitate
the sharing of lessons learnt.
e
mail: epsteind@paho.org |
Regional Prevention of Maternal Mortality
Network (RPMM) |
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AMDD (Gates) and World Bank RPMM |
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Is a partnership of 20
Sub-Saharan African country MMRD teams aims to improve the
availability, quality and utilisation of EmOC through capacity
building and mobilising local resources within member countries.
email: rpmm4ak@afriOnline.com.gh |
Partnership for Safe Motherhood and Newborn Health (PSMNH) |
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A proposed expanded partnership, which will absorb IAG and
involve a greater number of actors to promote the health
and well-being of pregnant women and newborns through
resource mobilisation, technical advancement, policy
advocacy and country level partnerships. |
White Ribbon Alliance (WRA) |
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Secretariat USAID |
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WRA is an
international coalition of (200) organisations and 20 country
WRA alliances designed to increase awareness of the need
to make childbirth safer. WRA raises awareness through building
alliances and acting as a catalyst for change.
email:
whiteribbonalliance@hotmail.com |
Do No Harm |
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Publication |
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Please add publication details |
Marie
Stopes International |
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Various |
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The Marie Stopes International
Global Partnership provides sexual and reproductive health
information and services to 3.6 million people worldwide
in 35 countries across Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, Latin
America and the Middle East. |
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Nepal Specific |
Programme |
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Donor |
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Core MMRD Activities |
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Nepal Safer Motherhood Project (NSMP) |
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DFID |
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e
mail: info@options.co.uk |
UNICEF
(Nepal) |
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UNICEF works through Nepal's Family
Health Division in selected districts to increase user demand
for and access to quality EOC and BEOC services.
email:
unicef@unicef.org |
Nepal Red Cross Society NRCS |
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NRCS provides safe blood
supplies and ambulance services in most of the districts
of Nepal |
NFHP/JHPIEGO |
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USAID |
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NFHP contributes to increased use of key
quality family planning, maternal and child health services.
email: nfhp@nfhp.org.np |
International Nepal Fellowship (INF) |
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INF runs district-based,
integrated programmes include: health and development initiatives
with marginalised communities; medical camps; and HIV/AIDS
education, testing, counseling and care. Team - can
we add in what they have done for NSMP? And any other work
in safe motherhood?
email: hq@inf.org.np |
United Mission to Nepal (UMN) |
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I checked their website - but
specific maternal health/training inputs are not clear. Please
add in how they have worked with NSMP - and other work
they do in safe motherhood.
email: marketing@umn.org.np |
National Health Training Centre (NHTC) |
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The HMGN institution,
responsible for planning, implementing, monitoring and evaluation
of a range of health related human resources in Nepal. |
Abortion Taskforce (ATF) - HMGNepal |
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The Abortion
Task Force was formed by the Family Health Division (FHD),
Department of Health Services (DHS) in February 2002 to plan
and implement the steps to move from legislation to action.
for the Implementation of Comprehensive Abortion Services.
It is steered by a Technical Committee (TCIC) nested within
FHD.
email: tcic.fhd@wlink.com.np |
Riders for Health |
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Various donors |
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Consultancy support to
NSMP to carried out a study on "improving access to
Obstetric Facilities; a study on exiting facilities" |
Intermediate Technology Development Group (ITDG) |
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Various donors |
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Can we put in something about how they have supported
us locally?No formal link with ITDG.
email: itdg@itdg.org.uk |
MIRA |
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Various donors |
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Mother Infant Research Activities
(MIRA), Nepal was established in 1992 to develop appropriate
and cost-effective interventions to improve mother and infant
health in poor communities. Projects undertaken include developing
cost-effective methods to reduce birth asphyxia, improve
the nutritional status of pregnant mothers and babies, and
changing behaviours through effective health promotion. MIRA
also assisted Nepal's Ministry of Health devise a national
policy for newborn care.
email: miraorg@wlink.com.np |
Safe Motherhood Network - (SMN) |
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The Safe Motherhood Network
was established in 1996 with a partnership between government,
NGOs, private sectors and individuals working towards saving
lives of women in Nepal. A forum of individuals and organisations
to work on safe motherhood advocacy. NSMP is currently supporting
SMN for central and regional level advocacy for shorter period.
email smnnepal@wlink.com.np |
Safe Motherhood Sub Committee(SMSC) |
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The Safe Motherhood
Sub-Committee (SMSC) was established in 2000, under the Reproductive
Health Coordination Committee (RHCC) of the Department of
Health Services (DoHS)
email: lkhanal@nfhp.org.np |
GTZ |
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German technical cooperation fund |
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Health sector support
programme to strengthen HMGN service delivery, especially
on reproductive health issues. |
SCF/US |
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Working on HIV/AIDS, piloting Newborn care initiatives
with gates fund.
email: himalfo@savechildren.org.np |
UNFPA |
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Supporting HMGN to implement reproductive health
activities - particularly family planning, HMIS. |
Sunaulo Parivar Nepal |
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MSI |
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Sunaulo Parivar Nepal/Marie Stopes
Services Private Ltd, the implementing agency and Marie Stopes
International's partner in Nepal, is a leading provider of
family planning and reproductive health services.
email: msi@msinepal.enet.com.np |
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