“How to Mobilize Communities for Improved Maternal and Newborn Health” guide now available
8 June 2009
ACCESS is proud to announce the publication of How to Mobilize Communities for Improved Maternal and Newborn Health, a "how to" guide containing all of the essential instructions for carrying out a community mobilization (CM) initiative to improve the health of pregnant women and newborns. The guide is intended for individuals who will work with communities as they mobilize to improve maternal and newborn health, but will also be useful for anyone who seeks to better understand the steps and resources inherent in engaging communities to organize, explore, plan, act and evaluate collective action to achieve health and social change.
The guide complements and builds upon an earlier ACCESS publication, Demystifying Community Mobilization, which presents evidence from peer review literature of CM as an effective strategy for addressing high maternal and newborn mortality. The follow on guide has two main parts: Chapter One is a general overview of maternal and newborn health; and Chapters Two through Seven take the reader step-by-step through the CM process, following the phases of the community action cycle. The Annex contains a series of 19 tools that readers will find useful for carrying out various steps described in the guide.
About ACCESS
The ACCESS Program is the U.S. Agency for International Development’s global program to improve maternal and newborn health. The ACCESS Program works to expand coverage, access and use of key maternal and newborn health services across a continuum of care from the household to the hospital—with the aim of making quality health services accessible for women and newborns.
Jhpiego implements the program in partnership with Save the Children, Constella Futures, the Academy for Educational Development, the American College of Nurse-Midwives and IMA World Health.
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