Bill and Melinda Gates: Maternal, Neonatal and Child Health Commodities
Gathering Evidence and Finding Solutions for Scaling up Access for MNCH Products
Improving access to, and quality of, maternal and newborn care.
Options supports countries around the world to make life-saving improvements to maternal, newborn, child and adolescent health.
We support our partners to create an enabling environment for safe motherhood, newborn health and adolescent empowerment programmes that improve access to services and quality of care. Drawing on the latest global evidence and standards, we help partners continually revisit, update and implement programmes across the continuum of care in response to emerging contextual challenges. In this way we support governments to develop visionary strategies and policies, introduce innovative health financing solutions and embed new ways of improving service quality.
We empower local civil society organisations to hold decision-makers to account. We nurture local partnerships, coalitions and campaigns to build and strengthen legitimate demands for quality maternal and newborn health services and women’s reproductive health rights. We provide consultative mechanisms and thought partnership to connect global goals and local needs.
We analyse evidence and translate data into formats that makes data usable. This allows us to help decision-making processes within government and support advocacy and accountability mechanisms among civil society. We also make the best use of emerging technology to innovate interactive tools that deliver up-to-date information.
We support training and mentorship on clinical practices to build grassroots-level capacity, deliver high quality maternity services, strengthen emergency care, provide reliable contraception, prevent unwanted pregnancies and undertake safe abortion care.
Gathering Evidence and Finding Solutions for Scaling up Access for MNCH Products
Achievements and lessons from Kwale, Mombasa, Kericho and Nandi counties
A tool that enables users to keep track of actions emerging from MPDSR Committee meetings.
Rebekah McKay-Smith
Deputy Regional Lead, WISH
Global Health Associate
Team Leader, NHSSP
Global Health Strategist
Associate
A group of NHSSP technical experts in Nepal, with Alison Dembo-Rath