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International Confederation of Midwives
The State of the World’s Midwifery (SoWMy) 2021 demonstrates that investing in midwives could save millions of lives each year, improving national and local economies and contributing to women’s empowerment and gender equality.
ICM will foster a movement for midwifery, enabling and strengthening partnerships, advocacy, and communications for midwifery, with women’s voices at the center and ensure training and recruitment of midwives to increase the availability, accessibility, and quality of comprehensive sexual, reproductive, maternal, newborn, child and adolescent health (SRMNCAH) services with an added focus on abortion and contraception services.
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VisionICM will foster a movement for midwifery, enabling and strengthening partnerships, advocacy, and communications for midwifery, with women’s voices at the center, and ensure training and recruitment of midwives to increase the availability, accessibility, and quality of comprehensive services.
International Confederation of Midwives Commitment Narratives
- Increase the availability, accessibility, and quality of comprehensive sexual, reproductive, maternal, newborn, child, and adolescent health (SRMNCAH) services, with a focus on abortion and contraception services, by training and recruiting more midwives.
- Reduce maternal and neonatal mortality rates by fully resourcing midwife-led care by 2035, aiming to avert 67% of maternal deaths, 64% of newborn deaths, and 65% of stillbirths, resulting in approximately 4.3 million lives saved per year.
- Address the shortage of midwives globally by increasing investment in midwives and midwifery, including funding, education, working conditions, career progression, respect, status, and inclusion in decision-making.
- Accelerate progress on reducing maternal and neonatal mortality, advance sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR), and tackle barriers to women’s leadership in the global health workforce through the PUSH campaign.
- Increase the number of midwives in leadership positions and young midwife leaders to improve women’s SRHR, inform choices of contraceptives and family planning, and promote women’s sexual reproductive health and rights.
- Strengthen partnerships with national, regional, and global allies and stakeholders to advocate for the midwifery profession and improved access to SRHR services for women.
- Foster multi-stakeholder action coalitions in key countries to deliver concrete policy and funding wins for midwives and midwifery, building on existing efforts.
- Promote the inclusion of midwives in health leadership roles and expand SRHR services through the establishment of chief midwife roles in Ministries of Health and the development of improved national plans for family planning and SRHR access for women.
- Increase the number of midwives in leadership positions at health facilities and regulatory authority offices.
- Train young midwife leaders to enhance their capacity to advocate for women’s SRHR and contribute to improving maternal and newborn health.
- Support and finance programs and activities that focus on midwifery and SRHR for women, ensuring direct inclusion of women’s voices through collaboration with women’s groups in program development and service provision.
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