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Safe Motherhood &
Reproductive Health
Working Group

Vision: The SMRH Working Group supports NGOs to engage communities for better sexual and reproductive health for all by sharing knowledge resources and promoting the most up-to-date, evidence-based practices.

2007 Working Group Highlights

  • The SMRH working group participated in the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) Latin American and Caribbean Neonatal Strategy Workshop in August 2007. The IMCI and SMRH working groups contributed a community-based perspective to the PAHO neonatal strategy and operational guidance-a process developed through participation in several events over the past 3 years.

  • Conducted a workshop on estimating costs of scaling-up with the Frontiers Project to help NGOs explore the methodologies used to estimate the costs of taking innovations to a regional or national scale. Participants gained a better understanding that scaling up is not a simple multiplier of pilot study costs.

  • Conducted an operations research workshop for HQ managers, with the Population Council's Frontiers in Reproductive Health Program. Operations research is the use of systematic research techniques to improve service delivery and help managers make programmatic decisions. The workshop aimed to assist program decision-makers and managers to play an active role in guiding programmatic research.

  • Co-sponsored, with the Child Survival and Technical Support Project (CSTS+), a two week Basics of Community-Based Family Planning Regional Workshop in Kampala, Uganda, via the USAID Flexible Fund, which seeks to promote the development of, interest in, and quality of community-based family planning and reproductive health services worldwide. The workshop covered the basics of community-based family planning, program design, and monitoring and evaluation issues. One participating organization, Pathfinder, has already said they plan to replicate the training in Bangladesh as part of a program with local NGOs to train general practice health care workers.

  • Also in conjunction with USAID's Flex Fund, hosted a training session on family planning statutory and policy requirements in March 2007. This session provided an overview of the requirements related to family planning and HIV/AIDS that apply to activities receiving USAID support. Legislation and policies covered include the Tiahrt Amendment; the Mexico City Policy; and the U.S. Leadership Against HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria Act.

  • In collaboration with the White Ribbon Alliance and the Prevention of Postpartum Hemorrhage Initiative (POPPHI), sponsored updates on the latest developments on postpartum hemorrhage prevention.

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