Evaluations of composite health interventions, such as those attempting to make motherhood safer, are by definition complex, but nevertheless regarded as essential to informing progress in global health. This paper introduces a series of reports which set out the basis of Family Care International's Skilled Care Initiative in rural Burkina Faso, go on to describe strategies and methods for eval...

BACKGROUND AND CONTEXT the 1997 Safe Motherhood Initiative effectively eliminated support for training traditional birth attendants (TBAs) in safe childbirth. Despite this, TBAs are still active in many countries such as Bangladesh, where 88% of deliveries occur at home. Renewed interest in community-based approaches and the urgent need to improve birth care has necessitated a re-examination of...

imum Initial Service Package (MISP) of interventions to be implemented at the onset of a humanitarian emergency; safe mothe rhood; sexual and gender-based violence; sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), including HIV and AIDS; family planning; other re p roductive health concerns, such as postabortion care and female genital mutilation; and adolescents. This article examines programs that have ...

ICM and FIGO are key partners in global Safe Motherhood efforts to reduce maternal death and disability in the world. Their mission statements share a common commitment in promoting the health, human rights and well-being of all women, most especially those at greatest risk for death and disability associated with childbearing. FIGO and ICM promote evidence-based, effective interventions that, ...

In the developing world, more than 1 billion people lack access to safe water. To address this problem, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention developed the Safe Water System (SWS), a household-based intervention with three elements: water disinfection, safe storage and behaviour change techniques, and tested these in three countries. In Zambia, social marketing (SM) was used to impl...