Women Centered Care
Around the world-in both industrialized and low- and middle-income countries- too many women seeking healthcare face undignified conditions, a lack of services and resources, and poor quality of care. Health care worker performance is often hindered by sub-optimal care environments, including poor infrastructure, limited supplies, heavy workloads and insufficient support. To confront these issues, ECSA-HC secretariat and partners collaborate to produce and share evidence to advance respectful high-quality care and address obstetric emergencies, among other issues. See “resources” for more information and materials.
RESOURCES
OTHER RESOURCES
- A rapid review of available evidence to inform indicators for routine monitoring and evaluation of respectful maternal care
- A landscaping review of interventions to promote respectful maternal care in Africa: Opportunities to advance innovation and accountability
- Strengthening and Sustaining RMNCAH Systems in Sub-Saharan Africa Webinar Series
- Strengthening Maternal Mental Health in Special Populations: Implementation Challenges and Opportunities
- Advancements in Postpartum Hemorrhage Care Webinar Series
- Findings from a Scoping Review and Crowdsourcing of RMC Interventions and Implementation Evidence
- Provider Well-Being and Respectful Maternity Care in Malawi
- Enhancing Respectful Care for Newborns & Young Children: Perspectives from Kenya & Uganda
- Optimizing Approaches for Including Self-Injection in the Suite of Family Planning Options (ICAN) Project
- Strengthening Systems to Avert Maternal Death
- Development and Validation of a Routine Respectful Maternity Care Measurement Tool: Respectful Maternity Care Innovation Case Study
- Learning from Respectful and Compassionate Care Guidelines Dissemination: Respectful Maternity Care Innovation Case Study
- What Does It Take to Scale and Sustain Birth Companionship in Tanzania? Respectful Maternity Care Innovation Case Study
- Maternal and Child Health Care in the Face of the COVID-19 Epidemic in Madagascar: Challenges and Adaptations for Continuity of Care
- Mental Health and Psychosocial Support Knowledge Hub
- Intervention Evidence Database
- University of California, San Francisco Institute for Global Health Sciences / Global Maternal, Newborn, and Child Health Research Group
- Africa Academy for Public Health
- Universidad de los Andes IMAGINA Innovation Hub
RMC achievements
In 2017, the Africa Academy for Public Health and University of California, San Francisco, presented findings from implementation research detailing manifestations of disrespect, abuse and promising approaches for advancing Respectful Maternal Care (RMC). The BPF concluded with ECSA-HC’s DJCC recommending RMC as a priority action area. This positioned RMC as a prominent topic at the Health Ministers Conference, which passed a set of resolutions, including one specifically on RMC