AFRO-NETS> Best Practices Field Guide on Safe Motherhood

["Dr. Aparajita Gogoi" <aparajitagogoi@vsnl.net>]

Best Practices Field Guide on Safe Motherhood
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Request for submissions

Background
Each year around the world, over half a million women die of preg-
nancy related causes. In response, The White Ribbon Alliance for Safe 
Motherhood was formed to raise awareness of the need to make preg-
nancy and childbirth safe for all women and their newborns. The White 
Ribbon Alliance is currently in 19 countries uniting individuals, or-
ganizations, and communities who are working to increase public 
awareness about this needless loss of life and to promote safe moth-
erhood. The white ribbon is dedicated to the memory of all women who 
have died in pregnancy and childbirth. 

Every five minutes one woman in India dies from complications related 
to pregnancy and childbirth. This adds up to over 100,000 women every 
year. Given that this figure is among the highest number of maternal 
deaths worldwide, it was appropriate that the White Ribbon Alliance 
Movement was launched in India in November 1999. The White Ribbon Al-
liance for Safe Motherhood of India (WRAI) unites individuals, or-
ganizations and communities who are committed towards increasing pub-
lic awareness on how to prevent maternal mortality and promote Safe 
Motherhood. 

The goals of the White Ribbon Alliance of India are to raise aware-
ness among citizens, international NGOs, national NGOs and govern-
ments of the need to ensure safe pregnancy and childbirth; build al-
liances through wide-ranging, intersectoral partnerships with non-
traditional groups, recognizing that a large and united effort is 
critical to effect change and act as a catalyst for action to address 
the tragedy of maternal deaths and sustain the current Safe Mother-
hood effort. Today, the national alliance has 54 members from all 
over the country and 5 states have initiated state level White Ribbon 
Alliances.

The White Ribbon Alliance of India (WRAI) has over the last two years 
felt the need to identify and compile best practices in the field of 
Safe Motherhood in India and globally. Best practice in Safe Mother-
hood has been defined as evidence based Safe Motherhood interven-
tions, which have been proven successful and have been replicated or 
can be replicated. Currently, WRAI is in the process of developing a 
best practices field guide. The projected audience of the field guide 
is NGOs, government, donor agencies and individuals working on Safe 
Motherhood issues all over the world. This field guide will be dis-
tributed worldwide through the White Ribbon Alliance members and 
partners in different countries.


The objectives of the Best Practices field guide are:

* To compile best practices in Safe Motherhood, focusing on the re-
  duction of maternal mortality 
* To develop a user friendly guidebook comprising of proven safe 
  motherhood interventions with case studies and how to guidelines 
  (i.e., home based life saving skills, birth preparedness, birth at-
  tendance, reducing delays, effective ante natal care, post partum 
  care, post abortion care and handling of complications, integrating 
  local models, managing obstetric emergencies, obstetric first aid, 
  setting up of emergency obstetric fund, making blood available, es-
  tablishment of blood banks, making hospitals mother-friendly, making 
  referrals more effective, community mobilization for safe motherhood, 
  Maternal Death Audits, male involvement, PMTCT, etc.)

If you or your organization has done any work on the theme areas, 
please send us an article/write up on the intervention or experience 
in 2,000-4,000 words giving us information on your organization, the 
safe motherhood intervention/research, the impact/findings and les-
sons learned. Please give specific guidelines on "how to? implement.

Schedule

Authors are invited to submitted papers on the format attached by 
April 30, 2002. A panel will be constituted to select submissions 
that are appropriate for the field guide and contact the per-
son/organization responsible if additional material is required. 

The expected publication date of publication of the field guide is 
September 2002.

Please send your submissions by email or post to:

Dr. Aparajita Gogoi
Coordinator, White Ribbon Alliance for Safe Motherhood/India
C/O CEDPA, 50M, Shanti Path, Gate No. 3 Niti Marg, Chanakyapuri
New Delhi-110021, India
Tel: +92-11-688-6813/467-2154
Fax: +91-11-688-5850
mailto:aparajitagogoi@vsnl.net


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Best Practice Submission Form

1. Mention the topic area of Safe Motherhood that the intervention/ 
   practice fits into: 
2. Please give the information with the following headings (in 2,000-
   4,000 words) (Please attach or send us any documents that will help 
   understanding the Safe Motherhood intervention better)

* Name of project
* State/Country where the intervention was carried out
* Date of beginning and end of project
* Who implemented the intervention?
* Who funded the intervention?
* What were the Objectives of the Safe Motherhood Intervention?
* Give in brief the background/ context in which the intervention 
  was carried out
* A description of how the intervention/project carried out
* What were the impacts/ outcomes /outputs/measurable results of the 
  intervention?
* What were the findings or evaluation results/lessons learned/keys 
  to success/ challenges encountered?
* What are the guidelines for replication of the intervention? (The 
  How-to?s)
* Contact Person?s Name, Contact Information, Mailing address, 
  Phone, fax, 
* E-mail, website, etc.

Please send your submissions by email or post to:
Dr. Aparajita Gogoi
Coordinator, White Ribbon Alliance for Safe Motherhood/India
C/O CEDPA, 50M, Shanti Path, Gate No. 3 Niti Marg
New Delhi-110021, India
Tel: +92-11-688-6813/467-2154
Fax: +91-11-688-5850
mailto:aparajitagogoi@vsnl.net

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