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Title: The White Ribbon Alliance for Safe Motherhood


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The White Ribbon Alliance for Safe Motherhood
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What is the White Ribbon Alliance for Safe
Motherhood?
  • An international coalition of individuals and
    organizations formed to promote increased public
    awareness and action of the need to make
    pregnancy and childbirth safe for all women and
    newborns in developing as well as developed
    countries.

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WRA is a global movement that can
  • Make MH a high profile issue on global political
    agendas
  • Get political leaders in WRA countries to pay
    attention
  • Multiply the financial resources for SM
  • Improve policies that can reduce MMRs

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WRA Approaches
  • Building and strengthening diverse and dynamic
    alliances
  • Sharing what works/promotion of best practices
  • Advocacy and social mobilization
  • Capacity Building
  • Enabling Safe Motherhood
    Champions

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WRA Membership
Membership is open broad-based to include
multiple sectors (i.e., health, religious
organizations, education, agriculture, nutrition,
transportation etc.) 1 Global Secretariat in
Washington DC 14 National Alliances 2,025 Members
in 91 countries Join us www.whiteribbonallian
ce.org
1 Global Secretariat in Washington DC 14 National
Alliances 2,025 Members in 91 countries
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Key WRA Results
  • Policy Improvements
  • Strengthened Global Leadership
  • National Alliance Capacity improved
  • Tools to Strengthen SM Initiatives
  • Increased Funding for Country Programs

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WRA IndiaSuccessfully advocated for policy
changes at National level
  • WRA India successfully advocated for policy
    changes enabling Auxiliary Nurse Midwives and
    Nurses to practice life saving skills and provide
    life saving drugs
  • Subsequently, the Ministry invited WRA India to
    develop evidence-based guidelines and protocols
    for their essential package of maternal and child
    health services, namely,
  • Guidelines for
  • Ante-natal Care and Skilled Birth Attendance by
    ANMs and LHVs
  • Pregnancy care and management of common obstetric
    complications by Medical Officers
  • operationalisation of 24 hour functioning PHC,
    under RCH- II.

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WRA IndiaAdvocacy for Policy Implementation in
India
  • WRAI is advocating for the implementation of safe
    motherhood policies in India by engaging
    parliamentarians, elected representatives and
    media representatives at national and state
    levels
  • Raising public awareness of RCH policies and
    programs by campaigning to disseminate
    information on entitlements
  • Monitoring the implementation by using checklists

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Tanzania Advocacy Accountability
  • Advocacy package on human resources for health
    developed by more than 19 partners. Play your
    part calls for action at all levels, including
    increase in health budget, incentives for
    providers, etc
  • Monitoring strategy developed to hold all parties
    accountable
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