The Network for Improving Quality of Care for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health and the Child Health Task Force's Quality of Care subgroup hosted a webinar to review the nutrition-specific components of the WHO standards for improving quality of facility-based MNCH care. The Network and associated WHO standards for improving quality of maternal and newborn care, care of children and young adolescents and care of small and sick newborns offers an important platform for improving nutrition care as an integral component of high-quality MNCH services. This webinar featured a technical brief recently published by USAID's MOMENTUM Country and Global Leadership project that highlights opportunities to apply these standards to improve MNCH nutrition services. The webinar  included a presentation on nutrition quality of care activities in Ethiopia by representatives of the Ethiopian Ministry of Health and the USAID Growth through Nutrition project.

This webinar was co-hosted by the Network for Improving the Quality of Maternal, Newborn and Child Health and the Quality of Care subgroup of the Child Health Task Force.

Photo credit: Karen Kasmauski/MCSP, Yifag Kebele, Amhara, Ethiopia.

On International Women's Day 2022, March 8, 2022, the Department of Maternal, Newborn, Child and Adolescent Health and Ageing, WHO Geneva and the Network for Improving the Quality of Maternal, Newborn and Child Health hosted a webinar to share Sierra Leone’s experience in addressing preventable maternal and perinatal deaths during pregnancy and childbirth by implementing the MPDSR system.

Speakers shared their experiences, and actions taken in order to have a functioning MPDSR system also serving as a monitoring tool to lower  inequalities. A panel comprised of representatives from Ministry of Health and Sanitation, Sierra Leone discussed the challenges faced, solutions sought and future opportunities for Maternal and Perinatal Death Surveillance and Response (MPDSR) to improve maternal and neonatal health outcomes.

This webinar was hosted by the Department of Maternal, Newborn, Child and Adolescent Health and Ageing, WHO Geneva and the Network for Improving the Quality of Maternal, Newborn and Child Health.