Knowledge for safer births

Education and training play a crucial role. When midwives are given the opportunity to develop their knowledge and strengthen their professional security, positive ripple effects are created. Women receive safer and more reliable care and midwives are strengthened in their professional role. This makes it easier for them to do their work even in difficult circumstances.

The world needs 900,000 more midwives. Midwives have unique opportunities to provide essential services to women and newborns even in the most difficult humanitarian, unstable and conflict-affected environments.

A midwife examines a pregnant woman with a portable ultrasound machine