Awareness, Mobilization and Action for Safe Motherhood: A Field Guide

Excerpt from Purpose of This Field Guide

This Field Guide is intended to provide organizations working in developing countries with practical guidance on how they can be active and involved in the Safe Motherhood Initiative and participate in the White Ribbon Alliance. Both international NGOs with worldwide affiliates and indigenous NGOs in developing countries will find information on how they can contribute to this global effort on the national and local levels. Readers are encouraged to obtain and read the Safe Motherhood Fact Sheets to learn more about safe motherhood issues. The Field Guide does not include technical information on how to design, implement, and evaluate safe motherhood program interventions; it does offer suggestions for bringing a wide range of people and organizations together for awareness and action around the theme of safe motherhood.

Organizations should adapt the strategies and activities in this guidebook to the specific social, cultural, and economic contexts in which they work. Readers are encouraged to adapt, reproduce, translate, and use parts or all of Awareness, Mobilization, and Action for Safe Motherhood without permission, provided the parts are distributed free or at cost (not for profit) and credit is given tothe White Ribbon Alliance for Safe Motherhood, NGO Networks for Health, the American Association for World Health, and FCI/IAG.