Network for Improving Quality of Care for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health

The Network for Improving Quality of Care for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health is a broad-based partnership of committed governments, implementing partners and funding agencies working to deliver the vision that ‘every pregnant woman, newborn and child receives good quality care. This vision is underpinned by the values of quality, equity and dignity. The Network aims to halve maternal and newborn deaths and stillbirths in participating health facilities by 2022 and improve patients’ experience of care. The network has 4 objectives; leadership, action, learning and accountability.  

MCA manages a learning platform and related products intend to facilitate the communication among countries and interested partners through assembling and sharing the country experiences and new knowledge generated in the process of implementation and scaling up quality of care, facilitating learning by providing a safe environment for sharing the data and the learning on what has worked or not in these efforts and, linking these outcomes to the processes of implementation research, policy development and resource allocation. Eleven countries are part of the Network initiative: Bangladesh, Côte d'Ivoire, Ethiopia, Ghana, India, Kenya, Malawi, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Tanzania, and Uganda.