United Nations Population Fund

 This programme, jointly executed by UNFPA and the International Confederation of Midwives (ICM) and jointly funded by Sweden, The Netherlands and UNFPA, aims at building national capacity in low-resource countries to increase skilled attendance at all births by scaling up the capacity of midwives. It will contribute to the achievement of two of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs): improving maternal health (MDG 5) and reducing neonatal mortality (MDG 4).  Read more...

The Partnership is a global health partnership launched in September 2005 and joins the maternal, newborn and child health (MNCH) communities into an alliance of some 180 members to ensure that all women, infants and children not only remain healthy, but thrive.

ICM continued its leadership role on the interim Steering Committee and co- planned a series of Health Care Professional Associations’ workshops in four regions; English speaking Africa, French Speaking Africa, Asia and Latin America. ICM participated in the first of these workshops to strengthen collaboration amongst health care professionals in order to contribute effectively to the achievement of Millennium Development Goals 4 and 5 in these countries. It was held in Blantyre, Malawi in November 2007.  The second of these workshops was held in March 2008 in Burkina Faso. Read more...

Updated: 26-06-2008

Sign on to G8 letter

On the 1^st- 5^th June the International Confederation of Midwives held its Triennial Congress in Glasgow. There were nearly 3000 midwives from all over the world in attendance including many member organizations and individuals of the WRA. Our patron, Mrs. Sarah Brown, gave a moving speech which was very well received, as were the remarks from WRA India Coordinator Aparajita Gogoi.

Read Sarah Brown’s speech here: 

Updated: 20.06.08

During 2007 WHO completed the development of Global Standards for Initial Nursing and Midwifery Education in response to the World Health Assembly’s call to strengthen the nursing and midwifery profession.  ICM joined other stakeholders, and over a period of 3 years worked collaboratively to implement strategic directions for strengthening nursing and midwifery.  The Global Standards are aimed at professionals for use as a benchmark for enhancing the education of nurses and midwives.  Nursing and midwifery definitions formed the basis of the new standards which will be launched by WHO in 2008.

Please click here to read the Making Pregnancy Safer report

International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics

In 2007 ICM and FIGO worked to produce joint statements on topics of mutual concern 

as well as collaborating on a project with POPPHI.  This will continue into 2008.