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Changing gender norms to improve maternal and child health

A gender lens in research design and implementation helps to improve health and empower women.
Published date
Friday, November 13, 2020 - 11:00
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Champions of evidence play a pivotal role in bridging research-to-policy gap

Communicating research evidence to key stakeholders is improving maternal and child health policies.
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Maternal health research concerns men too

Understanding the influences affecting women and men’s behaviour is paramount to improving maternal and child health.
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Giving girls and women the power to decide

Addressing Africa’s unmet need for family planning by intensifying sexual and reproductive and adolescent health research.
Research in Action

HEALTH MATERNAL AND CHILD HEALTH ADOLESCENT HEALTH FAMILY PLANNING

A community approach for improving maternal health

Community knowledge, commitment, and resources are shaping a system-wide approach to tackle maternal and newborn mortality in Mozambique.
Published date
Tuesday, March 27, 2018 - 15:30
Research in Action

MATERNAL AND CHILD HEALTH CHILD HEALTH WOMEN'S HEALTH BIRTH MATERNAL HEALTH SERVICES Gender

Innovating for Maternal and Child Health in Africa teams share early findings in Dakar

As the seven-year Innovating for Maternal and Child Health in Africa (IMCHA) program reached its halfway mark, 80 African and Canadian experts gathered in Dakar, Senegal, from April 24-27, 2017 to discuss the program’s emerging findings and to hone their research and policy engagement skills.
Published date
Friday, September 29, 2017 - 11:00
Research in Action

HEALTH Health systems IMMUNIZATION Gender

Abuja workshop calls for evidence-based policies to improve maternal and child health in Nigeria

Innovative interventions to improve maternal and child health in Nigeria were the focus of a workshop in Abuja on September 21, 2016. Nigeria has the second highest absolute number of maternal deaths and perinatal deaths in the world, contributing to approximately 15% of all maternal deaths worldwide.
Published date
Monday, October 17, 2016 - 11:00
Research in Action

Gender

Major funding announcement is made as Minister Bibeau and Parliamentary Secretary Gould visit IDRC projects in sub-Saharan Africa

The Honourable Marie-Claude Bibeau, Canada’s Minister of International Development and La Francophonie, announced major funding for an IDRC grantee during her August visit to West Africa.
Research in Action

MATERNAL AND CHILD HEALTH

Safe delivery

How an organization is using the law to improve maternal and child health in Uganda.
Published date
Friday, December 18, 2015 - 09:30