Strengthening Community-based Health Care System through Community Midwives Plus Project in Sindh
A Sindh-based initiative strengthening community midwives as providers of family planning, postpartum family planning, antenatal care, and other reproductive health services.
Project Overview
About the project
Building on an earlier pilot in Tando Allah Yar, the project expanded a strengthened community-midwife model to Matiari and Tando Muhammad Khan. Interventions included family planning and postpartum family planning training, IUCD and PPIUCD skills, contraceptive supplies, equipment, supportive supervision, digital monitoring, emergency preparedness, and community-level Group Antenatal Care.
Resources
Project Resources
Research Report
Community Midwives Plus Project - Full Report
This report documents the Community Midwives Plus Project in Sindh, which strengthened the capacity of community midwives in Matiari and Tando Muhammad Khan to provide family planning and postpartum family planning services through training, contraceptive supply, equipment, supportive supervision, digital monitoring, and the introduction of Group Antenatal Care at community level.
Brief
Community Midwives Plus Project Brief
This research brief presents overall findings from the Community Midwives Plus Project in Sindh. It describes the scale-up of a tested community-midwife engagement model in Matiari and Tando Muhammad Khan and highlights improvements in service readiness, family planning provision, contraceptive choice, and community-level access.
Brief
Community Midwives Plus GANC Brief
This research brief presents findings from the introduction of Group Antenatal Care at community level through community midwives in Sindh. The model was introduced for the first time in Pakistan with a particular focus on postpartum family planning counseling and community-based antenatal care.