Programme material

This brief highlights the contribution of the E4A-MamaYe programme in Nigeria towards improving maternal and newborn health outcomes. It highlights outcomes on accountability in the health sector by holding those in power responsible for their commitments to women‘s and girls‘ health. The programme worked with stakeholders to make complex health data accessible and actionable. With the vision that everyone can be an advocate with the power of data, read how E4A-MamaYe has evolved across several phases.

E4A-Mama Ye supports Bungoma County to understand the importance of the RMNCAH scorecard. Amy Jackson, Technical Officer at E4A-MamaYe, interviewed two members of the County Health Management Team on how this tool is used to inform decision making on health.

E4A-MamaYe is currently supporting grassroots civil society organizations in engaging in the annual government planning and budgeting processes.

E4A-MamaYe is currently supporting civil society coalitions to engage in the GFF across sub-Saharan Africa.

E4A-MamaYe recently published a practice briefing on our pioneering Health Budget Transparency Assessment (HBTA) tool in Malawi. This briefing summarises what health budget transparency is, why it’s important and how it has vitally contributed to the local government reform health agenda in three northern districts in Malawi.

Is scaling-up community maternal verbal autopsies a viable approach to inform action to reduce maternal mortality? Dr Sarah Barnett considers this question and shares her opinion with us.

We asked five experts in maternal, newborn and child health from around the world to share their knowledge and experiences in perinatal death surveillance and response. Here is what they told us.

We asked six experts from Malaysia, Ireland, Ethiopia and India about the importance of multi-disciplinary teams in maternal death surveillance and response (MDSR) systems. Read more about the insights they shared with us.