Involvement of families, community leaders, health providers, traditional healers, and TBAs' should be included in planning and implementation of polices and programmes. Successful models for social change involves all the stakeholders. Long term commitments from a wide range of partners in the community, governments, local leaders, local organizations, public, private, international organizations, UN, and NGOs. Community education and mobilization. Prioritizing programs that involve communities in problem identification and problem solving through participatory methods.
Health is a child's right.
Obtaining and securing that right is our responsibility. As midwives there is a critical role to play in breaking the chains of inter-generational disadvantage, impoverishment and failed human development in the care provided before, during, and after birth. In your hands is delivered the next generation. In partnership, we in the NGO community join hands with you by embracing each child at critical moments in the life cycle. The partnership itself serves as an exciting model to test and inform partnership development, collaboration and network building.