1. Agenda  – English

 

2. List of participants

List

3. Speeches

• Remarks by Charles Mwasambo, Chief of Health Services, Malawi
• Remarks by Chimwemwe Banda, Acting Secretary for Health, Malawi
• Remarks by Peter Kumpalume, Honourable Minister of Health, Malawi

  4. Presentations

  14 February, 2017

  Plenary

• Meeting objectives – Nabila Zaka, UNICEF
• Meeting information – Zainab Naimy, WHO
• Quality of care in the context of the Global Strategy for Women’s, Children’s and Adolescents Health – Anthony Costello, WHO
• Quality in the context of Universal Health Coverage – Shams Syed, WHO
• Quality of care for maternal and newvborn health: vision and framework – Bernadette Daelmans, WHO
• Health systems strengthening for quality and equity – Stefan Peterson, UNICEF
• Maternal and newborn health quality of care standards – Wilson Were, WHO
• Improvement interventions for quality of care – Özge Tunçalp,  WHO

  Parallel sessions: what makes quality of care work

  Systems support quality of care: financing and supply chains

• Consistent availability of life-saving medicines, supplies and equipment is indispensable to reducing maternal and neonatal deaths – Phillip Kamutenga, USAID
• Results-based financing and quality of care – Ziauddin Hyder, World Bank Group

  Working with all sectors to deliver quality of care

• Snapshot of WASH within the maternal and newborn health quality of care framework – Fabrice Fotso, UNICEF
• The role of WASH in healthcare facilities and linkages with quality of care – Arabella Hayter, WHO
• Mother-Baby Friendly Health Facility Initiative: Linking BFHI and maternal and newborn health quality improvement in Ghana – Priscilla Wobil, UNICEF
• Experiences with the Baby-friendly Hospital Initiative as a maternal and newborn health quality improvement initiative – Maaike Arts, UNICEF
• New directions for the Baby-Friendly Hospital Initiative – Laurence M. Grummer-Strawn, WHO

  Use of data for quality of care

• Data for quality of care
• Use of a real-time monitoring systems in sick newborn care units in India – Gagan Gupta, UNICEF
• Death surveillance and response: an essential intervention to improve quality – Matthews Mathai and Helen Smith, LSTM Centre for Maternal and Newborn Health

  Engaging communities for improved quality, equitable and dignified care

• Engaging & empowering people: Community-health service partnerships for quality – Shams Syed, WHO
• Monitoring: what women want – Sujoy Roy, the White Ribbon Alliance
• Quality, equity, dignity – Jerome Pfaffman, UNICEF
• Impact of health extension worker in Ethiopia – Daniel Gebre-Michael Burssa, Ministry of Health, Ethiopia
• Community approaches for delivering interventions in Bangladesh: successes and challenges – Shams El Arifeen, icddr,b
• Increasing the value of newborn life: changing norms through community engagement – Victoria Lwesha, Save the Children Malawi

  Business unusual: engaging the private sector and using innovative approaches to improve quality of care

• Private sector engagement: what have we learned? – Carlos Cuéllar, Abt Associates

  Building a competent and engaged health workforce; engaging professional associations to deliver on quality

• Lessons from the State of the World’s Midwifery 2014 – Petra ten Hoope-Bender
• Global frameworks and guidelines – Annette Mwansa Nkowane
• Human capacity in Ghana

  15 February, 2017

• Quality of care: towards a unified global framework for action – Margaret Kruk, Lancet Commission on Quality of Care
• The Quality of Care Network’s strategic objectives – Blerta Maliqi, WHO
• Implementation and learning – Pierre Barker, Institute for Healthcare Improvement

  16 February, 2017

• Country implementation example: Bangladesh
• Country implementation example: Malawi
• Monitoring and evaluation framework – Bennett Nemser, RMNCH Strategy and Coordination Team

5. Briefs

• Quality of Care in the context of universal health coverage
• Network for Improving Quality of Care for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health (Vision) – English/French
• WASH in health-care facilities: links with the Network for Improving Quality of Care for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health
• WHO standards or care to improve maternal and newborn quality of care in factilities (brief) English/French
• Implementation guidance: improvig quality of care for maternal, newborn and child health (working document)
• Monitoring and Evaluation Framework

6. Other resources

• Quality, Equity, Dignity video by the White Ribbon Alliance
• Word cloud beggining and end of meeting
• Challenges to improving quality of care (infographic)

7. Media coverage: visit the news page

  See the Communique