Schedule antenatal and postnatal contacts that meet current recommendations for risk screening.
Healthcare & Pharmaceutical Management
Maternal and Child Health Programme Management
Manage a maternal and child health programme end to end: schedule antenatal contacts, ready facilities for obstetric emergencies, apply IMCI protocols, and run maternal death surveillance and response.
🗓️Duration5 training days
📚Content4 modules · 8 sessions
🎓On completionAccredited attendance certificate
About the programme
Course Overview
Maternal and newborn deaths cluster around a small number of preventable failure points: late antenatal risk detection, unready facilities during obstetric emergencies, and gaps in postnatal and childhood illness follow-up. Programme managers need a method for closing each of these gaps rather than treating antenatal care, delivery and child health as separate services. This course opens with antenatal contact scheduling and risk screening, then moves to mapping facility readiness against emergency obstetric and newborn care signal functions and building referral protocols that work under real transport and staffing constraints. Newborn and child health sessions cover essential newborn care, small and sick newborn units, and Integrated Management of Childhood Illness at primary care level. Nutrition and community sessions address breastfeeding support, micronutrient programmes and community health worker deployment. The course closes with quality and accountability: drafting respectful maternity care standards and running a maternal and perinatal death surveillance and response process that turns each review into a corrective action plan rather than a filed report. Exercises use anonymised facility and mortality review data throughout.
Expected Learning Outcomes
Map facility readiness against emergency obstetric and newborn care signal functions and referral protocols.
Apply Integrated Management of Childhood Illness algorithms to classify and treat common paediatric conditions.
Design nutrition and growth monitoring interventions for pregnant women and young children.
Deploy a community health worker platform with defined caseloads, supervision and referral pathways.
Draft respectful maternity care standards and a facility quality of care review process.
Operate a maternal and perinatal death surveillance and response process that generates corrective action.
Who Should Attend
Maternal, newborn and child health programme managers in ministries of health or NGOs.
District health officers overseeing antenatal, delivery and postnatal service networks.
Facility quality improvement leads responsible for maternity and newborn care standards.
Community health programme coordinators supervising household-level outreach.
Paediatric and neonatal service planners designing referral and small-and-sick-newborn services.
Monitoring and evaluation officers tracking maternal and child health indicators.
Course Modules
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01Antenatal and Intrapartum Care Design
2 sessions · 8 points
Session 1Antenatal Care Contact Scheduling and Risk Screening
- Schedule antenatal contacts against a recognised multi-contact model and adapt timing for high-risk pregnancies.
- Screen for pre-eclampsia, anaemia and gestational diabetes using standard point-of-care protocols.
- Design a birth preparedness and complication readiness plan with each woman before the third trimester.
- Track antenatal attendance and loss-to-follow-up rates by facility to target outreach.
Session 2Skilled Birth Attendance and Emergency Obstetric Care
- Map facility readiness against recognised emergency obstetric and newborn care signal functions.
- Design a referral protocol with transport, communication and receiving-facility notification steps.
- Establish a partograph-based labour monitoring practice to detect prolonged or obstructed labour early.
- Coordinate blood bank and emergency drug supply availability with projected caseload.
02Newborn and Child Health Services
2 sessions · 8 points
Session 1Essential Newborn Care and Small and Sick Newborn Services
- Implement essential newborn care practices, including thermal care, early breastfeeding and cord care.
- Design a small and sick newborn care unit with defined admission and kangaroo mother care criteria.
- Establish a newborn danger sign recognition and referral pathway for community and facility staff.
- Audit newborn resuscitation readiness and staff competency using simulation-based assessment.
Session 2Integrated Management of Childhood Illness at Primary Care Level
- Apply Integrated Management of Childhood Illness algorithms to classify and treat common paediatric conditions.
- Train primary care and community staff in danger sign recognition and appropriate referral timing.
- Coordinate supply of essential paediatric medicines against projected case-load.
- Monitor case management quality through periodic clinical observation and record review.
03Nutrition, Growth and Community Platforms
2 sessions · 8 points
Session 1Infant and Young Child Nutrition Programming
- Design exclusive breastfeeding support interventions, including peer counselling and workplace protection.
- Plan micronutrient supplementation and fortification programmes for pregnant women and young children.
- Establish growth monitoring and promotion services with defined referral thresholds for malnutrition.
- Coordinate community-based management of acute malnutrition with facility-based severe case referral.
Session 2Community Health Worker Platforms and Household Outreach
- Design a community health worker deployment plan with defined household caseloads and supervision ratios.
- Establish a household registration and pregnancy tracking system for community-level follow-up.
- Train community health workers in danger sign counselling and timely referral for mothers and newborns.
- Evaluate community platform performance using coverage, referral completion and satisfaction indicators.
04Quality, Accountability and Mortality Reduction
2 sessions · 8 points
Session 1Respectful, Quality Maternity Care Standards
- Draft respectful maternity care standards that address dignity, consent and mistreatment prevention.
- Establish a facility-based quality of care committee that reviews adverse events and near misses.
- Train birth attendants in communication practices that support informed choice during labour and birth.
- Monitor patient experience data alongside clinical outcome indicators at facility level.
Session 2Maternal and Perinatal Death Surveillance and Response
- Establish a maternal and perinatal death surveillance and response committee with defined review protocols.
- Classify contributing factors using a three-delays framework to identify systemic weaknesses.
- Translate death review findings into facility and district-level corrective action plans.
- Report aggregated mortality review findings to national maternal health monitoring systems.
What the participant receives
4 course modules
A structured syllabus
8 training sessions
across 5 days
32 detailed points
Applied, detailed content
Accredited attendance certificate
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