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Major Partners and Donors

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Major Partners in Caring for Mothers

The Safe Motherhood Inter-Agency Group of which UNFPA is a co-sponsor, has published an electronic resource guide to give individuals and organisations responsible for safe motherhood programmes in developing countries access to information about the most effective and cost-effective strategies and how to carry them out.

Other co-sponsors of the Safe Motherhood Initiative  include:

• United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF)
• World Bank
• World Health Organization (WHO)

• Healthy Newborn Partnership (HNP)
• Impact Initiative for Maternal Mortality Programme Assessment
• International Confederation of Midwives (ICM) 
• International Federation of Gynaecology and Obstetrics (FIGO)
• International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF)
• Maternal and Neonatal Health (M&NH)
• Population Council
• Regional Prevention of Maternal Mortality Network (RPMM) –Africa
• Safe Motherhood Network of Nepal
• The White Ribbon Alliance for Safe Motherhood

 Major Donors:

• Columbia University’s Averting Maternal Death and Disability programme with funding from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation 
• United Nations Foundation

These links are for information purposes only and do not imply UNFPA endorsement of any material on other organizations' sites.

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