Why Work with Partners?

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Why Work with Partners?

• Deborah Maine
• Director, AMDD
• Mailman School of Public Health
• Columbia University

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AMDD

• AVERTING MATERNAL
• DEATH DISABILITY
• PROGRAM

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AMDD

• Began May 1999
• Funded by
• The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
• Budget 50 million over 5 years

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Our Goal

• Improve the
• availability, quality
• utilization of EmOC
• Emergency Obstetric Care

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The Crucial Fact

• Once a woman is pregnant
• most serious obstetric complications
• cannot be predicted or prevented,
• but they can be treated.

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Therefore,

• All pregnant women
• need access to
• emergency obstetric care

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AMDD Strategy

• Work through project partners
• Involve technical partners
• Promote replication synergy

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AMDD Project Partners

• UNICEF
• UNFPA
• CARE
• RPMM Network
• Save the Children
• RHR Consortium

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AMDD Technical Partners

• Include
• FHI
• EngenderHealth (was AVSC)
• John Snow Inc.
• Indian Institute of Management
• Johns Hopkins University

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Key Program Elements
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AMDD-SupportedProjects

• ASIA Bangladesh, Bhutan, India (2), Nepal,
  Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Vietnam
• AFRICA Ethiopia, Mali, Morocco, Mozambique,
  Rwanda, Tanzania RPMM Network (19 countries)

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AMDD-SupportedProjects (cont.)

• LATIN AMERICA Nicaragua, Peru
• Central Asia Tajikistan
• Other
• RHR Consortium (12 countries)
• Womens Groups
• Leadership Fund
• FIGO Awards, Journal

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Benefits of Partnership

• efficiency
• economy
• experience

• creativity
• replicability
• sustainability

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Efficiency Economy

• Our partners have
• country offices
• field staff
• agreements with governments

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Experience Creativity

• Partner staff have worked
• in many settings
• on various kinds of programs.

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Replicability Sustainability

• Our Partners have
• worldwide networks
• long-term involvement

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AMDDs Role

• Maintain focus
• Provide technical input
• Promote sharing

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The AMDD Global Network

• Columbia University
• Project Partners
• Technical Partners
• Governments
• Communities

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AMDD WEBSITE

• See our website for publications, our newsletter
  (in 3 languages) etc.
• WWW.AMDD.HS.COLUMBIA.EDU