Transcript About FCI •Established in 1987 as non profit organization. •Work in Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean. Mission FCI is dedicated to making pregnancy and childbirth safer.

About FCI
•Established in 1987 as non profit
organization.
•Work in Africa, Latin America and the
Caribbean.
Mission
FCI is dedicated to making pregnancy and
childbirth safer around the world.
United Nations Millennium
Development Goal 5 (MDG5)
GOAL 5: Improve Maternal Health
Target 1: Reduce by three quarters between
1990 and 2015, the maternal mortality ratio.
Target 2: Achieve universal access to
reproductive health.
FYI
• Each year more than 500 000 women die
during pregnancy or childbirth, almost all
of them in sub-Saharan Africa and Asia.
• Health-care interventions can reduce
maternal deaths, but need to be made
more widely available.
• No single intervention can address the
multiple causes of maternal deaths
Invest in Women- it pays
• Women Deliver Initiative launched in 2007
• With increased political will and adequate
financial investment, most women and newborns
can survive so that families, communities and
nations can thrive.
• Women Deliver engages with influential policy
makers and budget planners from donor country
and developing governments, multi-lateral
agencies, and foundations to mobilize increased
funding allocations for maternal health.
Skilled Care Initiative (SCI)
• Launched in 2000 with support from the
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
• Five-year operations research project in
four rural, under-served districts in Burkina
Faso, Kenya and Tanzania
Youth Peer Education Programs
• Target out of school
youths.
• Collaborate with local
organizations,
government, communities.
• Difficulty in evaluating
long term behavior
change.
• Currently have active peer
education programs in
Mali, Burkina Faso and
Niger.
Publications
• FCI have developed a wide range of
informational and training materials that
partners can use to improve the quality of
their services and strengthen reproductive
and sexual health programs.
• An example of an FCI publication is: You,
Your Life, Your Dreams: A Book for
Adolescents which has been published in
several languages
- Investing women is not only
the right thing to do but the
smart thing to do.
- Ban Ki Moon