Marguerite Ndour
Project director, INSPiRE
Through phases one and two of this regional award from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, IntraHealth International is working to improve nutrition and reproductive, maternal, newborn, and child health in the nine Ouagadougou Partnership countries of West Africa.
Francophone West Africa has among the highest maternal, neonatal, and child mortality rates in the world. The World Health Organization estimates that more than 303,000 women died in 2015 due to complications of pregnancy or childbirth, more than one-third of them in West and Central Africa. The global maternal mortality rate is 216/100,000 live births, while the maternal mortality rate in the nine Ouagadougou Partnership countries—Benin, Guinea, Mali, Mauritania, Senegal, Togo, Burkina Faso, Cote D’Ivoire, and Niger—ranges from 315 (Senegal) to 679 (Guinea).
One out of every 41 women will die of maternal causes in these countries, compared to 1 in 4,900 in higher-income nations.
Together, IntraHealth and our partners work with the nine Ouagadougou Partnership countries to:
While INSPiRE will support all nine Ouagadougou Partnership countries, it will provide higher levels of targeted support and resources to three flagship countries: Burkina Faso, Cote d’Ivoire, and Niger.
Using lessons learned from the successes and challenges the Ouagadougou Partnership countries experienced as they built their costed implementation plans for family planning, the project will work with the nine member countries to:
Where: | Burkina Faso, Niger, Guinea |
Dates: | 2017 to 2023 |
Funder: | Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation |
Helen Keller International, PATH, and Institut de Recherche en Sciences de la Santé
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