FRONTIERS PROJECT
Taking Critical Services to the Home: Scaling Up Home-based Maternal and Postnatal Care, Including Family Planning, Through Community Midwives

This project, conducted in collaboration with Kenya's Ministry of Health, sought to increase access to skilled delivery care, newborn care, and post-delivery family planning services among women living in remote and resource-poor areas. The project was built upon a pilot project in Western Province testing the feasibility of midwife-driven maternal and infant care, and focused on strengthening and sustaining the community-based community and newborn care package within the four pilot areas, and scaled up the approach throughout the four districts that hosted the pilot study. Midwives received refresher training on family planning and obstetrics, bicycles to expand their access, and supplies and commodities to encourage home visits. They also received business training to enable them to become self-employed health care providers. The feasibility and utilization of this midwifery package was documented and disseminated.

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Location

Western Province, Kenya

Duration

January 2007–March 2008

Population Council researcher

Charlotte Warren

Non-Council collaborators

Division of Reproductive Health, Ministry of Health

Donor

US Agency for International Development

Publications/Resources
Council researchers' names appear in boldface type. 

2008
Mwangi, Annie and Charlotte Warren. "Taking critical services to the home: Scaling-up home-based maternal and postnatal care, including family planning, through community midwifery in Kenya," FRONTIERS Final Report. Washington, DC: Population Council. (PDF, 779 KB)

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See Also

• Kenya 

• Reproductive Health

• Safe Motherhood/Postpartum Care

• General Quality of Care

• FRONTIERS Quality of Care Improvement

• FRONTIERS Kenya

• FRONTIERS Scaling Up

• FRONTIERS Safe Motherhood/Postpartum Care

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