Resource type: Report

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Lots of responsibility, little appreciation - The role of midwives in fragile contexts

Midwives play an essential role as Frontline Health Workers in providing access to sexual and reproductive health and rights and how they act as agents of change. However, their situation in the crisis and post-conflict contexts of Iraq and Côte d'Ivoire shows how they often compensate for the shortcomings of resource-poor and sometimes dysfunctional health systems through high level of personal commitment.

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CARE International's Partnership Standards and Indicators

Partnership Standards are norms for actions and behaviours that guide our relationships with other stakeholders. CARE uses these Standards to monitor both the quality of our relations with partners and the results expected from them.

Photo Credit: Peter Caton/CARE
 

Her Voice 2024

Addressing the unprecedented and overwhelming humanitarian crisis requires response and recovery efforts to listen to and address the needs of those affected the most, especially women and girls.