Safe Motherhood Program

completed

The Queen of Sheba Safe Motherhood Program is a four year community based program that comprises the provision of a defined ‘Mother-Baby package’ of essential quality services such as antenatal care, birth attendance by skilled birth attendants, postnatal care, complicated care services and family planning. The program will target women (first time mothers and those with up to two children) of reproductive age (15-49) in two underserved districts in Sana’a, Yemen, in the first year (household income less than $2/day), based on certain defined eligibility criteria.All services will be provided by the private sector: - Two private Yemeni hospitals, the Saudi German Hospital (SGH) and University of Science and Technology Hospital (USTH) have been identified as appropriate clinical service providers for the first phase. Primary and secondary care services will be provided to targeted women by midwives at satellite clinics to be established in the districts and owned and managed by the hospitals. Patients requiring emergency or complicated care will be referred to the two private hospitals; - SOUL, a reputable local Yemeni NGO, will serve as project implementation and promotion unit responsible for program promotion, awareness campaigns and targeting of eligible pregnant women; and - A fiduciary agent will be the recipient of the GPOBA grant and manage the fund flow in the project. The private providers will bear the operational risks of the program as they will be reimbursed retroactively post service delivery and performance target verification by an independent verification expert (IVE).