Safe Motherhood Program

completed

The Queen of Sheba Safe Motherhood Program is a four year community based output based aid program that comprises the provision of a defined ‘Mother-Baby package’ of essential quality services as defined by WHO, such as antenatal care, birth attendance by skilled birth attendants, postnatal care, complicated care services and family planning, to eligible women of reproductive age (15-49) in Sana’a, Yemen. The program will be largely subsidized by grant financing from the Global Partnership on Output Based Aid (GPOBA). There will be a minimal user fee charged to patients. 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 of the program. Primary and secondary care services will be provided 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.