CAPACITY STRENGTHENING TOOL

How to Mobilize Communities for Improved Maternal and Newborn Health

This guide is intended for individuals who will work with communities asthey mobilize to improvematernal and newborn health (MNH). It was created as a supplement to How to Mobilize Communities for

Health and Social Change.

This guide has three parts:

  1. An overview of maternal and newborn health
  2. A walk through the steps of the mobilization process,following the phases of the community action cycle.This is the “how-to” portion of the guide,containing all of the essential instructions for carrying out a community mobilization initiative toimprove the health of pregnant women and newborns
  3. An annex whichcontains a series of 19 tools

Last modified: July 23, 2021

Language: English