March 2023 has been a busy month for the Mozambique-Canada Maternal Health Project. Nazeem Muhajarine, Principal Investigator, was visiting the project in Inhambane, Mozambique, as was Nadege Sandrine Uwamohoro, Research Officer leading the realist research components of the intervention research. One of the highlights during this visit for Nazeem and Nadege are the intervention research presentations that they have been invited to deliver. The first was a presentation Nadege and Nazeem delivered to a wider group of Canadian High Commission staff and health and education consultants that the High Commission staff work with. The presentation, titled, Towards successful uptake of maternity waiting homes in low-and-middle income countries, was very well received. This presentation focused on a global synthesis research on maternal waiting homes using realist synthesis methods conducted by the team. A special focus included research implications spelled out in a policy brief directed at donors of international development projects.

Another highlight was invited presentations delivered by Nazeem Muhajarine and Jessie Forsyth focusing on two research projects, respectively, at the inaugural Open Research Day organized by the Provincial Health Directorate. The event, first of its kind, was attended by about 100 people. Nazeem spoke about maternal near-miss (Maternal Near-Miss and Obstetric Care Quality Assessment in two Secondary Level Hospitals in Inhambane) and Jessie spoke about results from the Maternal Experience Study.

Welcome!

Thank you for your interest in the Mozambique-Canada Maternal Health Project. This project came to an end on June 30, 2024. You may continue to the site to see our final update and find out what we did, but please keep in mind that it is an archived site and will no longer be updated.

We now have a new project**: Sexual and Reproductive Health for Young Women in Inhambane**. We will be activating its website soon.

The new project builds on the old one, but with some changes to adapt to new realities. We will continue to seek improved, sexual, reproductive and maternal health and rights for women, now focusing more on adolescent girls and younger women, within the context of model communities of care, taking into consideration their families and their communities. We will continue to partner with community health communities (now 30 compared to 20) within selected districts in Inhambane (now 6 rather than 5). We will also continue to partner with the provincial health directorate (DPSI) to improve infrastructural and human resources in the health system. And we will continue to carry out helpful research and disseminate information.

Let us know if you would like to be notified when our new site is up!