Our Partners

The Project works with partners and associates in both Mozambique and Canada

Mozambique

The principal Mozambican partner is the Inhambane Provincial Health Directorate (DPSI).

The Provincial Health Director, Dr. Naftal Matusse, is on the Project Steering Committee, as is Dr. Albertina Manhenje from the Mozambique Ministry of Health. The Project also works with the Massinga and Inhambane Training Centres.

This photograph was taken at one of the first Project Steering Committee Meetings, on October 17, 2017 in Inhambane City. From left to right, with positions in effect at the time, are Dr. Naftal Matusse, Provincial Health Director; Dr. Albertina Manhenje, Mozambique Ministry of Health; Dr. Stélio Tembe, Chief Medical Officer of Inhambane province; Cipriano Dyeja, Director of the Inhambane Training Centre; Bertina Vintane, Director of the Massinga Training Centre; Dr. Lídia Monjane, Mozambique Project Director; and Denise Kouri, Project Director.

DPSI headquarters

This photograph was taken at DPSI headquarters in June, 2017. From left to right, with positions in effect at the time, are, Horácio Mandevo, Mozambique Project Co-Director; Dr. Lídia Monjane, Mozambique Project Director; Dr. Naftal Matusse, Inhambane Provincial Health Director; Denise Kouri, Project Director; Dr. Sonia Mahesso, Head of Planning, DPSI; Dr. Amélia Ussene, Head of Medicine, DPSI; Dr. Jessie Forsyth, Project Gender Specialist (and current Project Director); and Don Kossick, Project Development Officer.

WLSA (Women and Law in Southern Africa)

WLSA Mozambique is the Project’s partner for gender. It is a non-governmental organisation that conducts research about women’s human rights. In the Project’s first year, they facilitated a workshop for the project that covered important topics about the role of women in communities, how they should be respected, recognized and be in the leadership of the local Committees of Health. Gender issues were discussed in the context of how the mortality rate for women and children is directly affected by gender roles.

Canada

The Project benefits from several professionals who contribute their advice and support. 

These photographs were taken at recent group and subgroup meetings.

Canadian Advisory Team – Top from Left to Right – Mahli Brindamour, Family Physician and Pediatrician, Saskatoon; Rachel Gough, Family and Sexual Health Physician, St. John’s, NL; Tanya Dunn-Pierce, Director – Population and Public Health, Quality, Safety and Strategy portfolio, Saskatchewan Health Authority; Sylvia Abonyi, Faculty, Community Health and Epidemiology, U of S; Eddie Rooke, Family Physician; Xochitl Hanson Pastran, Resident, Public Health and Preventative Medicine, UBC; Daphne McRae, Post Doctoral Research Fellow, UBC; Murray Dickson, Health Training Specialist, Saskatoon.

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!