Description of Session
The Safe Delivery App is a smartphone application that provides skilled birth attendants with direct and instant access to evidence-based and up-to-date clinical guidelines on Basic Emergency Obstetric and Neonatal Care. The App leverages the growing ubiquity of mobile phones to provide life-saving information and guidance through easy-to-understand animated instruction videos, action cards and drug lists. It can serve as a training tool both in pre- and in-service training, and equips birth attendants even in the most remote areas with a powerful on-the-job reference tool. At Maternity Foundation, we strive to bridge the gap between the development of effective health innovations and the capacity to effectively implement them. We do this by providing expertise to help partner organisations adapt, implement, monitor and evaluate the Safe Delivery App within their specific contexts and programs. Drawing on fifteen years of health worker capacity building in Ethiopia, implementation of the Safe Delivery App across fifteen countries, and a team of international, multi-disciplinary experts, we offer our partners technical support and resources in three main areas: App adaptation, implementation support, and monitoring, data analytics and insights. In close collaboration with our partners, we help optimize the potential of the Safe Delivery App to impact the knowledge, skills, and confidence of skilled birth attendants and ultimately improve the quality of care delivered to mothers and their newborns.
