DFID, UNFPA to train midwives
The Department for International Development (DFID) and the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) yesterday signed a grant agreement to produce competent midwives in Bangladesh.
Jane Edmondson, head of DFID Bangladesh, and Argentina Matavel Piccin, UNFPA representative to Bangladesh, signed the agreement at DFID office in the capital, said a joint statement of the two organizations.
The objective of the five-year programme “Strengthening the National Midwifery Programme (SNMP)” is to improve the quality of midwifery education and create an enabling environment for midwifery-led care for pregnant women and their babies in Bangladesh.
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