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Women and Children First’s Policy Work

WCF is engaged in evidence-informed reproductive, maternal, newborn and child health policy work, successfully influencing the UK Department for International Development, the International Development Select Committee and All Party Parliamentary Group on Population, Development and Reproductive Health. Details about the different inquiries and WCF submissions can be found below.

International Development Committee Inquiry into DFID’s Programme in India (2011)

Department for International Development Reproductive, Maternal and Newborn Health Consultation (2010)

UK government White Paper on International Development (2009)

International Development Committee Inquiry into DFID’s Programme in Bangladesh (2009)

All Party Parliamentary Group on Population, Development and Reproductive Health Maternal Morbidity Inquiry (2008)

 

Saving Lives

Up to half a million women and three million newborn babies die each year in pregnancy and childbirth or soon afterwards, the majority of them in Africa and South Asia. For every woman who dies at least twenty more suffer complications which leave them with lifelong disability and pain.

Our unique programmes are saving the lives of mothers and babies every day. We need you to help us to equip women with their most vital survival tool: knowledge.