GLOBAL STRATEGY 1999 - 2002
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GOAL1: To work towards achievement of the
Safe-Motherhood goals.
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OBJECTIVE
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ACTIVITIES
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OUTCOMES
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To regularly disseminate to member associations up-dates on
progress of Safe-Motherhood Initiative.
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Forward to (or have put on mailing lists) member associations
copies of WHO Safe-Motherhood Newsletter and other regularly published
periodicals on this issue.
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Member associations and midwives kept informed.
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Disseminate outcomes of joint ICM/ WHO/ UNICEF Workshops.
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Member associations, Regional Representatives initiate follow up
activities resulting from 1987, 1991, 1993 and 1996 Pre-congress workshops
and mid-triennium workshops/symposia.
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Action plans from Pre-congress workshops applied at local and
regional level to reduce maternal mortality and morbidity.
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Plan and implement ongoing collaborative activities with similarly
committed international organisations.
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Select sites, funding and establish collaborative team to plan
1999 Pre-congress workshop (HQ) and others where no ICM membership.
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Ongoing development and strengthening of midwifery services
responsive to shortfalls identified as contributing to maternal mortality
rates in countries where rates are high.
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GOAL 2: To demonstrate the potential of midwifery
actions to reduce maternal and perinatal mortality
and morbidity rates
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OBJECTIVE
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ACTIVITIES
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OUTCOMES
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Establish direct correlation between provision of midwifery care
and improvements in maternal and newborn outcomes.
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Collect sample of data and results of studies undertaken related
to midwifery initiatives in both developed and developing countries.
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Increasing recognition of significance of midwifery care
world-wide.
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Maintain and intensify working relationships with other
international organisations engaged in data collection on maternal and perinatal outcomes and the provision of trained personnel
in maternity services.
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Participation in collaborative studies.
Establish and maintain formal inter-organisational relationships
Establish Standing Committee on Research
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Access to data that ICM and member associations could use to
promote midwifery care to Governments and other international organisations.
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Gain better knowledge of economics of maternity care world-wide.
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Collect /acquire data on costs of educating midwives and other
maternity care providers.
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More substantive information on economics of maternity care
provision on which to base argument to increase midwifery education
programmes and coverage by midwives.
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GOAL 3: To
extend the knowledge of midwifery and influence of midwives throughout
the world in venues where decision-making
takes place and policies made about the delivery of maternity care.
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OBJECTIVE
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ACTIVITIES
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OUTCOMES
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To have midwifery represented and midwives participating at all
levels nationally and internationally where decisions are made.
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Active support of midwives in gaining places on governmental and
international bodies.
Lobby for inclusion of midwives in national delegation to annual
World Health Assembly.
Lobby to have midwives appointed at highest levels in WHO with
direct responsibility for midwifery programmes.
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Informed midwives with access to additional support/information
sources from HQ.
Increased awareness and commitment of national health authorities
to statements contained in WHA resolution 45.5 Strengthening Nursing and
Midwifery in Support of Strategies for Health for All.
Better representation of midwifery as a profession and in decision
making in WHO with reduction of medical models of
maternity care.
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To identify and develop midwifery leaders with diverse skills and
knowledge in all regions who can represent ICM in a range of activities e.g.
management, clinical and research.
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Request member associations to identify midwives with specific
additional skills in response to specific opportunities to participate in
working groups/meetings/ conferences.
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To form networks that enable HQ to gain better inputs of
opportunities to seek ICM representation.
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Identification of midwife leaders in countries where there are no
member associations who may be able to represent midwifery in their area.
Seek and exchange information on forthcoming meetings/working
groups/ conferences.
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Representation of midwifery by those with more specific knowledge
of the region/area.
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To collect data and develop supportive statements for submission
from ICM to
WHO for inclusion in
Executive Committee Sessions January each year.
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Collection, region by region, of data relevant to responding to
WHA resolution 45.5 for submission to ICM Head-quarters
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Preparation of submissions to WHO secretariat that:
- validates midwifery as a discipline distinct from
nursing.
- identifies member states which have done what
contained in
resolution, or not.
- documents what ICM member associations have
done to contribute to the
achievement of the goal of
health
for all.
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GOAL 5: To strengthen midwifery education and
ongoing education programmes, including the role of the midwife as an
educator.
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OBJECTIVE
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ACTIVITIES
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OUTCOMES
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To develop better knowledge of provision of midwifery education
world wide.
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Establishment of regional networks through which data can be
collected.
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Identification of range of midwifery programmes and where support
most urgently required for strengthening.
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To identify on going midwifery education as a fundamental
requirement for achievement of improved maternity care.
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Data collection, region by region, of information on provision by
regulatory, self funded or government of ongoing education for practising
midwives, plus comparative data on maternal and perinatal
outcomes.
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Capacity to logically and actively seek commitment of midwives,
employers and governments to ongoing education where it can be demonstrated
as needed.
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To support the enhancement of national midwifery education
programmes related to clinical care needs of women and their newborn in
individual countries.
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Support of regional workshops in curriculum development and course
planning provision and support of exchange programmes for midwifery teachers.
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Midwifery educational programs tailored to
countries needs based on sound educational
principles.
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To support the proper preparation of midwife teachers.
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Support of teachers’ training workshops.
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Enhanced midwifery education.
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To encourage all midwives to prepare for their role in teaching
others about health.
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Support the inclusion of teaching and learning principles in all
midwifery programmes.
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More effective teaching efforts.
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GOAL 6: To develop mechanisms to support midwives
so they can fully practice their skills.
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OBJECTIVE
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ACTIVITIES
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OUTCOMES
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To study means of promoting the role of the midwife as a health
care provider so full potential is realised.
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Support research applications that aim to quantify the impact of
midwifery actions on the health status of women and the newborn in diverse
settings.
Support the Standing Committee on Midwifery Practice.
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Substantive body of knowledge which can be used to promote the
role of the midwife in the world's health services.
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To identify midwife led services throughout the world.
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Seek through regional representatives
distribution of questionnaires to establish broad based data on such services
every two years.
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Knowledge of development of midwifery led services, cost benefits
against women's/newborn health status.
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To offer guidance on legislation or regulation that supports the
full practice of midwifery.
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Review and provide models of enabling legislation.
Hold workshops.
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Midwives are able to fully practice.
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GOAL 7: To encourage
and support midwifery research and the pursuit of quality in the care
of women in the reproductive years.
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OBJECTIVE
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ACTIVITIES
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OUTCOMES
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To obtain funding to support targeted operational research
projects.
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Submission /grant writing.
Funding proposal development.
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Funds of sufficient amounts for significant projects.
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To identify projects for ICM support.
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Regional representatives to submit proposals for projects in their
regions or elsewhere
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Listing of future programmes/projects for funding and work.
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To ensure action statements from Oslo Pre-Congress workshop(s)
held in collaboration with WHO, UNICEF, are
published and enacted.
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Distribution of outcomes to member associations with request for
information on follow-up activities.
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Follow up activities.
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Establish international network of midwifery researchers.
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Seek support of member associations to nominate midwives from
membership to form network.
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Strengthening of midwifery research initiatives.
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Establish Standing Committee on Research.
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Annual Meetings via email.
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Provide a ready resource to Member Associations.
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GOAL 8: To classify and define midwifery activities.
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OBJECTIVE
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ACTIVITIES
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OUTCOMES
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To ensure national health departments have made available to them
copy of International Definition of the Midwife.
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Member associations reinforce with governments and health departments definition of a midwife as distributed from
ICM HQ.
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Better informed decision-makers in government health departments.
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To preserve the integrity of the title midwife.
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Determine what other descriptives are
attached to title by region and the role and function of each worker.
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Ability to better debate and contribute to international data
bases on provision of trained/qualified maternity service personnel.
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To establish if historical development of personnel within
maternity services has relevance in provision of care to women today.
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Obtain by region better knowledge of why it is so, that other
personnel have varying supplementary descriptive titles added to the word
midwife.
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Contributing effectively to better `describing' personnel that do
not fit the International Definition of the Midwife.
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GOAL 9: To secure the financial viability of ICM.
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OBJECTIVE
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ACTIVITIES
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OUTCOMES
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To stabilise the predictable income for ICM.
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Establish the Capitation Fee on a realistic and equitable basis.
Alter the ratio of income between capitation fees and other
sources of income.
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Budget accuracy.
Reduced vulnerability to market trends
Reduced dependence on unpredictable Congress income and interest.
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To keep members informed through out triennium of financial
standing of ICM.
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Circulate annual summary of audited statement of income and
expenditure.
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Member associations better informed of ongoing financial status of
ICM.
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To obtain funding for SMI related project activity in non-ICM
countries.
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Commission of grant writing.
Identify potential funding agencies.
Release a proportion of ICM's capital to support a specific
project.
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Contribution to maternal & child health through SMI.
Strengthen midwifery in region of activity.
Raise ICM profile.
Increase ICM membership.
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To develop and strengthen income generation initiatives at HQ and
in the regions.
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Increase revenues to support:
- SMI activities
- Support staff & resources at HQ
- Project activity in regions.
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To establish ICM publications, newsletters, reports, etc. on a
commercial basis.
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Maintain editorial framework under which publications can operate.
Seek publisher, sponsorship and acceptance of advertising for ICM
publications.
Market newsletter on a personal subscription basis.
Sell all documents at realistic cost.
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Cohesive publication activity based on documented policies
Release existing ICM revenue for direct member services
(consultancy, representation, etc.)
Create fresh source of income to support further work and
information dissemination, etc.
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In the interests of equity to encourage all language groups
with in ICM to assume responsibility for translating documents into their own
language.
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Limit translation of ICM materials to strict minimum (e.g. official
letters to outside bodies).
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Significant reduction in translation outlay.
Increased availability of funds for core ICM activity.
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To increase volunteer support of activities.
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Identify and match
skills of midwife
volunteers and activities required to strengthen development of ICM at
regional and HQ level.
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Increased capacity to complete projects associated with global
strategy/action plan for triennium.
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GOAL 10: To increase the number of associations of midwives
in membership in countries where no member associations exist at present.
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OBJECTIVE
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ACTIVITIES
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OUTCOMES
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To increase membership within ICM by country
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Assess number of countries where there are midwifery
associations/groups but not in ICM Membership.
Identify countries where there are midwives but no formed groups.
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Listing of target associations for recruitment to ICM.
Listing of countries to be targeted for provision of assistance to
midwives to form groups.
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To seek agreement with regional representatives that they will
`recruit' associations for ICM
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Support regional representative in recruitment campaign with
literature, information and establishment of networks.
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Greater membership and knowledge of why midwives have not joined
ICM and formed own group.
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To develop and implement projects in countries where no member
association, so as to raise awareness of ICM and benefits of forming
association and joining ICM.
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Dissemination of listings of possible funding sources
Provision of `Model' grant applications and workshops on writing of applications for grants
and funding.
Writing grant applications for funding of projects
Recruitment of project leaders who are expert midwives and team
builders.
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Funding for projects.
ICM presence in countries where little known now.
Stronger professional identification in countries where little
known.
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GOAL 11: To disseminate information and provide
forums by which member associations and their membership can share
and develop from the experience of others.
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OBJECTIVE
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ACTIVITIES
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OUTCOMES
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To launch an affordable periodical for midwives - International
Midwifery Matters.
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Seek sponsorship
Establish an editorial committee
Canvass for material to publish.
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A regular and reliable source of international information on
midwifery, midwives and maternity care.
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To develop a readily accessed resource centre at HQ on
international midwifery matters.
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Maintain a part-time librarian.
Maintain space and facilities to house resources.
Establish on-line computer databases that enable the dissemination
of information.
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A facility that supports member associations in the pursuit of
each for knowledge of midwifery world-wide
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To facilitate the conduct of workshops, seminars, and conferences
in ICM regions.
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Obtain the commitment of regional representatives to develop a
regional action plan for the triennium.
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Heightened regional activity
Publication of papers/workshop outcomes for access by others.
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GOAL 12: The development of national codes of
ethics based on the International Code of Ethics for Midwives.
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OBJECTIVE
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ACTIVITIES
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OUTCOMES
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The development of national codes of ethics for midwives in all
countries where ICM has membership.
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Dissemination of introductory booklet from HQ with International
Code of Ethics.
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Establishment of working groups/committees in each country to
review present situation, reflect on International Code and adopt action plan
for development/ adoption of Code.
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To monitor and follow up adoption of Code at Vancouver 1993.
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Establishment of international task force/co-ordinating
group linked to regional representatives for feed back and support.
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Collection of data, from which to develop report to ICM Council
Vienna 2002.
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