Essential Competencies

The Essential Competencies for Midwifery Practice are a minimum set of knowledge, skills and professional behaviours for a midwife.

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5 January 2024

Zambia’s Path to Improved Maternal Services Through Midwifery Services

In a visit to Zambia in October, ICM collaborated with the Zambian Ministry of Health (MoH), the Midwifery Association of Zambia (MAZ), and key stakeholders to ensure the continuation of the initiative to advance midwifery-led models of care, providing effective, efficient, and desirable healthcare services.

Enabling Environment, Essential Competencies, Model of Care, Africa

Midwife Smrity Biswas is doing Fatema’s pregnancy routine checkup. She does routine examinations in the female ward and attends to newborn babies and mothers. Keraniganj Upazila Health Complex, Bangladesh.

4 January 2024

Professional Midwife-Led Care in India

The midwifery profession, as defined by the International Confederation of Midwives (ICM), is new in India. India, like many countries is moving towards embedding midwifery into its health system as a way to improve sexual, reproductive, maternal and newborn health outcomes.

Education, Essential Competencies, Midwife-Led Birth Centres, Model of Care, South-East Asia

5 April 2023

Midwifery Services Framework (MSF) Implementation Pays off in Zambia

ICM was pleased to celebrate alongside Zambian midwives and women this past month after Zambian Minister of Health, Sylvia T. Masebo, outlined a commitment to ensuring women have access to … Continued

Essential Competencies, Model of Care, Africa

4 October 2022

ICM Continues Implementation of Midwifery Services Framework in Zambia

ICM Continues Implementation of Midwifery Services Framework in Zambia Through the ICM Project Lead based in Zambia, ICM continues to establish new communication lines to the Zambian Ministry of Health … Continued

Enabling Environment, Essential Competencies

1 July 2022

An interview with Karen Guilliland on building midwifery in the Asia-Pacific

“From the moment I joined midwifery, I was in love with it. It never felt like a job.” The amiable Karen Guilliland, previously CEO of New Zealand College of Midwives … Continued

Enabling Environment, Essential Competencies, Model of Care, Philosophy

6 November 2020

32nd ICM Virtual Triennial Congress – FAQ

In October, the ICM Board made the decision to transfer the 2021 32nd Triennial Congress to a virtual format instead of continuing with plans for a face-to-face Congress in Bali. … Continued

Association, Education, Enabling Environment, Essential Competencies, Leadership, Philosophy, Regulation