Our Work

ICM supports our member associations to grow, strengthen and promote the midwifery model of care. Our work improves the health of women, gender diverse people and newborns, empowers communities, and advances gender equality.

Learn more about our work to embed midwife-led care in health systems, inspire leadership, improve education and more.

Ongoing Work

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Regulation

Strengthening the Regulation of Pre-Service Midwifery Education in Asia-Pacific Region  

This tailored online course supported 16 countries to align their regulatory mechanisms for pre-service midwifery education with the ICM Global Standards for Regulation, strengthening midwifery education across the region.
Essential Competencies

Collaborate for Women (C4W) Initiative

This initiative promotes competency-based, collaborative approaches to family planning and comprehensive abortion care, with midwives and obstetrician-gynecologists working together to expand access to high-quality, evidence-based services.
Leadership

Midwife Leaders’ Executive Sponsorship Programme 

This programme pairs executive sponsors with existing or emerging midwife leaders, providing participants with valuable guidance, opportunities for growth, and reciprocal learning experiences.
Advocacy

PUSH Campaign

PUSH is ICM’s global campaign for woman-centred care, advocating for midwives as the way to get us there. Midwives are critical to improving sexual and reproductive health access and outcomes, reducing maternal mortality, and saving newborn lives.
Education

ICM Midwifery Competencies Digital Learning Tool

Co-developed by ICM and Laerdal, the ICM Midwifery Competencies is a solution to help midwifery educators prepare students for clinical practice.
Advocacy, Association, Education, Leadership

Humanitarian and Climate Crises

With support from Direct Relief, ICM has provided emergency grants to Türkiye, Morocco, and Ukraine as part of our response to humanitarian and climate related crises.

Past Work

Advocacy, Association, Education, Leadership

Young Midwife Leaders Programme

The Young Midwife Leaders (YML) Programme was a part-time, two-year learning and professional development experience for early-career midwives. The programme was designed to empower young midwives to become politically conscious and involved in strengthening the midwifery profession.
Advocacy, Association, Leadership

Twin to Win

In 2022, ICM launched its first Twin to Win pilot project — a two-year initiative in which Member Associations (MAs) from similar contexts were matched and supported to develop and deliver joint and individual projects.
Advocacy, Association

Strengthening Midwifery Services with UNFPA

Working with the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), ICM has set out to deliver a broad range of initiatives designed to further contribute to the professionalisation of midwifery globally and strengthen ICM’s member associations (MAs) both locally and regionally, focusing on advocacy, education, respectful maternity care and quality midwifery consulting services.
Advocacy, Education

Strengthening Midwifery Services with BMGF

The Strengthening Midwifery Services (SMS) project, funded by BMGF works to build national midwives’ associations’ (MA) capacity to advocate for and deliver high quality midwife-led services and to help MAs to be better equipped to manage the day-to-day operations of their associations.
Education

Strengthening Midwifery in Mexico

With support from the MacArthur Foundation, ICM worked with the midwives and midwives’ associations in Mexico.
Association, Education

More Happy Birthdays

The More Happy Birthdays Project, supported by Latter-day Saint Charities (LDSC) and the Rwanda Ministry of Health (MoH), has improved the provision and experience of care for women and newborns in Rwanda by training maternal and newborn health providers in life-saving skills.
Association, Education, Research

50,000 Happy Birthdays

50,000 Happy Birthdays was led by ICM and national midwives’ associations (MAs) in Ethiopia, Rwanda and Tanzania. The programme ran from 2018 – 2020, and aimed to train, equip and support MAs, midwives and other health care providers with the skills they need to save the lives of mothers and newborns.

WithWomen

Donate to WithWomen, ICM’s charity

ICM founded WithWomen to elevate the work of midwives and to improve birth experiences, but also to support midwives’ projects and work in humanitarian and climate-affected settings. By donating to WithWomen, you are supporting the life-saving work midwives do every day, even in the most challenging circumstances.

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