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Advocacy Resources

Advocacy resources provide midwives and midwives’ associations (MAs) tools and guidance to help advocate for continuity of midwife care globally. They support efforts to strengthen MAs, collaborate with feminist and health advocacy groups, and raise awareness about the positive impact of continuity of midwife care on health outcomes.

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Guide

Digital Event Guidelines  

As the International Confederation of Midwives (ICM), we understand the important role digital events play in connecting, educating, and engaging with midwives nationally and globally. Digital events break geographical barriers, ensuring accessibility for everyone with an internet connection, no matter where they are, through a cost-effective, flexible, and environmentally sustainable solution. This document provides guidelines covering all aspects you should consider when planning and hosting an online (digital) event.
Toolkit/Tool

International Day of the Midwife (IDM) 2024 Toolkit

Our IDM toolkit is packed with resources to help you celebrate and advocate. From ready-to-use social media messages to vibrant flyers and banners, we’ve got you covered. For the first time, our toolkit includes easily ditable graphics, allowing you to customise messages with your own translations and photos. Plus, we’re unveiling an official IDM badge for member associations and partners to proudly display.
Report

Midwifery Leaders Showcase

The Midwifery Leaders Showcase is a series of featured interviews with midwives from all 6 of ICM’s regions that showcase the dynamic and diverse role that midwives play.
A midwife Hotaru Tsuchida and Yuka Yamamoto a midwifery university student prepare to help with delivery at Aiiku Hospital in Tokyo, Japan.
Website

The Global Midwives’ Hub 

The Global Midwives’ Hub is a digital repository with data on midwifery research and policy development, a central place for verified midwifery-related data.
Joint Statement

The Health-Care Professional Associations’ response to the Honoring Women’s Demands paper

In 2022, women's voices united through the What Women Want campaign, demanding respect and dignity in healthcare, prompting Honoring Women's Demands.
Midwife Talita Oseguera performs a general check up with Lacee Rodgers who is 32 weeks pregnant at Choices clinic. Memphis, Tennessee, USA.
Core Document

Professional Framework for Midwifery (2021)

Every profession needs a structure to support it, strengthen it and guide its development, that includes all the elements required before an occupation can be considered a profession.
Toolkit/Tool

Advocacy Toolkit

Advocacy is the act of supporting a cause to effect change; this toolkit helps midwives and midwives’ associations learn and plan advocacy activities.
Statement

Statement on Stopping the Criminalisation of Midwifery

Women’s right to choose home birth must be upheld. This choice should not be denied because there is not an adequate and enabling regulatory framework that would make it possible for midwives to practice their profession in any place that women choose to give birth.