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The enabling environment for midwives supports the infrastructure, profession, and system-level integration needed for midwives to effectively practise the full scope of their profession.

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Guide

Professional Framework for Midwifery – Implementation Guide

This Guide provides a step-by-step approach to applying the Professional Framework for Midwifery to strengthen midwifery services, improve the quality of SRMNAH care, and support long-term health system improvements.
Core Document

Professional Framework for Midwifery

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.
Position Statement

Ethical Recruitment of Midwives 

Recruitment practices should be guided by ethical principles, without targeting low-income countries. Midwives recruited to work in other countries should be respected and receive sufficient orientation and support.
Policy Brief

Enabling Environment

The enabling environment for midwives supports the infrastructure, profession, and system-level integration needed for midwives to effectively practise their full scope of work; this brief identifies the necessary policies for scaling midwife-led care.
Statement

Statement on the Provision of Personal Protective Equipment for Midwives  

Urgent Call for Governments to Provide Personal Protective Equipment to Midwives
Statement

Statement on COVID-19 Vaccination for Midwives

ICM calls on all midwives to be vaccinated against COVID-19 to protect themselves and safely continue to provide care for mothers and newborns.
A midwife Haruka Fukuda talks to her patient during pregnancy check up at Aiiku Hospital in Tokyo, Japan.
Joint Statement

Protecting Midwives to Sustain Care for Women, Newborns and their Families in the COVID-19 Pandemic

As the world struggles to get COVID-19 under control, our global health workforce is under increasing strain – and woman-centred, midwifery-led care is more at risk than ever.