Essential Competencies Resources

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.

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.

This resource provides information on how to integrate the ICM Essential Competencies for Midwifery Practice (2024) into a midwifery education programme. It also reviews how to design learning activities and assessments for a competency-based curriculum.

The competency mapping tool enables faculty to align their Midwifery programmes, whether new or existing, with the Essential Competencies for Midwifery Practice.

This guide provides midwife educators with information on assessing the ICM Essential Competencies for Midwifery Practice. It contains an overview of competency-based assessment and examples of the most common assessments used in a midwifery curriculum.

The essential competences for the practice of midwifery describe the minimum set of knowledge, skills and professional behaviours required by an individual to use the title of midwife as defined by the ICM.

This document underscores midwives' crucial role in newborn care, stressing the need for high-quality training, resources, and support to reduce neonatal mortality.