Cowater International Inc.
$22,345,762.00 CAD
- Department
- Global Affairs Canada
- Program
- —
- Recipient country
- Bangladesh
- Fiscal year
- 2010-2011
- Agreement period
- November 8, 2010 – April 30, 2019
- Project status
- Closed
- Reference
- CA-3-A034608001
Published purpose
This project aims to improve maternal and neonatal health status of poor women, girls and boys. It provides technical assistance, equipment, and teaching and learning aids to the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare to improve the quality of education for nurse midwives and community skilled birth attendants. It also provides support to the Ministry to rationalize the rules for recruiting, posting, promoting and training nurse midwives. Project activities include: (1) training nursing teachers and supervisors in pedagogy and midwifery; (2)providing teaching and learning aids to public sector nursing institutes; (3) repairing nursing institutes; (4) strengthening the Bangladesh Nursing Council so it can enforce standards at nursing training institutes; (5) supporting the installation of a nursing management information system at the Directorate of Nursing Services; and (6) supporting training and supervision of community skilled birth attendants. The project works with the Directorate of Nursing Services, the Bangladesh Nursing Council and the Human Resource Development Unit of the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare.
In plain English AI-generated
This project improves maternal and neonatal health in Bangladesh by training nurse midwives, strengthening nursing education and regulation, and supporting community skilled birth attendants.
Category: Health Primarily funds activity outside Canada
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