Publish Date: May 2020
Author: MCSP
Several recent assessments have demonstrated that maternal and perinatal death surveillance and response (MPDSR) implementation lags behind national policy in many countries and that there are few global or local resources to build manager and health worker skills to implement MPDSR processes in low-resource settings. This module is part of a set of aligned MPDSR guidance and capacity-building materials supported by the World Health Organization (WHO), UNICEF, partners and members of the Global MPDSR Technical Working Group. Designed to support policy-makers, subnational managers and facility health workers to strengthen MPDSR systems, materials thus far include this maternal death surveillance and response (MDSR) capacity-building module; an aligned UNICEF-led perinatal death surveillance and response (PDSR) capacity- building module (available here); and MPDSR operational guidance under development by WHO.
