Health services for women and girls in Haïti

The expected intermediate results for this project include the following: 1) Haitian midwives receive quality training, equally accessible to women and men, aligned with the expectations/needs in obstetric/neonatal care and in family planning, taking into consideration the rights of women and girls; 2) the use of obstetric/neonatal care in Haiti has increased for populations served by the maternity clinic built.

Results achieved by this project, which ended in July 2018, include the following: 1) reconstruction of the Institut supérieur national de formation des sages-femmes (INSFSF) was completed; 2) construction of the Massaïde maternity clinic was completed; 3) curriculum support: two partnerships were created for work placements with university hospitals in Nantes and Suresnes, resulting in 25 weeks of exchanges (21 in France and 4 in Haiti); 4) capacity building with seven members of the supervisory and teaching staff; 5) more than 40 teachers received training on teaching midwifery practices using a competency-based approach; 6) partnerships with the Association Actions Santé Femmes, the Nantes university hospital and the Foch hospital in Suresnes have been developed to build the capacities of the INSFSF’s managerial and teaching team; 7) INSFSF welcomed 4 waves of 40 midwives, meaning 160 registrations; and 8) training in sexual and reproductive health, including gender-based violence, was offered to 160 graduates.