AREA OF FOCUS

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Maternal and Child Health

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Introduction to Maternal and Child Health

Community-level antenatal care and childbirth services including promoting good nutrition, preventing HIV transmission and frontline health work training

Local and culturally sensitive support of reproductive health programs, including family planning services

Under age five child health projects, including immunization and treatment for measles, malaria, AIDS, diarrheal diseases, and other childhood killers

Maternal and Child Health:Saving Mothers and Babies

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Common Maternal and Child Health Project Types

Antenatal Care and Childbirth

Reproductive Health and Family Planning

Child Healthcare

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Common Maternal and Child Health Project Types

Training

Best Practices

Education

Best Practices

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Project Lifecycle

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Leveraging Knowledge: RAGs and RCCs

Rotary Community Corps (RCC)

Rotary Community Corps (RCC) is a team of non-Rotarians who are flexible partners in service

for Rotary clubs.

RCCs offer community solutions forcommunity issues.

Rotarian Action Groups(RAGs)

Rotarian Action Groups (RAGs) leverage their expertise in their

particular area of interest to support clubs and districts.

The Rotarian Action Group for Population and Development

(RFPD) helps members formulate project proposals, secure funding,

and provide technical guidance in operations.

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Global Grants with The Rotary Foundation

Global grant eligibility requirements

Sustainable

Measurable goals

Align with an area of focus

Respond to real community needs

Actively involve Rotariansand host community members

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Global Grants Scope for Maternal and Child Health

Supporting graduate-level studies in

programs related to maternal and child

health

Initiatives that improve capacity of existing

community initiatives or local women’s

groups pertaining to maternal and child

health

Training and “train the trainer” activities for doctors, nurses, community health

workers, skilled birth attendants, and other

maternal and child health professionals

and leaders

Capacity Building

Vocational Training

Scholarships

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Global Grants Scope for Maternal and Child Health

• Prenatal, neonatal, and postnatal care

• Labor and delivery services

• Prevention of maternal morbidity and mortality

• Promotion of breastfeeding

• Family planning• Prevention and

treatment of sexually transmitted disease, including HIV/AIDS, HPV, etc.

• Education on sexual health

Education and training to reduce the incidence of morbidity and mortality of children under the age of five, including:• Immunization• Malnutrition

prevention• Lifesaving surgeries

to address congenital problems

Maternal care Child mortalityReproductive health

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Maternal and Child Health Resources

Communities in

Action: A Guide

to Effective

Projects

Community

Assessment

Tools

An Introduction

to Vocational

Service

Rotarian Action Group for

Population and

Development

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Global Grant Resources

Grant Management

Manual

Areas of Focus

Policy Statements

Rotary’s Areas of

Focus

Terms and Conditions

for Rotary Foundation

District Grants and

Global Grants

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Contact Information

+1 866-976-8279 (toll free)

Rotary International

One Rotary Center

1560 Sherman Ave.

Evanston, IL 60201-3698, USA