Programme
Day One and Day Two will focus on workshops that engage midwives in building their organisations and provide opportunities to enhance midwifery practice and build capacity within your association. Whether you’re part of a national midwives’ association, a regional or local branch, or a student organisation, these sessions are designed to support your growth and development.
Day Three will offer half- and full-day midwifery practice skills workshops, covering a variety of topics organised by ICM and its partners. These sessions will delve deeper into practical skills and advanced techniques, ensuring that participants leave with enhanced knowledge and capabilities to apply in their daily practice.
Poster presentation sessions will be held during the lunch breaks on Days 1 and 2.
Descriptions and information about the workshops below.
Day 1
Tuesday, 24 September 2024
Day 2
Wednesday, 25 September 2024
Day 3
If you select a full-day workshop, it will be the sole workshop you attend for the day, and you will not have the option to rotate through multiple workshops. Conversely, if you choose a half-day workshop, you will be required to attend an additional half-day workshop to complete your schedule.
Note: you will receive an email prior to the conference asking you to select your workshops.
Thursday, 26 September 2024
How (anyone) can use data to advocate for midwives
Facilitator: Jessica White, Faridah Luyiga
Language: English, French
Advocacy for midwives and maternal health is most successful when it is powered by data. However, it is often difficult to find verified, credible information. This workshop will introduce participants to the power of the Global Midwives’ Hub, the information it holds, and how to use it for data-driven advocacy. It’s also an opportunity to share your advocacy success stories and midwifery data needs with ICM and shape the future of the Hub.
Stronger midwives’ associations for healthier women and babies
Facilitator: Shree Mandke, Martha Bokosi, Aigul Kasymova
Language: English, French
Evidence shows that strong and sustainable midwives’ associations help grow the profession, which means that mothers and babies have better outcomes. But, MAs need sustained funding and investment from different sources.
This workshop will introduce participants to the ‘Why Invest in Midwives’ Associations Policy Brief, which outlines who, how and why invest in MAs.
Making midwife models of care work
Facilitator: Sally Pairman, Elizabeth (Zab) Franklin
Language: English, French
Continuity of Midwife Care produces the best outcomes for women and their babies. However, midwives need an enabling environment to deliver continuity of midwife care effectively.
This workshop will enable participants to explore continuity of midwife care and the enabling environment that is necessary, including concepts such as autonomy, accountability, policy, integration, continuity, and midwife-led birthing centres.
Every midwife is a leader
Facilitator: Jacqueline Dunkley-Bent
Language: English, French
Midwives and midwifery associations are often left out of formal decision-making spaces. This means midwives must often bring their own chairs to decision-making tables, and raise their voices to even be considered.
This workshop will introduce participants to different ways midwives can and should lead: formally, informally, cross-generationally, and more.
Midwives: Essential humanitarian responders
Facilitator: Neha Mankani, Liselotte Kweekel
Language: English, French
During and after a disaster there are almost always interruptions in reproductive and maternity services. Midwives are uniquely positioned, but not always prepared, to quickly mobilise and provide essential care for women and babies.
This workshop will present humanitarian response tools available to midwives through the experiences of others who have responded to these crises.
Good governance and healthy finances for midwives’ associations
Facilitator: Leefke Hinderlich, Nikkie Yeaman
Language: English, French
Running a midwives’ association, be it national, regional or for students, requires a skill set that midwives are often not taught or mentored in. These skills are essential for the success of the MA, which in turn is essential for the growth of a strong profession.
This workshop will guide participants through critical, but often missing topics such as good governance, financial management and membership engagement.
Essential Newborn Care 1: Immediate care and helping babies breathe at birth
Facilitator: World Health Organization, American Academy of Pediatrics, Laerdal Global Health
Language: English, French
Full Day Workshop
Update and enhance your competencies to provide essential immediate newborn care, including ventilation for newborns who need it. Implementing these skills has the potential to reduce preventable early neonatal mortality by up to 50%. This workshop is the updated version of Helping Babies Breathe and forms part of WHO’s Essential Newborn Care Course (2nd edition). Participants who sucessfully complete the workshop requirements will receive a certificate.
Alliance for Improvements in Midwifery Education (AIME): Developing competent midwives
Facilitator: International Confederation of Midwives, Laerdal
Language: English, French
Full Day Workshop
Explore the 2024 update of the ICM Essential Competencies for Midwifery Practice Learning Tool through a new hands on, peer-to-peer digital learning tool for midwifery students. The tool encourages students to practice their skills more often, using a safe, peer-to-peer environment, while providing midwifery teachers with flexibility and feedback on students’ progress. This workshop will introduce participants to the Learning Tool and provide an opportunity to explore how they can use it in their own teaching.
Modern contraception for midwives
Facilitator: Maternity Foundation
Language: English, French and Arabic
Half Day Workshop
Gain the knowledge and skill needed to provide modern contraceptive services using the Safe Delivery App (SDA) as a job aid. During this workshop, midwives will be introduced to SDA, focusing on different methods of contraception, and contraceptive counselling. The workshop will also feature a hands-on skills session on the insertion and removal of intrauterine contraceptive devices (IUDs).
Twinning for strong and united midwives’ associations
Facilitator: International Confederation of Midwives
Language: English, French
Half Day Workshop
Learn about how twinning can support and grow your midwives’ association through the experiences of ICM’s Twin to Win Programme participants. Twinning can help build leadership capacity of midwives, and improve the quality of midwife care offered by health systems. During this workshop, twins will share their experiences and successes, and provide the opportunity for workshop participants to start planning their own twinning project.
Quality abortion care
Facilitator: World Health Organization
Language: English and French
Full Day Workshop
Explore WHO guidelines and tools on the effective implementation of quality abortion care, including the Abortion Care Guideline and Family Planning and Comprehensive Abortion Care Toolkit for the Primary Health Workforce. Part of the workshop will focus on hands-on training of select comprehensive abortion care competencies.
Implementing the PPH Bundle: Policies, guidelines, and clinical skills
Facilitator: World Health Organization and Momentum Country and Global Leadership
Language: English and French
Full Day Workshop
Gain the knowledge and skills necessary to effectively implement the PPH Roadmap and policies through a comprehensive one-day workshop. Participants will be introduced to the PPH Roadmap and relevant policy considerations. The workshop will also include a hands-on skills session on the PPH bundle, focusing on practical applications and techniques for improving patient outcomes.
Empowering midwives through private practice
Facilitator: MSD for Mothers
Language: English, French
Full Day Workshop
Private practices enable midwives to provide personalised, high-quality care, addressing gaps in public healthcare systems. This workshop will share insights from successful private midwifery models, highlighting how they improve health outcomes and empower midwives to start their own businesses. Participants will gain practical knowledge on establishing their own practices, including navigating policy, registration, and financing challenges.
Empowering Midwives with Quality Tools to Improve PPH Prevention and Treatment
Facilitator: MSD for Mothers
Language: English
Lunch Symposium (12:30 – 13:15)
Explore how midwives in low-and middle-income countries (LMICs) can be empowered with quality tools to combat postpartum haemorrhage (PPH), the leading cause of maternal death. This session will provide an overview of the latest research, focusing on the introduction of WHO-recommended medicines. Participants will learn about the PPH roadmap, economic implications, and opportunities for midwives to lead the implementation of new treatments.
Using stories to PUSH for midwives
Facilitator: Daniela Drandic and Ana Gutierrez
Language: English and French
Stories have power when they are adapted to their audience, and told in a compelling way. This basic communications workshop will teach participants how and where to tell compelling stories about midwifery and its impact on communities. It will also help participants map and shape strategies for reaching different communications stakeholders, like women’s organisations and policymakers, to advance the profession.
Growing the network of early career midwife leaders
Facilitator: YML/EML alumni
Language: English and French
This networking meeting will provide an opportunity for early-career midwife leaders to meet, share, learn, and establish key connections.
Regional Meetings for Africa/Eastern Mediterranean
The Regional Meetings are for formal representatives (President, Vice President, Secretary,Treasurer, etc.) of ICM Member Associations only.