MDG5 Meshwork for Improving Maternal Health

Cordaid is a partner of the MDG5 Meshwork for Improving Maternal Health, a cross-sector, cross-disciplinary network of over thirty organizations based in Afghanistan, Sierra Leone and The Netherlands.

The purpose of the MDG5 Meshwork is to develop innovative and effective partnerships that contribute to the achievement of Millennium Development Goal 5, to improve maternal health. The partners within the MDG5 Meshwork collaborate on improving maternal health in five projects, all of them cutting across traditional boundaries between disciplines and sectors:

1. Reduction of maternal mortality in Afghanistan;
2. Reduction of maternal mortality in Sierra Leone;
3. Mother's Night, national continuation and international expansion of the concept;
4. Development of heat-stable Oxytocin;
5. Stimulating Linking & Learning between the partners and projects of the MDG5 Meshwork.