Technical Guidelines and Standards

• WHO recommendations on maternal and newborn care for a positive postnatal experience. WHO, 2022.
• Standards for improving the quality of care for small and sick newborns in health facilities. WHO, 2020.
• Quick reference for the Minimum Initial Service Package (MISP) for Sexual and Reproductive Health (SRH). IAWG, 2019.
• Inter-Agency field manual on reproductive health in humanitarian settings. IAWG, 2018.
• WHO recommendations on newborn health. WHO, 2017.
• WHO recommendations: intrapartum care for a positive childbirth experience. WHO, 2018.
• WHO recommendations on antenatal care for a positive pregnancy experience. WHO, 2016.
• Guideline: managing possible serious bacterial infection in young infants when referral is not feasible. WHO, 2015.
• WHO recommendations on interventions to improve preterm birth outcomes. WHO, 2015.
• Guidelines on basic newborn resuscitation. WHO, 2012.
• WHO recommendations: optimizing health worker roles to improve access to key maternal and newborn health interventions through task shifting. WHO, 2012.
• High Impact Practice - Kangaroo Mother Care. UNHCR, 2021.
• Caring for newborns and children in the community. WHO, 2015.
• Antenatal care recommendations adaptation toolkit. WHO, 2020.
• Programmatic guidance for sexual and reproductive health in humanitarian and fragile settings during COVID-19 pandemic. IAWG, 2020.
• Community case management in humanitarian settings: guidelines for humanitarian workers. UNICEF and USAID, 2019.
• Operational guidelines on improving newborn health in refugee operations. UNHCR, 2014.

Operational guidance

• Inter-Agency field manual on reproductive health in humanitarian settings. IAWG, 2018.
• WHO recommendations: optimizing health worker roles to improve access to key maternal and newborn health interventions through task shifting. WHO, 2012.
• High Impact Practice - Kangaroo Mother Care. UNHCR, 2021.
• Antenatal care recommendations adaptation toolkit. WHO, 2020.
• Programmatic guidance for sexual and reproductive health in humanitarian and fragile settings during COVID-19 pandemic. IAWG, 2020.
• Community case management in humanitarian settings: guidelines for humanitarian workers. UNICEF and USAID, 2019.
• Operational guidelines on improving newborn health in refugee operations. UNHCR, 2014.
• Survive and thrive: transforming care for every small and sick newborn. WHO, 2019.
• Surviving day one: caring for mothers and newborns in humanitarian emergencies on the day of childbirth. IAWG, 2019.

Commodities and supplies manuals/guidelines

• Inter-Agency field manual on reproductive health in humanitarian settings. IAWG, 2018.

Assessment and Implementation Tools

• Guideline: managing possible serious bacterial infection in young infants when referral is not feasible. WHO, 2015.
• High Impact Practice - Kangaroo Mother Care. UNHCR, 2021.
• Essential steps for improving newborn survival. Global Health Learning Center, 2017.

Training tools and resources

• ENC now! Helping Mothers and Babies Survive, Laerdal Global Health, AAP, and Jhpiego, .
• Basic Emergency Obstetric and Newborn Care (BEmONC) in crisis settings, select signal functions outreach refresher training. IAWG, 2021.
• Trainings and tools for improving newborn health in humanitarian settings. Save the Children, Laerdal Global Health, Maternity Foundation, 2020.
• Minimum Initial Service Package (MISP) for reproductive health in crisis situations: a distance learning module. WRC, 2019.
• Essential steps for improving newborn survival. Global Health Learning Center, 2017.
• Caring for newborns and children in the community. WHO, 2015.
• Threatened preterm birth care: improving survival for preterm infants. Helping Mothers Survive, .

Data and estimates

• Essential steps for improving newborn survival. Global Health Learning Center, 2017.
• Levels and trends in child mortality: report 2021. UN Inter-agency Group for Child Morality Estimation. UNICEF; WHO; World Bank Group; United Nations, 2021.
• A neglected tragedy: the global burden of stillbirths. United Nations Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation. UNICEF, 2020.
• Survive and thrive: transforming care for every small and sick newborn. WHO, 2019.
• Maternal and newborn health coverage. UNICEF, 2021.
• Stillbirth estimates. UNIGME, 2020.
• UNICEF/WHO database on SDG 3.1.2 skilled attendance at birth. UNICEF, 2021.
• Can available interventions end preventable deaths in mothers, newborn babies, and stillbirths, and at what cost? Bhutta ZA, Das JK, Bahl R, et al. Lancet. 2014, 384(9940):347-70, 2014.
• Ending Preventable Maternal Mortality (EPMM): a renewed focus for improving maternal and newborn health and wellbeing. WHO, 2021.
• Committing to child survival: a promise renewed progress report. UNICEF, 2015.

Job aids

• Threatened preterm birth care: improving survival for preterm infants. Helping Mothers Survive, .

Articles

• Antenatal care recommendations adaptation toolkit. WHO, 2020.
• Lancet series on women’s and children’s health in conflict settings. BRANCH Consortium, 2021.
• Essential newborn care practice at four primary health facilities in conflict affected areas of Bossaso, Somalia: a cross-sectional study. Amsalu R. Morris C. Chukwumalu K., et al. Conflict and Health, 2019.
• Newborns in crisis: an outline of neonatal ethical dilemmas in humanitarian medicine. Schnall J. Hayden D. Wilkinson D. Dev World Bioeth, 2019.
• Can available interventions end preventable deaths in mothers, newborn babies, and stillbirths, and at what cost? Bhutta ZA, Das JK, Bahl R, et al. Lancet. 2014, 384(9940):347-70, 2014.

Advocacy and Comms

• Levels and trends in child mortality: report 2021. UN Inter-agency Group for Child Morality Estimation. UNICEF; WHO; World Bank Group; United Nations, 2021.
• A neglected tragedy: the global burden of stillbirths. United Nations Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation. UNICEF, 2020.
• Survive and thrive: transforming care for every small and sick newborn. WHO, 2019.
• Maternal and newborn health coverage. UNICEF, 2021.
• Stillbirth estimates. UNIGME, 2020.
• UNICEF/WHO database on SDG 3.1.2 skilled attendance at birth. UNICEF, 2021.
• Lancet series on women’s and children’s health in conflict settings. BRANCH Consortium, 2021.
• Essential newborn care practice at four primary health facilities in conflict affected areas of Bossaso, Somalia: a cross-sectional study. Amsalu R. Morris C. Chukwumalu K., et al. Conflict and Health, 2019.
• Newborns in crisis: an outline of neonatal ethical dilemmas in humanitarian medicine. Schnall J. Hayden D. Wilkinson D. Dev World Bioeth, 2019.
• Can available interventions end preventable deaths in mothers, newborn babies, and stillbirths, and at what cost? Bhutta ZA, Das JK, Bahl R, et al. Lancet. 2014, 384(9940):347-70, 2014.
• Ending Preventable Maternal Mortality (EPMM): a renewed focus for improving maternal and newborn health and wellbeing. WHO, 2021.
• Surviving day one: caring for mothers and newborns in humanitarian emergencies on the day of childbirth. IAWG, 2019.
• Committing to child survival: a promise renewed progress report. UNICEF, 2015.

Reports and briefs

• Survive and thrive: transforming care for every small and sick newborn. WHO, 2019.
• Ending Preventable Maternal Mortality (EPMM): a renewed focus for improving maternal and newborn health and wellbeing. WHO, 2021.
• Surviving day one: caring for mothers and newborns in humanitarian emergencies on the day of childbirth. IAWG, 2019.
• Committing to child survival: a promise renewed progress report. UNICEF, 2015.