What Plan International is doing
Plan International and local partners have and continue to help train nurses, midwives, and other health workers, such as Madam Praise, on a large diversity of important skills, including prenatal care, management of childhood and neonatal illnesses, emergency obstetric and neonatal care, provision of sexual and reproductive services and family planning counseling. This empowers health workers to adapt their attitudes and behaviours to provide respectful care to their patients.
To complement the training, knowledge and information that health workers receive, Plan International Canada, in collaboration with local partners, is also supporting the refurbishment of health centers to increase privacy, working with health centers to strengthen referral systems for women and adolescents and improving resources for transportation and communication around health centers.
"This has helped us forge a better relationship with the community members and leaders,"" says the head of one Ghanaian health centre about the training on gender-responsive services, equipment and medicine provided by Plan International projects and partners. "My facility can now organize three outreach sessions the same day." The centre’s staff also visits health facilities and communities in the region.