Year of establishment
1988
Year of Registration
1993
Type of organization
Local professional association
Branch Offices
None
Vision of the organization
- To reduce the mortality rate of mothers
- To reduce the causes of Fistula cases
- To prevent White-Ribbon Alliance
General objective
- To decrease maternal mortality
- To decrease maternal morbidity
Specific objectives
- Upgrade member midwives on current theories
by organizing study days
- Give refresher courses for midwives and
traditional birth attendants
- Produce midwives magazine
- Participate in researches on maternal mortality
and morbidity
- Celebrate international day of midwives
- Attend and participate in several workshops
at a national and international level
- Participate as a task force member on safe-mother-hood
initiation
- Promote white-ribbon alliance
Strategy
- To promote reproductive health for adolescents
- To reach the inaccessible mothers
up to the grass- root- level through TBA's
- To promote White Ribbon Alliance to
reduce maternal and neo-natal mortality & morbidity
Activities of the Organization
- Organize study days on current theories
- Attend the Trianal congress of the
International Confederation of Midwives (ICM)
- Produce midwives magazine
- Arrange refresher courses
- Celebrate International Days of Midwives
- Participate in Local and International
workshops
- Participate in task forces to prompt
safe-mother-hood
- Conduct follow-up and supportive supervision
of midwives in the region
Publication
Ethiopian Midwives Magazine
Beneficiaries
862 member midwives throughout Ethiopia
Plan of Expansion
- Program expansio
- To promote safe-motherhood initiation
- To prevent cause of fistula
- To upgrade the skill of Junior-midwives
Address
Ethiopian Nurse Midwives Association
(ENMA)
Tel: 251-1-183498
Fax:251-1-632850
Address: P.O. box 1410
Email:eseyoum@policyproject.com
or eleni36@hotmail.com
Contact person :Sister
Kiros Kebede (President)
Address of the Organization:
Ministry of Health 2nd floor, Room No. 204
Addis Ababa,Ethiopia
