Maternal & Neonatal Program Effort Index

MNPI: Maternal and Neonatal Program Effort Index

Worldwide, over 500,000 women and girls die of complications related to pregnancy and childbirth each year. The tragedy - and opportunity - is that most of these deaths can be prevented with cost-effective health care services.

POLICY's MNPI series provides country-specific data on maternal and neonatal health programs in more than 30 developing countries. Based on a study conducted by the Futures Group and funded through the MEASURE Evaluation Project, the MNPI is a tool that can be used to:

Assess current health care services;
Identify program strengths and weaknesses;
Plan strategies to address deficiencies;
Encourage political and popular support for appropriate action; and
Track progress over time.

Using a tested methodology for rating programs and services, reproductive health experts rated more than 80 aspects of maternal and neonatal health programs. The MNPI country briefs are currently being used in training workshops to build the capacity of midwives to advocate for improved maternal and neonatal health programs. The briefs are also being used in policy dialogue venues to raise awareness of maternal health issues and help policymakers and program managers identify strategies for reducing maternal morbidity and mortality.

MNPI Interactive

Since the first round of the MNPI was completed in 1999, the data collected through the Index have been used effectively to advocate for improvements in maternal and neonatal health services. To further encourage the use of this rich data set, the MNPI scores for each of the three rounds (1999, 2002, and 2005) have been put into an interactive format that enables the user to review and analyze the information, and prepare it for presentations in ways that best support the advocacy goals in question.
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Click on the links below to download country briefs. Please check back periodically as more country briefs are added.

Altai Krai Oblast (Russian)	Bangladesh
Bangladesh (2002)	Bangladesh (2005)
Benin (French)	Benin (2005)
Bolivia (Spanish)	Bolivia (2005)
Burkina Faso (2002) (French)	Burkina Faso (2005)
Cambodia	Cambodia (2005)
Cameroon (2005)	Chad (2005)
China (2005)	Congo (2005)
Cote D'Ivoire (2005)	Dominican Republic (2005)
Ecuador (Spanish)	Ecuador (2005)
Egypt	Egypt (2002)
Egypt (2005)	El Salvador (2005)
Ethiopia	Ethiopia (2002)
Ethiopia (2005)	Ghana
Ghana (2002)	Ghana (2005)
Guatemala	Guatemala (2005)
Guinea (French)	Haiti (French)
Haiti (2002)	Haiti (2005)
Honduras (2005)	India (2005)
Indonesia	Indonesia (2005)
Jamaica	Jordan (2005)
Kenya	Kenya (2005)
Khabarovsk Krai Oblast (Russian)	Madagascar (2005)
Malawi	Malawi (2005)
Mali (French)	Mali (2005)
Mauritania (2005)	Mexico
Mexico (2005)	Morocco (2005)
Mozambique (2005)	Myanmar (2005)
Nepal	Nepal (2005)
Nicaragua (2005)	Niger (2005)
Nigeria	Nigeria (2005)
Pakistan (2005)	Panama (2005)
Paraguay (Spanish)	Paraguay (2005)
Perm Oblast (Russian)	Peru
Peru (2005)	Philippines
Philippines (2005)	Rwanda (2005)
Senegal (French)	Senegal (2002)
Senegal (2005)	Six Regions in Russia
South Africa	SouthAfrica (2005)
Tanzania	Tanzania (2005)
Tomsk Oblast (Russian)	Tver Oblast (Russian)
Uganda	Uganda (2002 Survey)
Uganda (2005)	Ukraine (2002 Survey)
Veronezh Oblast (Russian)	Vietnam
VietNam (2005)	Yemen (2005)
Zambia	Zambia (2005)
Zimbabwe	Zimbabwe (2005)