Growing Partnerships: Collaborative Action and Co-Creation of Evidence to Transform Care of Infants and Mothers

To help plan and deliver frontline care, the MAMI Global Network developed the MAMI Care Pathway Package, an integrated care pathway approach for adaptation to country needs and services across fragile, conflict-affected, and development contexts. Quality evidence on this approach is urgently needed across multiple settings. Co-creation of evidence with multiple stakeholders and country leadership is critical to ensure evidence is driven by country agendas and plans for scalable and sustainable care within government systems and structures.   

Country conversations will showcase experiences from two countries, Ethiopia and India, on utilising cross-disciplinary and multi-level partnerships to co-create evidence around the management of small and nutritionally at-risk infants under 6 months and their mothers (MAMI) to inform national and international policy and service development.

A brief introduction by the MAMI Global Network co-chairs (ENN and LSHTM) will set the scene.  Following country conversations with Ethiopia and India, a plenary session will provide time for questions to the panellists, beginning with a few words from WHO on evidence to policy. A reflection from UNICEF will then describe UNICEF’s strategic plans on MAMI and share our collective asks for MAMI-sensitive N4G commitments.