By Trude Thommesen, Board Member, Northern European Region, International Confederation of Midwives on 05 May 2021
Dear midwives, colleagues and friends, Happy International Day of the Midwife! Today we will once again put midwifery and women's sexual reproductive health and rights on the global agenda.
By Hermione Jackson, Digital Midwife Project Advisor on 05 May 2021
Today marks International Day of the Midwife and this year’s theme is Follow the data: invest in midwives. We know maternity data is imperative to the care we provide. Not only is it important to call for more investment from the Government to ...
By Joy Kemp, Professional Advisor Global on 08 March 2021
Midwives’ voices are often absent from international, national or local policy dialogue. In Bangladesh, where midwifery is a new profession and all midwives are young women and therefore doubly disadvantaged because of their age and gender, ...
By Rosie Jenks, newly qualified midwife on 26 September 2019
In August I was privileged enough to undertake a two day ‘shadowing’ placement with Tara Shoham (Global Projects Officer) at the RCM headquarters in London. I was really interested in the work of the Global Team, having briefly chatted to Joy ...
By Joy Kemp and Tara Shoham on 08 July 2019
The RCM has been working in a twinning partnership with the Bangladesh Midwifery Society (BMS) since July 2017. The primary purpose of the twinning project is to develop BMS’ organisational capacity, so that they can better represent midwives ...
By Joy Kemp on 05 June 2019
Women Deliver is the world’s largest conference on gender equality and the health, rights and wellbeing of girls and women. Occurring every three years, the theme of #WD2019 is ‘Power, Progress and Change’ or, put differently, power, and how ...
By Nafiza Anwar on 22 May 2019
After finding out that the RCM were involved with a Twinning project in Bangladesh it really ignited my desire to be able to support and give something back to my ethnic origins. After expressing my interest to the RCM I was recruited as a volunteer ...
By Tara Shoham on 20 March 2019
Reflecting on my first few months as a Global Projects Officer at the RCM, I can safely say that it has been both an exciting and challenging rollercoaster!
on 08 March 2019
To mark International Women’s Day, the Global Team at RCM would like to showcase some of the incredible, young women who are paving the way for midwifery in Bangladesh.
By Gill Walton on 10 December 2018
This is my last day in Uganda, my first visit to Africa. My head is filled with thoughts and reflections -in a jumbled noisy way just like the street markets and the Kampala traffic!