Commitment title:

Accelerating efforts to realizing zero preventable maternal death

Commitment description:

a) We commit to revitalise the Primary Health Care (PHC) system by building, reorienting and realigning the health system towards Universal Health Coverage (UHC) by 2025

b) We commit to train and deploy 500 midwives to service delivery points by 2025

c)We commit to strengthen all health facilities to provide Basic Emergency Obstetric and Neonatal Care (BEmONC) and 6 health facilities to provide quality Comprehensive Emergency Obstetric and Neonatal Care (CEmONC) services by 2023.

d) We commit to increase the proportion of births attended by skilled attendants from 57% to 80% by 2022 through a rigorous community-based campaign to increase the uptake SRH services

e) We commit to the provision of basic lifesaving equipment, supply services, medicines to all health facilities for maternal and new-born services by 2025

Mode of engagement:
  • Programmatic action
    Improve service delivery through advocacy, capacity building and provision of equipment and supplies
Commitment to be actioned in: Gambia
Submitted from: global
Submitted by
National Population Commission Secretariat
Thematic area
Achieve universal access to sexual and reproductive health as a part of universal health coverage (UHC)
Commitment category

(3) Zero preventable maternal deaths and maternal morbidities, such as obstetric fistulas, by, inter alia, integrating a comprehensive package of sexual and reproductive health interventions, including access to safe abortion to the full extent of the law, measures for preventing and avoiding unsafe abortions, and for the provision of post-abortion care, into national UHC strategies, policies and programmes, and to protect and ensure all individuals’ right to bodily integrity, autonomy and reproductive rights, and to provide access to essential services in support of these rights.