Ensuring Quality in Respectful Maternity Care

The Department of Nursing of the Cyprus University of Technology (TEPAK) organises, in collaboration with Birth Forward and the Organisation for European Programmes and Cultural Relations (OEPCR), the second informative session and workshop titled “ Ensuring Quality in Respectful Maternity Care”, within the framework of the CERV-funded projects “RESPECT – Toward a culture of Respectful Maternity Care (RMC): Enhancing Provider-Client Shared Decision Making and Informed Choice” and RESPECTWATCH – “Developing an Advocacy Strategy and Watchdog Mechanisms to ensure Respectful Maternity Care (RMC) in Cyprus”.

Date and time: Thursday, 26 September 2024, 9:00 – 16:30

Location: RED Amphitheatre, University of Nicosia, 46 Makedonitissas Avenue, Engomi, 3417 Nicosia

The event’s morning session includes speeches and panel discussions on maternity care clinical practices and quality standards, patients’ rights and maternity care services quality assurance mechanisms. The afternoon session includes workshops and discussions within the topics covered by the RESPECT and RespectWATCH CERV-funded projects.

The RESPECT project aims to take local action towards promoting a culture of RESPECT in maternity-child health care services according to the principles of the World Health Organisation’s framework and White Ribbon Alliance’s Charter of Rights for Respectful Maternity Care (RMC).

The RespectWATCH project addresses the need for systematic monitoring and watchdog procedures for maternity care violations. The overall objective of the project is to establish a sustainable National Advocacy and Watchdog mechanism that will enable BF and its allies to monitor to what extent perinatal care is delivered with respect, involving the woman-client as an active agent in the process. The RespectWATCH is co-funded through the BUILD project (cascading grants CERV co-funded project) which is coordinated by the Bodossaki Foundation (Greece) and the NGO Support Centre (Cyprus).

Since the event is held within the framework of two CERV-funded projects, the Organisation for European Programmes and Cultural Relations, as the CERV Cyprus National Contact Point, will address the event highlighting the valuable contribution of the “Citizens, Equality, Rights and Values (CERV)” EU programme in funding projects that aim to bring positive changes in society and more specifically in the field of maternity and healthcare services.

For registering, please follow the link here.

For more information, please contact Mrs Paraskevi Kinni at paraskevi.kinni@cut.ac.cy