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International Midwife Assistance (IMA)

IMA offers general medical care, prenatal, vaccination, family planning services and a birth center, to help the poorest of the poor in the Teso region of Uganda.

IMA midwives train local practitioners provide quality prenatal and birth services, as well as general medical care, to increasing numbers of women and children from surrounding poor communities. Through these services, women receive the assistance they need to help ensure safe, healthy pregnancies. The clinic staff also conducts weekly mobile outreach clinics to remote rural areas.

Our birth center allows us to offer special assistance to women during childbirth, increasing the capacity to ensure safe delivery and quick and efficient response to complications during childbirth. Feasible low-cost health interventions are all that is needed to save countless lives of women and babies in Uganda.

For more information, visit
www.midwifeassist.org

International Midwife Assistance and
BoldeReach are 501(c)(3)
non-profit organizations

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UAF & BoldeReach

2009 Update from

Urgent Action Fund for Women's Human Rights

After a decade of networking, outreach, research and advocacy, Urgent Action Fund for Women’s Human Rights (UAF) is now poised to step-up our support of women human rights defenders around the world to greater levels than ever before.  The support of BoldeReach has helped deepen and expand UAF’s Rapid Response Grantmaking Program for women human rights defenders operating in high-risk environments throughout the world.

In 2008, Urgent Action Fund’s Rapid Response Grantmaking Program took a huge leap forward.  The Program experienced unprecedented growth last year with a total of 124 grants – 55% more than any previous year! We also marked another milestone just this May – the highest number of grants disbursed in one month: 17.  We believe this is due to a combination of factors, both positive and negative, that began emerging in late 2007.  On the one hand, UAF’s efforts to strategically raise its visibility among potential grantees – as well as colleagues who refer grantees – have clearly been successful in exposing more women’s groups to UAF as a potential funder.  In 2008, we conducted electronic outreach to women activists in a number of regions in the world including Colombia, the Occupied Territories, Georgia, India, and Mongolia.  We have also spent several years building the capacity of the grants program, including the addition of grants and other staff that are fluent in at least one language other than English.  At the same time, physical attacks against UAF grantees appear to be becoming more severe and less accountable. We have seen conflicts and their consequences on women and their families intensify in areas such as Burma, Philippines, Colombia, Gaza, Nicaragua and elsewhere, making the need for Rapid Response Grants greater than ever...more - read the full report.

See a full list of grants to women activists in 2009.