USAID Grant

Grant contracts, amendments and evaluations; correspondence with grant and Project AID monitors, and summary budget reports.

1971 - 1980

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The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) provided the first grant to the ICM in 1971 (with additional support from HEW) under the project title Midwife Promotion and Support for Family Planning , for the first Working Party and to partially support the 1972 ICM Congress. After this Congress, a three year grant was awarded by USAID for the ICM/USAID Project: Specific Support Grant No. AID/csd-3411. The grant was for a programme of regional working parties in less developed countries (LDCs), with the cooperation of FIGO. The purpose of the working parties was to promote the concept of family planning (FP) as a midwifery responsibility under the theme Expanded Role of the Midwife. The grant provided for the ICM to conduct four or five regional working parties in which local midwives and doctors would carry out a needs analysis regarding local FP services, and develop recommendations for training midwives in FP. In March 1975, a new USAID grant agreement provided funds for a further two years and a second extension carried the Project to the end of March 1978. The grant enabled premises and additional staff, and in the first 4 years the emphasis of the Project was on maternal and child health (MCH) and FP programmes; the final two years focused on training workshops, including Traditional Birth Attendants (TBAs) as well as trained midwives. At the ICMs International Congress in Jerusalem, September 1978, a resolution was passed to appoint a Liaison Officer to coordinate and lead the Project, in continued cooperation with FIGO. In August 1979 a three month extension period was granted to complete Project activities and develop a new proposal for a grant to continue the Project's work.

In September 1979, a three month extension period was granted to complete activities; however, the USAID grant was terminated at the end of 1979 and resulted in the cessation of all Project activities from 31 January 1980.