Monitoring Birth Preparedness and Complication Readiness: Tools and Indicators for Maternal and Newborn Health Programs

This manual provides guidance in assessing and monitoring safe motherhood programs that intervene at multiple levels. It establishes a set of indicatos, called a Birth Preparedness and Complication Readiness (BP/CR) Index, for each of six levels: the individual woman, her family (husband/partner), the community, the health facility, the provider, and the policymaker.