MOMENTUM Integrated Health Resilience

MOMENTUM Integrated Health Resilience

Life-saving maternal, newborn, and child health care in fragile settings

Led by IMA World Health and funded by the U.S. Department of State, MOMENTUM Integrated Health Resilience is a global health initiative focused on saving the lives of mothers and children in conflict and fragile settings.

MOMENTUM Integrated Health Resilience was originally launched in May 2020 as part of a suite of programs designed to holistically strengthen maternal, newborn, and child health (MNCH) worldwide. Working alongside local organizations, governments, and humanitarian and development partners, the project helped accelerate reductions in maternal, newborn, and child illness and death by increasing the capacity of host country institutions and local organizations to introduce, deliver, scale up, and sustain the use of evidence-based, quality MNCH care.

In 2025, the program refined its focus to deliver quality, integrated and life-saving health, nutrition, and WASH services to mothers and children, detect and respond to disease outbreaks, and distribute essential medicines and commodities.

Life-saving interventions include:

Providing pregnancy, emergency obstetrics, and newborn care services throughout the entire maternity journey, including antenatal, labor and delivery, and postnatal care.
Providing essential newborn care, helping babies breathe and care for possible serious bacterial infections (PSBI).
Monitoring and treating deadly diseases in children like pneumonia, diarrhea and malaria.
Preventing, diagnosing and managing moderate and severe acute malnutrition, including screening, referral to care and cooking demonstrations.
Promoting breastfeeding, infant and young child feeding (IYCF), and hygiene practices through nutrition support groups.
Addressing zero-dose and under-immunized children through the promotion of routine immunization, new vaccine introduction, emergency immunization, deworming, and insecticide-treated netting (ITN) distribution.
Supporting the logistics of last-mile delivery of life-saving vaccines to hard-to-reach areas through mobile vaccination services and conducting catch-up campaigns for hard-to-reach populations.
Strengthening health systems to be able to control, prevent, and prepare for disease outbreaks such as cholera, mpox, COVID-19, and yellow fever.