Maternal & Newborn Health
Register every pregnancy, guide every visit, and follow every birth to a safe outcome.
The Challenge
Mothers and newborns need continuous care, but gaps in follow-up let risks slip through unseen.
Care in low-connectivity areas
Home visits often happen far from any network.
Following complex care protocols
Health workers juggle many steps and danger signs.
Referrals across facilities
Mothers move between homes, clinics, and hospitals.
Enroll pregnant women and stratify by risk level
- Register pregnancies with obstetric history and reported complications
- Risk is scored on the spot, and high-risk mothers are flagged for priority follow-up
- Capture her signature and a photo of the Mother and Child Protection Card, offline
Guide every follow-up visit with the job aid right there
- Step through the follow-up form the same way at every visit
- Illustrated danger-sign job aids appear inline, so counseling does not depend on recall
- Works in the language the mother speaks, with no connection needed
Send her on to the facility the moment something looks wrong
- Raise the referral inside the visit form, not on a separate paper slip
- Record the reason so the facility knows what is coming
- The referral stays on her record, so the team can follow it to completion
See where your workers are actually reaching mothers
- Map where every worker is active and spot the areas nobody is covering
- Filter by worker, group, case type, and date range, then save the view
- Export to Excel or push live to national programs and DHIS2
Maternal and newborn health programs built on CommCare
From Guatemala to Nepal to Tajikistan, here’s what maternal and newborn programs have shipped on the platform.
TulaSalud: Maternal, newborn, and child health in one of the world’s highest maternal mortality regions
TulaSalud uses CommCare to support frontline health workers across Guatemala’s northern highlands, with guided decision support, WHO Z-scores, referral coordination, and transportation management for emergency obstetric cases. The program serves Indigenous communities where the maternal mortality rate is among the highest in the Americas.
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Jacaranda Health: Partnering with government to improve maternal health
Jacaranda Health works with Kenya’s public health system to strengthen maternal and newborn care, scaling quality improvements through government partnership.
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Suaahara II: Nutrition and maternal and newborn health services for pregnant women and children under two
USAID’s Suaahara II program uses CommCare to combine maternal-health protocols with social behavior change communication for pregnant women and children.
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Healthy Mother, Healthy Baby: digitizing maternal and child health in Tajikistan
The USAID-funded Healthy Mother, Healthy Baby Activity used CommCare to digitize maternal and child health across 12 districts of Tajikistan, feeding data into DHIS2.
Read the case studyThe maternal and newborn continuum, across every use case.
Use the power of CommCare to run maternal and newborn health programs end to end, across every use case.
One platform, every workflow.
From service delivery and monitoring to research and engagement, the same platform adapts to whatever your maternal and newborn health program needs. Pick a use case to see how it tunes.
- No-code workflows for frontline teams
- Offline-first, multi-language, multi-country
- Real-time dashboards and donor-ready reporting