Implementation resources: MAMI Care Pathway Package (2021, v3)
A set of practical resources to frame an integrated care pathway approach for at-risk mother-infant pairs to guide context-specific implementation and support operationalisation of WHO guidance for wasting. Co-created by members of the MAMI Global Network from multidisciplinary backgrounds. Available in French, Spanish, Arabic, Amharic and Afan Oromo:
MAMI Care Pathway explanatory videos
Please feel free to share any adaptations to mami@ennonline.net
Part 1: MAMI Care Pathway Package Overview
Part 2: Contents of the MAMI Care Pathway Package
MAMI Technical work – priority areas
ENN, LSHTM and the Steering Committee consult on priority areas for action. Current areas include:
- Learning by Doing studies: Various agencies are writing up country experiences of using MAMI tools and initiatives. ENN has developed a research tool for this work and published experiences in Pakistan, South Sudan and Yemen.
- Policy review: Scoping all documents relevant to under six months and their mothers in Invisible pursuit: global policy guidance on care of vulnerable infants under 6 months and their mothers.
- Feeding difficulties and disability: We try to keep a focus on infants under six months across evidence, practice and policy. See Identifying and supporting infants under 6-months with feeding difficulties and disabilities: an overview of resources and evidence (disponible en francais).
- Support to WHO 2023 wasting guidelines uptake: we are an active part of sub working groups and co-chair the group on under 6 months.
- Mothers in MAMI: coming in 2025, we are supporting research and policy work to promote attention to mothers and potential mothers (adolescents) including wellbeing and relaxation.
- MUAC in infants under six months: we have supported documentation of work around use of a MultiMUAC tape for measuring both infants and their mothers.
Practical MAMI support
- Join the MAMI Implementers’ Group (global) and / or the MAMI en pratique group (regional, francophone) for lively online peer-to-peer discussions, shared learning and technical updates. Write to mami@ennonline.net
- En-net - Active online community forum where health and nutrition practitioners and researchers can post questions or offer technical solutions for challenges and opportunities faced around MAMI.
- MAMI technical support for MAMI uptake (remote and short-term in-country) is provided under the technical arm of the Global Nutrition Cluster (GNC). Request support from the GNC.
Guides and training materials
Members of the MAMI Global Network have adapted or developed materials and resources in different contexts which may help others, that are shared here. If you have resources to share, let us know at: mami@ennonline.net.
Examples include:
- MAMI Summary (ENN, 2023)
- MAMI Training Package for frontline healthcare workers (Save the Children, 2023)
- Guidance note to MAMI monitoring, evaluation, accountability and learning tools (Save the Children, 2022)
- COVID-19 and MAMI adaptations: WHO/UNICEF guidance (2020); Information note (Wasting Thematic Group, Global Alliance 2021); MAMI adaptations in the context of COVID-19 and posters (Goal, 2020).
