Maternal, Child and Community Health

The maternal, child and community health (MCCH) division has the mandate to coordinate all health interventions and initiatives related to maternal and child health in Rwanda. This includes the activities of community health workers, reproductive health and gender-based violence.

The department is responsible for developing policies and guidelines on reproductive, maternal, newborn, child and adolescent health (MNCAH), and overseeing their implementation through capacity building, mentoring, monitoring and evaluation of health facilities and community health interventions.

We coordinate maternal and child health activities and interventions in health facilities through the sub-programmes of maternal and newborn Health, child health, family planning, gender based violence, death audit programme, mentorship programme and monitoring and evaluation.

We coordinate immunisation activities in Rwanda, including routine immunisation, vaccines and the vaccine supply chain.

We coordinate community health programmes where we oversee maternal and child health activities and interventions carried out in villages by community health workers under the following sub-programmes: maternal and child, community health, nutrition services, adolescent sexual and reproductive health, community-based provision of family planning, and commodity supply chain.

No woman should die giving life. Let’s all work for safe pregnancies, safe deliveries and safe childhoods.

Dr Aline Uwimana
Division Manager
Email : aline.uwimana@rbc.gov.rw