Johnson & Johnson Indonesia and the Indonesian Midwives Association (IBI): Improving the Quality of Maternal and Child Health Services in Indonesia

Johnson & Johnson Indonesia, PT (J&J) and the Indonesian Midwives Association (Ikatan Bidan Indonesia or IBI) have partnered since 2006 to improve the quality of services provided by private-sector midwives in Indonesia through the Bidan Delima (BD) program.2  IBI is a nationwide association of midwives that includes both government and private-sector midwives.  The BD program is designed to standardize and improve the quality of services provided by private-sector midwives who comprise 30% of the more than 130,000 IBI midwives in Indonesia.

Since 2006, the partnership has supported training for over 2,000 private-sector midwives, produced guidelines and other educational materials on how to provide maternal and child health services and on how to monitor and evaluate services.  With the active involvement of J&J, IBI monitors and evaluates activities and their impact on maternal and child health. The program has improved the quality of services among midwives participating in the program. The partners see their mutual commitment to improving maternal and child health as key to the success of their partnership. They also share a mutual commitment to help the BD program reach all provinces and standardize a level of service quality not only for private sector midwives, the focus of their partnership, but for public midwives as well.