Respectful Maternity Care and Social Accountability

This brief is intended for the Respectful Maternity Care (RMC) and the social accountability practitioner and research communities. Though these two fields are natural allies, there are few formal efforts to integrate the two program areas. The brief provides background on each field and suggests how these two communities can work together to advance social accountability for respectful maternity care. We suggest ways that RMC practitioners could integrate lessons learned from social accountability into existing programs and vice versa.