Instituto de Liderazgo Simone de Beauvoir

The Instituto de Liderazgo Simone de Beauvoir (Simone de Beauvoir Leadership Institute, ILSB) is a training center for Mexican women in positions of leadership and emerging leaders. The project helps foster and strengthen a movement of student and practicing midwives to promote midwifery in Mexico. ILSB organizes workshops for midwives on intercultural communications, negotiation, economics, public policy, gender and power relationships, leadership, and team and movement building. Through expanding these skills, ILSB helps enhance movement building and cohesion across the field.

The Instituto de Liderazgo Simone de Beauvoir (Simone de Beauvoir Leadership Institute, ILSB) is a training center for Mexican women in positions of leadership and emerging leaders. This project helps foster and strengthen a movement of midwifery students and practitioners to promote midwifery in Mexico. Through forums, retreats, and trainings on intercultural communications, negotiation, economics, public policy, gender and power relationships, leadership, and team and movement building, ILSB is enhancing movement building and cohesion in the midwifery field. 

This grant will improve indigenous women’s access to maternal and reproductive health services through implementation of culturally sensitive policies at the municipal level. Indigenous women leaders in selected municipalities of five Mexican states will be trained in leadership skills and accountability techniques to become advocates of better women’s maternal and reproductive health policies in their communities.

To strengthen community responses for safe motherhood in conjunction with Municipal Women's Institutes in Chiapas, Guerrero, and Oaxaca (over three years).

To integrate maternal health promotion strategies into the public municipal women's institutes in three states, Chiapas, Guerrero and Oaxaca.