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Research Paper

Rapid assessment of pre-service midwifery education in conflict settings: a mixed-methods study in Somalia and northeast Nigeria

Emilia Iwu, Shatha Elnakib, Hawa Abdullahi, Rejoice Helma Abimiku, Charity Maina, Asia Mohamed, Kazeem Olalekan Ayodeji, George Odonye, Rifkatu Sunday, Maryan Abdulkadir Ahmed, Mohamed Ahmed Omar, Abdirisak A. Dalmar, Emilie Grant, Hannah Tappis · 2025

Rapid assessment of pre-service midwifery education in conflict settings: a mixed-methods study in Somalia and northeast Nigeria

Abstract

This study assessed the extent to which midwifery pre-service education programmes meet national and global standards, and explored how conflict affects pre-service midwifery education in Yobe State, Nigeria and the Banaadir and Galgaduud regions of Somalia. A rapid assessment was conducted in two midwifery education programmes in Yobe State and seven purposively selected programmes in Somalia, using an adapted Midwifery Education Rapid Assessment Tool, with data collected through interviews with programme leadership, teachers, students and clinical preceptors.

Published in Human Resources for Health (2025), Volume 23, Article 6. SORDI is listed among the author affiliations as the Somali Research and Development Institute, Mogadishu, Somalia. Conducted in partnership with the Johns Hopkins Center for Humanitarian Health, the Institute of Human Virology Nigeria (IHVN), and Rutgers University School of Nursing, through the EQUAL research consortium.

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