The CCCC has been awarded major grant of $467,584 for a study in Egypt, Lebanon, the occupied Palestinian territories and Syria.  The proposed research is entitled: “Assessing the acceptability, feasibility and effectiveness of a strategy for improving the quality and safety of maternal/neonatal health care in the health service contexts of four Middle Eastern countries.” The team was one of 14 out of 250 applicants invited to a Proposal Development Workshop in Geneva in October (attended by the co-Principal Investigators Jocelyn DeJong and Hyam Bashour and Dr. Mohamed Cherine from Egypt) and 7 of these were selected for funding. The research is funded by NORAD and other funders via a partnership of several WHO departments under the Implementation Research Platform managed by the Alliance For Health Policy and Systems Research