Practical, systems-level support for maternal-newborn, perinatal, and midwifery health systems.

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What We Offer

Civitas supports organizations working to strengthen the policies, programs, services, funding models, partnerships, and implementation conditions that shape care.

Our services are designed to help clients move from complexity to clarity — and from strategy to meaningful, sustainable action.

We offer flexible advisory, strategy, policy, facilitation, and implementation support across maternal-newborn, perinatal, and midwifery systems.

Explore the service areas below to learn more about the types of support available within each category.

  • This may include provincial, regional, national, or organizational strategies; system reviews; needs assessments; strategic roadmaps; implementation plans; and recommendations for strengthening services, programs, and partnerships.

  • This work may include developing midwifery system strategies, supporting funding and policy asks, advising on models of care, strengthening integration with health systems, and supporting the growth of sustainable midwifery services.

  • This may include policy analysis, program design, funding strategy, briefing materials, business cases, environmental scans, jurisdictional reviews, and recommendations to support decision-making and investment.

  • This may include community-based care models, integrated team-based approaches, rural and remote service planning, care pathways, implementation considerations, and service redesign.

  • This may include workforce planning, implementation roadmaps, readiness assessments, change management support, role and scope analysis, stakeholder engagement, and practical tools to support system change.

  • This work is grounded in relationship, cultural safety, recognition of Indigenous self-determination, and the understanding that Indigenous communities must lead the priorities, solutions, and systems intended to serve them.

    Civitas does not speak for Indigenous communities. We support processes, planning, policy, program development, and implementation in ways that centre Indigenous leadership and community priorities.

  • This may include strategy, policy, program development, service design, implementation support, and advisory work for NGOs, international organizations, funders, and partners working to strengthen maternal-newborn and midwifery systems globally.

    This work may be especially useful where partners are navigating differences in policy, governance, funding, workforce, service delivery, culture, language, geography, and implementation context.

Work With Civitas

Civitas offers flexible advisory, strategy, policy, facilitation, research, and implementation support across maternal-newborn, perinatal, and midwifery systems. Engagements may be focused, short-term, or part of a longer planning or implementation process.

• Systems reviews and needs assessments
• Maternal-newborn and perinatal strategy development
• Midwifery systems strengthening plans
• Research, reports, scans, and synthesis to deepen understanding and identify what is needed next
• Models of care and service redesign

Strategy, Systems & Research

• Policy, program, and funding reviews
• Funding proposals, business cases, and briefing materials
• Governance and accountability frameworks
• Decision-support tools and recommendations
• Implementation roadmaps and practical tools for action

Policy, Funding & Governance

Engagement, Implementation & Advisory

• Workforce and implementation planning
• Engagement design and facilitation
• Indigenous-led maternal health systems support, where invited and appropriate
• International and cross-cultural systems advisory
• Strategic advisory support for complex maternal-newborn, perinatal, and midwifery systems work

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Our Process

Listen & Understand

We begin by learning about your context, priorities, relationships, constraints, and goals.

Map the System

We help clarify the policies, programs, people, funding, workforce, governance, and service delivery factors shaping the issue.

Align Priorities

We help bring evidence, community priorities, clinical realities, system goals, and partner perspectives into clearer alignment.

Design Practical Solutions

We develop strategies, recommendations, tools, and implementation pathways that are tailored to context and realistic to sustain.

Support Action & Adaptation

We help clients move from planning to implementation, while creating space to learn, adapt, and strengthen impact over time.

Services Designed For Real-World Implementation

Our services are designed to help clients clarify priorities, align partners, strengthen systems, and move from planning to practical action. Each engagement is shaped by the client’s context, goals, relationships, and implementation realities.

Let’s Work Together

Strengthening systems starts with understanding where you are and where you want to go.

Whether you are developing a strategy, strengthening midwifery systems, redesigning services, aligning partners, preparing a funding case, or supporting implementation, Civitas can help clarify the path forward.

We would be pleased to learn more about your work and explore how we may be able to support your next step.