NEST Model

Neonatal Essentials for Survival and Thriving

NEST Model

Neonatal Essentials for Survival and Thriving

Neonatal Mortality Problem

Problem

Still today, 6,300 newborns die every day.

Critical disparities in neonatal care persist across sub-Saharan Africa, where millions of newborn lives are at risk each year due to inadequate medical resources and systemic challenges.

Neonatal Care

Solution

75% of these deaths are preventable.

The NEST Model offers a comprehensive, sustainable approach to address this urgent challenge. It aims to create an effective, context-adapted roadmap to improve neonatal survival and long-term well-being across sub-Saharan Africa.

Newborn Health

Improving access
to neonatal care
in sub-Saharan Africa

The NEST Model aims to reduce neonatal mortality (0-28 days), particularly of premature, low birth weight or sick newborns.

Newborn Health

Improving access to neonatal care in sub-Saharan Africa

The NEST Model aims to reduce neonatal mortality (0-28 days), particularly of premature, low birth weight or sick newborns.

How the NEST Model Works

How the NEST Model Works

Newborn Safety

ESSENTIAL
CARE

ensures warmth, nutrition, hygiene, and respiratory support through a family-participatory approach tailored to local contexts for sustainable outcomes

Newborn Health

COMPLICATIONS
MANAGEMENT

provides extra care for babies who develops specific complications at birth, such as respiratory problems, asphyxia, and jaundice

Newborn Health

PERINATAL
NETWORK

fosters coordinated, quality care across health facilities and services, ensuring continuity of care for mothers and newborns in low-resource settings

Family-Centered Care - NEST Model

Family-Centered
Care

Empowering Families for Neonatal Survival
and Development.

Family-centered care recognizes families as vital partners, fostering bonding, empowering parents, and ensuring emotional support to improve survival and development outcomes for newborns.

Mother and child at Ngozi Hospial - NEST Model
Family-Centered Care - NEST Model

Family-Centered
Care

Empowering Families for Neonatal Survival
and Development.

Family-centered care recognizes families as vital partners, fostering bonding, empowering parents, and ensuring emotional support to improve survival and development outcomes for newborns.

Kangaroo Mother Care - NEST Model
Kangaroo Care - NEST Model

Zero Separation

Fostering Unbreakable Bonds for Neonatal Health.

The zero separation approach highlights the importance of uninterrupted closeness between mother and baby, fostering bonding, breastfeeding, and stabilizing the baby’s health for optimal outcomes.

Kangaroo Care - NEST Model

Zero Separation

Fostering Unbreakable Bonds for Neonatal Health.

The zero separation approach highlights the importance of uninterrupted closeness between mother and baby, fostering bonding, breastfeeding, and stabilizing the baby’s health for optimal outcomes.

NEST Model

6 Domains

Pastel Accordion / Toggle Sections
To build capacity of the local healthcare staff, at different levels.
To improve the functionality of the neonatal service, in terms of infrastructure and spaces.
To evaluate basic equipment for neonatal care, in terms of simplicity, adaptability, costs and maintenance.
To implement a system of data recording and management (statistics, medical records, etc.) to monitor progress.
To enhance communication at different levels: within the hospital, with families, and with institutions.
To develop a set of protocols, manuals and guidelines for the NEST Partners’ Hospitals and their perinatal network.
Quote

We rely heavily on Kangaroo Care because it is a natural method that promotes growth, especially for low-birth-weight babies.

Noëlla Hatungimana,
Obstetrician, Ngozi Regional Hospital

Noëlla’s work is crucial in promoting this method at the hospital,ensuring that newborns receive the best possible care and that mothers are educated on the benefits of early skin-to-skin contact.

Noella Hatungimana - NEST Model
Quote
Noella Hatungimana - NEST Model

We rely heavily on Kangaroo Care because it is a natural method that promotes growth, especially for low-birth-weight babies.

Noëlla Hatungimana,
Obstetrician, Ngozi Regional Hospital

Noëlla’s work is crucial in promoting this method at the hospital,ensuring that newborns receive the best possible care and that mothers are educated on the benefits of early skin-to-skin contact.

International Network

Amahoro pro Africa
African Neonatal Association
Council of International Neonatal Nurses
Doctors with Africa CUAMM
CHU-MEL Cotonou
Hopital d'Enfants Yendube
Hopital Saint Camille de Ouagadougou
Hopital Saint Jean de Dieu de Tanguiéta
Ministry of Health Burundi
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
NEST360
PMNCH
Società Italiana di Neonatologia
WeWorld
WHO Collaborating Center for Maternal and Child Health Burlo Garofolo

Useful Resources

In this section, it is possible to download the documents relating to the Model and scientific research publications.

  • Small and Sick Newborn Care Toolkit

    Small and Sick Newborn Care Toolkit

    This toolkit, developed by NEST360 and UNICEF, brings together readings, tools, and learnings for implementers to act, use, share, and learn.

    GO TO SITE
  • Kangaroo Care - NEST Model

    Kangaroo Care as Support for Newborn Development

    This manual contributes to reducing perinatal mortality and morbidity and supports newborn development through Kangaroo Care provision.

    DOWNLOAD
  • Neonatal Care - NEST Model

    Action Plan Instructions

    This document explains in detail, step-by-step, how to use the NEST Model Excel template, also available on this website.

    DOWNLOAD
Small and Sick Newborn Care Toolkit

Small and Sick Newborn Care Toolkit

This toolkit, developed by NEST360 and UNICEF, brings together readings, tools, and learnings for implementers to act, use, share, and learn.

GO TO SITE
Kangaroo Care - NEST Model

Kangaroo Care as Support for Newborn Development

This manual contributes to reducing perinatal mortality and morbidity and supports newborn development through Kangaroo Care provision.

DOWNLOAD
Neonatal Care - NEST Model

Action Plan Instructions

This document explains in detail, step-by-step, how to use the NEST Model Excel template, also available on this website.

DOWNLOAD