WHO Better Outcomes in Labour Difficulty (BOLD) project: innovating to improve quality of care around the time of childbirth

1 Department of Reproductive Health and Research including UNDP/UNFPA/UNICEF/WHO/World Bank Special Programme of Research, Development and Research Training in Human Reproduction (HRP), World Health Organization, Avenue Appia 20, Geneva 1201, Switzerland

2 Department of Social Medicine, Ribeirao Preto School of Medicine, University of São Paulo, Ribeirao Preto, São Paulo 14010, Brazil

3 Department of Population, Family and Reproductive Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, 615 N. Wolfe Street, Baltimore 21205, MD, USA

4 Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, College of Medicine, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria

5 Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda