Dr Franka Cadée is a proud midwife and international expert on sexual reproductive health and justice, focussing on community centred midwifery models of care and reciprocal collaboration called twinning.

By combining her anthropology and midwifery background and having lived and worked across a range of resourced countries, she has attained a nuanced and realistic, people centred approach. Franka was the President of the International Confederation of Midwives (ICM) from June 2017-2023. She is also a member UNFPA High Level Commission ICPD25plus, an executive Board member of PMNCH, the chair the WithWomen Charity as well as an independent SRHR consultant and haspublished research on reciprocal partnerships as well as (opinion)papers on political issues pertaining to midwifery, gender issues and sexual and reproductive rights and justice.