... inad-equacy of human resources (HR) in developing countries. In the health sector in general, and in maternal health in particular, health care professionals are at the heart of the success of EmOC interventions ... that the failure of the policy regarding traditional birth attendants is duemainly to the lack of technical legitimacy in their training, the excessive supervision required, the difficulty of ... adapt-ing their training to the great diversity of delivery situa-tions, and to interprofessional conflicts generated by thispolicy [3,11].Despite these uncertainties, the range of competences of EmOC...