Between August and November 2019, I had the pleasure of making two trips to Bangladesh to support the Royal College of Midwives’ (RCM) twinning project with the Bangladesh Midwifery Society (BMS). The partnership between the RCM and the BMS aims to strengthen the BMS to advocate for the midwifery profession and to create demand for midwifery services. The project is part of a wider programme of midwifery strengthening activities, managed by the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) Bangladesh, and funded by donors, the Department for International Development (DFID) and the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida)