In line with the Global Strategy for Women’s, Children’s and Adolescents’ Health, PMNCH focuses on the most vulnerable and marginalized, placing equity at the centre of its work. The Partnership recognizes the substantial impact of health-enhancing sectors on women’s, children’s and adolescents’ health, and engages across sectors to identify links and opportunities to promote greater partner participation in multisectoral knowledge sharing, advocacy, action and accountability to deliver health results for women, children and adolescents.

In April 2017, the High-Level Steering Group for Every Women Every Child (EWEC) endorsed the EWEC Partners’ Framework, which is guiding the Partnership’s work through 2020. The Framework calls for intensified and aligned action in the following six focus areas.

EARLY CHILDHOOD DEVELOPMENT (ECD)

Investing in the early years of life has a profound impact on brain development, affecting a child’s learning, health, behaviour, and ultimately, income.

ADOLESCENT HEALTH AND WELL-BEING

Investments in adolescent health and well-being can transform the lives of young people and generate significant economic returns, yielding a triple dividend: health benefits for adolescents, for the adults they will become and for the next generation.

QUALITY, EQUITY AND DIGNITY (QED)

QED efforts aim to ensure equitable access to good-quality care throughout pregnancy, childbirth and the postnatal period and to ensure that all women, newborns, children and adolescents have a positive experience of care that respects and fulfils their rights.

SEXUAL AND REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH AND RIGHTS (SRHR)

Provision of a comprehensive package of services that addresses sexual and reproductive health needs and rights throughout the life course benefits women, adolescents, children and societies at large and is highly cost-effective.

EMPOWERMENT OF WOMEN, GIRLS AND COMMUNITIES

Laws, policies and social norms that advance gender equality and combat discrimination, coercion and violence are crucial to ensuring that populations and communities survive, thrive and transform; women, children and adolescents must be agents of change in these processes.

WOMEN’S, CHILDREN’S AND ADOLESCENTS’ HEALTH AND WELL-BEING IN HUMANITARIAN AND FRAGILE SETTINGS

Humanitarian and development sectors must work together to meet the needs of women, children and adolescents in humanitarian and fragile settings, including access to adequate services and interventions across the life course.