Investing in the early years of life has a profound impact on brain development, affecting a child’s learning, health, behaviour, and ultimately, income. Why is ECD a focus area for 2018-2020? It is well recognized that targeted investments in ECD offer …
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 …
More than 80 representatives from 33 of the 36 Global Financing Facility (GFF) countries gathered in Cote d’Ivoire for the fifth edition of the GFF Civil Society annual workshop. The meeting, held on the sidelines of the GFF IG meeting, aimed to build the …
PMNCH AYC: Enes Efendioğlu, Gogontlejang Phaladi, Souzana Humsi, David Imbago Jácome The Partnership for Maternal Health & Newborn Child (PMNCH) aims to ensure that women’s, children’s and adolescents’ health and well-being remains a priority in the …
© 2017 Kato James, Courtesy of Photoshare Our children are our future and one of the basic responsibilities is to care for them in the best and most compassionate manner possible. —Nelson Mandela[1] If women are denied a chance to develop their full human …
© 2018 Haydee Lemus/Save the Children International, Courtesy of Photoshare The Independent Accountability Panel (IAP) works to support the Every Woman Every Child (EWEC) movement. It was first convened in 2016 with a mandate to provide an independent and …
Photo courtesy of IPU: Panel on “reaching the hard to reach”. PMNCH, WHO and the Inter-Parliamentary Union, on the sidelines of the 141st IPU Assembly, brought partners together for an event on “Reaching the hard-to-reach: How to make UHC a reality for all …
Photo courtesy of IPU The 141st Assembly of the Inter Parliamentary Union has adopted the landmark resolution “Achieving Universal Health Coverage by 2030: the role of Parliaments in ensuring the right to health,” notching up another milestone in reaching …
Blog by Toyin Chukwudozie, Education as a Vaccine (Nigeria) EVA’s team with Niger State Primary Healthcare Development Board Agency As an advocacy fellow at EVA, I have been able to use the toolkit to push for the implementation of laws and policies that …
Blog by Souvik Pyne, YP Foundation (India) In the last few years, adolescent health has gained traction as a priority focus area. Mortality and morbidity frameworks used to be based on specific diseases and health issues. Over time, with greater …
Photo courtesy of APRC More than 40 researchers, policy makers, parliamentarians and civil society representatives from 11 countries came together in Nairobi to discuss inequities in women’s, children’s and adolescent’s health interventions and how these …
Photo by Direct Relief The global Every Newborn Action Plan (ENAP) provides a road map of evidenced-based and strategic actions to end preventable newborn mortality and stillbirth, and contribute to reducing maternal mortality and morbidity, and …
Photo © Evolving Communications/The Global Financing Facility Awards totaling nearly $600,000 to improve women’s, children’s, and adolescents’ health made to civil society coalitions in nine countries The Partnership for Maternal, Newborn & Child …
PMNCH joined more than 3,000 organizations at the Women Deliver 2019 Conference in Vancouver, an event that brought together world leaders, private sector representatives, academics, journalists, civil society, and a very vocal contingent of young people …
Leaving no woman, child or adolescent behind on the road to UHC “Women, children and adolescents are the centre of gravity for UHC,” said Dr. Githinji Gitahi, Global CEO of Amref Health Africa, “and communities are the axis on which UHC gravitates.” …
In the margins of the 74th United Nations General Assembly, Every Woman Every Child hosted a high-level event and reception - Delivering Together for the Health and Well-being of Women, Children and Adolescents to Advance Universal Health Coverage (UHC) in …
UNICEF/UN0265423 In the run-up to the High-Level Meeting on Universal Health Coverage(UHC) on 23 September 2019, the message must be loud and clear: women, children and adolescents (and their health) are essential to achieving the UHC-related Sustainable …
Although people between 15 and 30 years old make up nearly a quarter of the world’s total population, the international community dedicates less than 2% of global development assistance for health toward young people. As digital natives young people bring …
About this series Building the capacity of young people is critical to realizing the promise of the Sustaining Development Goals (SDGs) and the Global Strategy for Women’s, Children’s and Adolescents’ Health. Adolescents and young people are uniquely …
Former New Zealand Prime Minister and first female United Nations Development Program (UNDP) Administrator Rt. Hon. Helen Clark has been appointed as Board Chair of the Partnership for Maternal, Newborn & Child Health (PMNCH) with effect as of 11 July …
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