WHO - World Health Organization

Published purpose

This program supports the Partnership for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health (PMNCH)'s work on tracking progress and commitments towards Millenium Development Goals 4 and 5, and developing a core package of interventions for maternal, newborn, and child health (MNCH). More specifically, it is expected that support to this program contribute to: (1) achieving consensus on the content of MNCH packages of interventions and agreement on how to scale-up; (2) identify research gaps on the content of interventions and map ongoing research; (3) monitor partner financial commitments to MNCH; (4) disseminate and implement a common monitoring and evaluation framework agreed upon by global health initiatives to be used by partners in high-priority countries; (5) track and make publically available progress on MNCH; and (6) undertake and publish work related to reviewing indicators relevant to MNCH and analyze their progress.