WHO - World Health Organization

Published purpose

This grant represents CIDA's support to the United Nations Commission on Information and Accountability for Women's and Children's Health. The Commission uses these funds, along with funding from other donors, to support its functioning and achieve its mandate. The Commission was proposed as a time-limited mechanism by the World Health Organization (WHO) in response to requests from the UN Secretary-General to chair a process to determine the most effective international institutional arrangements for global reporting, oversight and accountability on women and children's health, including through the UN system. The G8 also requested that the WHO provide guidance on monitoring and evaluation for maternal, newborn and child health, including by identifying a set of core indicators to measure progress in developing countries.