Support to the Partnership for Maternal Newborn and Child Health – Business Plan 2018-2020

This project supports the work of the Partnership for Maternal Newborn and Child Health (PMNCH) the advocacy and accountability arm of the Every Women Every Child (EWEC) global movement. Through its alliance of over 1 000 organizations from the sexual reproductive maternal newborn child and adolescent health communities the PMNCH provides a platform for organizations to maximize global efforts to improve maternal newborn child and adolescent health. PMNCH works to advance the 2030 Global Strategy for Women's Children's and Adolescents’ Health (Global Strategy) by: (1) prioritizing engagement in countries: focusing on populations and places with the highest burden greatest need and most inequity; (2) driving accountability: nurturing a culture of open accountability to drive purposeful engagement and sustained commitment tracking progress and holding each other to account; (3) focusing action for results: driving advocacy and sharing learning to accelerate and focus action and financing to deliver the Global Strategy for results; and (4) deepening partnerships: engaging and aligning a broad and inclusive range of partners to deliver the full ambition of the PMNCH for action and accountability. The project contributes to poverty reduction by improving maternal newborn child and adolescent health who are among the world's most vulnerable populations.

The expected outcomes of this project include: (1) improve the integration of early childhood development (ECD) into national WCAH policies services and programmes – ECD programming is integrated into 5-10 existing national WCAH policies services and programs; (2) improve adolescent health and well-being: 5-10 national plans for adolescents developed with support provided to national youth-led coalitions to strengthen skills and knowledge of adolescents to exercise their rights to make informed choices; (3) improve quality equity and dignity in UHC services to improve WCAH: QED integrated into national plans in 5-10 Quality of Care Network countries and support provided to 5 QED related campaigns at national and global levels to improve WCAH; (4) improve the integration of sexual and reproductive health and rights in UHC: A comprehensive integrated definition of SRHR is agreed upon and the inclusion of the essential sexual and reproductive health interventions will be integrated in national health plans in 5-10 countries; (5) increase advocacy for the empowerment of women girls and communities: Women children and adolescents are supported as agents of change; fostering community engagement by promoting laws policies and social norms that advance WCAH and rights; (6) improve the integration WCAH in humanitarian and fragile settings (HFS): Alignment adoption and promotion of WCAH essential services in programmes and interventions will be integrated in 5-10 HFS.