International Development Grant
Support to the Partnership for Maternal Newborn and Child Health
Project Number: CA-3-M013420001
Status: Closed
Country/Region: Unknown
Regional Focus:
Maximum Contribution: $500,000.00
Start Date: March 11, 2011
End Date: March 31, 2012
Duration: 1.1 years
Project Description
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.
Progress & Results Achieved
Results achieved as of the end of the project (March 2012) include: broadening the Partnership for Maternal Newborn and Child Health (PMMCH) Board membership to include the private sector and conducting advocacy work around the United Nations Commission on Information and Accountability for Women’s and Children’s Health. PMNCH also published and extensively disseminated the Essential Interventions Commodities and Guidelines for Reproductive Maternal Newborn and Child Health (RMNCH) based on a three-year study identifying the most effective RMNCH interventions. In 2011 PMNCH released the annual report on “Analysing Commitments to Advance the Global Strategy for Women’s and Children’s Health”. This report is an important accountability tool for tracking commitments to the Muskoka Initiative on Maternal Newborn and Child Health announced by Prime Minister Stephen Harper at the 2010 G8 Summit. This PMNCH report is also helping to reinforce broader engagement on the United Nations Global Strategy for Women’s and Children’s Health an international effort to reduce child mortality and improve maternal health. These results are improving tracking of global progress on achieving the Millennium Development health goals and developing more effective interventions to improve the health of mothers newborns and children.
Key Information
Executing Agency:
WHO - World Health Organization
Reporting Organization:
Global Affairs Canada
Program:
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Last Modified:
September 19, 2025
Development Classifications
DAC Sector:
Aid Type: Contributions to specific-purpose programmes and funds managed by implementing partners
Collaboration: Bilateral
Finance Type: Aid grant excluding debt reorganisation
Selection Mechanism:
Pre-APP