Project profile — Support to the Partnership for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health

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.