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Commitments in support of The Global Strategy for Women’s and Children’s and Adolescents’ Health (2016-2030)

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COMMITMENTS IN SUPPORT OF

THE GLOBAL STRATEGY FOR WOMEN’S, CHILDREN’S AND ADOLESCENTS’ HEALTH SEPTEMBER 2015


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Table of Contents POLITICAL COMMITMENTS 4 ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF AFGHANISTAN 5 REPUBLIC OF ANGOLA 6 COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA 8 REPUBLIC OF BENIN 10 REPUBLIC OF BURUNDI 13 KINGDOM OF CAMBODIA 16 CANADA 17 REPUBLIC OF CHAD 18 PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA 19 REPUBLIC OF COLOMBIA 22 CÔTE D’IVOIRE 26 DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO 27 ARAB REPUBLIC OF EGYPT 29 STATE OF ERITREA 30 FEDERAL DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF ETHIOPIA 31 REPUBLIC OF FINLAND 32 FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY 33 REPUBLIC OF INDIA 35 REPUBLIC OF INDONESIA 37 JAPAN 42 REPUBLIC OF KENYA 43 REPUBLIC OF KOREA 45 REPUBLIC OF LIBERIA 46 REPUBLIC OF MADAGASCAR 47 REPUBLIC OF MALAWI 50 ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF MAURITANIA 51 MEXICO 52 KINGDOM OF THE NETHERLANDS 53 NORWAY 55 PAKISTAN 57 REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES 59 REPUBLIC OF RWANDA 60 DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF SÃO TOMÉ-ET-PRINCIPE 63 REPUBLIC OF SIERRA LEONE 65 REPUBLIC OF SOUTH AFRICA 67 DEMOCRATIC SOCIALIST REPUBLIC OF SRI LANKA 68 SWEDEN 71 REPUBLIC OF TOGO 73


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UNITED KINGDOM 75 UNITED STATES OF AMERICA 77 SOCIALIST REPUBLIC OF VIET NAM 79

ACADEMIC, RESEARCH & TRAINING INSTITUTIONS 80

FOUNDATIONS & PHILANTHROPIC ORGANIZATIONS 83

GLOBAL PARTNERSHIPS & MULTILATERAL ORGANIZATIONS 85

HEALTHCARE PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS 93

JOINT PARTNERSHIPS 94

NON GOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS 100

PRIVATE SECTOR 113


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POLITICAL COMMITMENTS


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Islamic Republic of Afghanistan


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Republic of Angola


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Commonwealth of Australia


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Republic of Benin


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Republic of Burundi


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Kingdom of Cambodia


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Canada


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Republic of Chad


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People's Republic of China


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Côte d’Ivoire


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Democratic Republic of the Congo


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Arab Republic of Egypt


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State of Eritrea


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Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia


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Republic of Finland


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Federal Republic of Germany


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Republic of India


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Republic of Indonesia


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Courtesy Translation

Input for the commitment of Every Woman Every Child, Post-‐2015 Ministry of Health, Government of Indonesia Key considerations that build the rationale for the formulation of the Government of Indonesia’s new commitment:

1. The 2010 commitment have gone past the promised period, hence targets needs to be renewed. The challenge we’re facing is despite the increase in services coverage and budget allocation, the numbers are not getting lower. Thus, efforts are concentrated on improving the capacity building for health workers, ensuring standard services, and encouraging cross-‐sectorial commitment for equitable development

2. New commitments should be in line with the values captured in the global development agenda of the SDGs (means of implementation), among others: (1) the strengthening of regulation implementation, institutional capacity, and financing strategy, (2) commitment on cross-‐sectorial cooperation, (3) to focus on optimizing performance instead of being caught in quantitative results (4) data structuring as a modality for reporting progress

3. Concepts that are embedded in the Global Strategy 2.0 emphasizes the strengthening of three aspects: (1) Healthcare workers: skills, motivation, and the fulfillment of means and infrastructure, (2) Access: overcoming financial and socio-‐cultural challenges, (3) Innovation and strategy improvements on the quality of continuum of care services along a person’s life cycle, governed with (4) Leadership, commitment, and good accountability

4. Considering said principles, we reiterate that Indonesia’s national development plans, as elaborated in the Medium-‐term National Development Plan 2015 – 2019 and the Ministry of Health’s Strategic Plan is in line with the initiative.

5. Therefore, we propose 4 (four) points on maternal and child health development that can be highlighted in Every Woman Every Child’s commitment at the early period of the Post-‐2015 Development Agenda implementation:

Commitment 1: Regulation Implementation and Institutional Governance Indonesia will implement:

• Regulation on reproductive health (Government Regulation no. 61/2014) to strengthen the institutional and monitoring capability for maternal, child, and adolescent health services at every level of the government.

• Indonesia Neonatal Action Plan (INAP) as the framework to decrease neonatal mortality rate in the 2015-‐2030 period, through multi-‐sector collaboration and local government involvement in formulating the Regional Work Plan, including in calculating costs.

Commitment 2: Strengthening the Process/Strategy of Intervention Indonesia commits to:

• Increase the quantity and capacity of birth attendants equally, with a local specific manner (example: Long-‐distance education, Strengthening of health workers institutions and regulations for workers’ retention).

• Providing basic care and referrals according to standard. • Increasing the coverage of births delivered at health facilities from 70,4% (2014) to 85% in 2019 (Medium-‐

term National Development Plan 2015-‐2019). • Deployment of team-‐based health workers to remote districts. • Starting in 2016, the central government will allocate a Special Allocation Health Fund for local

governments to fund primary health care operations that specifically target to decrease Maternal Mortality Rate, Infant Mortality Rate, and nutritional improvements, with specific calculation based on the need and ability of each region.


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Commitment 3 : Continuum of care Indonesia commits to decrease maternal and infant mortality in the entirety of human's life phase:

• Focus on the first thousand days of life based on the Presidential Regulation no. 42/2013. • Prevent anemia on adolescent girls by providing blood increasing supplement / folic acid supplement

tablets (Ministry of Health Strategic Plan 2015-‐2019) • Increase the quality and quantity of primary health care services and accesible adolescent-‐friendly

referrals (Ministry of Health Strategic Plan 2015-‐2019). Commitment 4 : Continue to Decreasing Maternal and Infant Mortality Indonesia commits to :

• Accelerate the reduction of maternal mortality rate from 359/100.000 life birth (2012) to at least become 306/100.000 life birth in 2019 (Based on the Medium-‐term National Development Plan target)

• Decrease the neonatal mortality rate from 19/1.000 life birth (2012) to 9/1.000 life birth in 2025, as agreed in Indonesia Neonatal Action Plan (INAP).

Thus we provide to you our considerations. We hope this could be used as additional inputs in the formulation of the “Every Women Every Child” commitment for the Global Strategy 2.0, that is already aligned with the national development direction of the Medium-‐term National Development Plan 2015-‐2019 at the beginning of the Post-‐2015 development agenda implementation. Thank you for your attention and cooperation.


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Japan


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Republic of Korea


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Republic of Liberia


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Republic of Malawi


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Republic of the Philippines


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Republic of South Africa

Dr Pakishe Aaron Motsoaledi, Minister of Health


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ACADEMIC, RESEARCH & TRAINING INSTITUTIONS Aga Khan University In continuation of its support for the current Every Woman Every Child initiative of the UN Secretary General, the Aga Khan University strongly supports and endorses the new Global Strategy for Women’s, Children’s and Adolescents’ Health. As a leading University working on issues of women, newborn infants and children across the various geographies it serves, the Aga Khan University has led the field with the generation of evidence for policy and innovations to reach the poor. Scholars from the University have been part of most recent global initiatives for reducing maternal and child mortality and improving nutrition, long term outcomes and development. Over the next decade the University intends to invest over USD $85 million in programs to improve capacity and to develop programs at scale to reach over 15 million women and children in South-Central Asia and East Africa, and potentially save a million lives. American Academy of Pediatrics The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), a US non -profit membership organization of 62,000 pediatricians dedicated to the health of all children, has a long-standing commitment to child survival. In 2011, the AAP Every Woman Every Child commitment was to deliver training and technical assistance and scale-up the Helping Babies Breathe® program. In 2014, AAP launched Helping Babies Survive, a suite of newborn survival curricula, to address preventable child deaths by strengthening the skills of birth attendants and caregivers throughout the newborn period. Through use of high quality evidence-based zero/low literacy innovative practical educational programs, Helping Babies Breathe® is joined by Essential Care for Every Baby and Essential Care for the Small Baby. The AAP is implementing Helping Babies Survive in collaboration with the Survive and Thrive Global Development Alliance: USAID, Save the Children, NICHD, Laerdal Global Health, Johnson and Johnson, and several others. We renew our commitment to reach more than 60 countries and 1.5 million children, mothers and families in support of the Every Newborn Action Plan. Additionally, between 2015-2017, AAP commits to saving at least 100,000 newborns and, in partnership with the pediatric associations of India, Nigeria, and Ethiopia, to facilitating in-country ability to continue spreading and scaling-up Helping Babies Survive training initiatives.


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Immpact, University of Aberdeen The University of Aberdeen commits in the period up to 2018, over USD $0.5 million of institutional resources to sustain its Immpact unit dedicated to improving maternal and newborn health. Immpact will support at least 10 low-income countries to identify maternal and newborn health research priorities, to generate new evidence to improve and assure the quality of care at birth received by mothers and babies, and to utilize this evidence in policy and programme decision-making. Immpact will work with global and bi-lateral agencies in the implementation of the recommendations of the Commission on Information and Accountability, particularly with regard to maternal and perinatal death audits and quality improvement. Immpact will spearhead an initiative (Y@U) with the Partnership for Maternal Newborn and Child Health to engage the youth constituency at universities in the global North and South in mobilising support and promoting accountability for keeping mothers and babies alive and well. INFANT Irish Centre for Fetal and Neonatal Translational Research INFANT (the Irish Centre for Fetal and Neonatal Translational Research) commits to support the implementation of the Global Strategy for Women’s, Children’s and Adolescents’ Health by continuing to progress our research and innovation in perinatal healthcare, thereby addressing the most common complications of pregnancy and most significant problems for newborn babies. INFANT recognizes that maternal and perinatal complications, which account for almost 10% of the global burden of disease, are disproportionately experienced in developing countries. INFANT will help to address this inequality through pioneering innovation in next generation devices that will transform antenatal and neonatal healthcare and service delivery. INFANT is committed to translating our innovations into affordable, accessible and robust interventions (such as a chip-based screening test in early pregnancy for pre-eclampsia) that will reduce dependence on expensive technology and scarce human resources and expertise. This will have greatest impact in low resource settings where the burden of disease is highest. INFANT has made specific commitments for the next four years, including funding equipment for neonatal seizure detection and treatment in a low resource setting and will directly fund the doctoral research on pre-eclampsia of a low-income country researcher, thus promoting knowledge exchange and capacity building. Institute of Science and Technology of the Federal University of São Paulo NETES (Educational Center of Social Technology and Solidarity Economy) an Academic Extension Program of the Institute of Science and Technology of the Federal University of São Paulo, located in the São José dos Campos campus (UNIFESP SJC) commits to disseminate and build database, information and innovations in existing social technologies in Brazil which can be replicable in health, quality of life and sustainability. We will create a diffusion mechanism of these low-cost technologies; virtual learning for the dissemination of social technologies for children and young people, including the use of the technique of "Augmented Reality" and 3D; intervention actions in communities with high social, economic and environmental vulnerability in the Paraíba Valley and replicability in other similar regions of Brazil; develop a network of young people trained in solidarity economy and social technology in order to perform and promote sustainability, health and quality of life; collection and consolidation of data that provide the best planning and development of life improvement policies; and low-cost social technologies to improve sanitary conditions in vulnerable communities in the Paraíba Valley in São Paulo, Brazil.


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New York Academy of Sciences (NYAS) To meet the need to develop children to their fullest potential, the New York Academy of Sciences (NYAS) is committed to creating a Global Alliance of Cities, a global hub for theory-to-practice work on children’s development from conception to the first 1,000 days, tracking progress and sharing findings with a network of cities across the globe to foster change that can help even the most disadvantaged children grow into valuable contributors to a country’s economy and society. It will do this initially by convening 12 global “Founding City” alliances and 12 national “Founding City” alliances that bring together scientists, government leaders, corporations, and private sector, visionaries, implementers, and communicators to collectively develop and broadly share best practices and policies to address the critical issue of the underdevelopment of human capital, focused on environmental influences such as maternal and infant nutrition, social/emotional interaction, poverty, emotional stress, air quality, play, and other health factors that we know have measurable effects on neural development, cognitive functioning, mental, and physical wellbeing. These implementations will be tracked and measured and disseminated widely from 2015 through 2018. Shalamar Institute of Health Sciences The Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at Shalamar Institute of Health Sciences, Lahore, Pakistan, commits to reduce the prevalence of anemia by 60% in women of reproductive age group in next five years in the rural area along the India Pakistan Border in the North of Lahore, by detection, treatment and health education through local health care provision. We also commit to extend the provision of Antenatal and Postnatal care to at least 5,000 pregnant women and essential newborn care to this underserved community during next five years in organized field medical camps, by free medical check-up, laboratory tests, obstetric ultrasound, free supply of iron and folate supplements and arrangement of transport and referral of obstetric/delivery cases and their treatment at Shalamar hospital. SickKids The SickKids Centre for Global Child Health at The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) in Toronto advocates for improved global child health through strategic partnerships, collaborative policy, and setting the research agenda at institutional, regional, national and international levels. The SickKids Centre for Global Child Health directly and indirectly provides the following, aligning with the Global Strategy for Women’s, Children’s and Adolescents’ Health: (1) Country-led health plans: e.g. Micronutrient Powder (MNP) scale-up; (2) Integrated care: Most Centre for Global Child Health programs consider multidisciplinary function and interaction from physician to community health worker; (3) Health systems strengthening, Health workforce capacity building: Education and training, combined with the provision of equipment: e.g. Severe Acute Malnutrition Follow-Up Study; (4) Saving Newborn Lives/Brains toolkits study; Sickkids-Ghana Paediatric Nurses Training; (5) Program, SickKids-Caribbean Initiative (SCI) to Enhance Capacity for Care in Paediatric Cancer and Blood Disorders; (6) Coordinated research and innovation: Extensive portfolio of multi-institutional global research projects with partners such as Save the Children; Plan Canada; Munk School of Global Affairs, University of the West Indies, University of Ghana, among others, to ensure reciprocal learning.


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FOUNDATIONS & PHILANTHROPIC ORGANIZATIONS Children’s Investment Fund Foundation (CIFF) Since 2012, the Children’s Investment Fund Foundation (CIFF) has committed more than USD $1,100,000,000 to support the vision of a world where every pregnancy is wanted, every birth celebrated, and every mother and her child survives and thrives today and in the future. We expect that from 2016 about USD $900,000,000 of these committed funds will directly support the new Global Strategy. Specific investments include programmes to improve maternal and newborn survival and adolescent reproductive health, and scale up better nutrition for mothers and children and school-based deworming. We are working to help protect and secure a healthy and sustainable future for children in a climate-safe world. For most of our grants, we work with partners to measure and evaluate progress to achieve large scale and sustainable impact. Only by investing in data and evidence can we measure the impact of what we do. Without measurement we are guessing. In line with the new Global Strategy, we are committed to sharing as much information as possible about what we are learning alongside our partners. Contributing to the global knowledge bank will help all of us speed up the transformational change required. Grand Challenges Canada Grand Challenges Canada (GCC), with funding from the Government of Canada, is making a two-part commitment to Every Woman Every Child (EWEC) with an emphasis on promoting and scaling up RMNCAH-focused innovations via GCC’s commitment to align its MNCH platform up to $161,000,000 in support of EWEC, as well as hosting of the Innovation Marketplace Secretariat and Grand Challenges Canada’s CEO Peter A. Singer co-chairing the EWEC Innovation Working Group. Grand Challenges Canada is committed to align its recently announced USD $120,000,000 funding agreement for Maternal, Newborn, and Child Health (MNCH) from the Government of Canada with EWEC. It will do so by funding RMNCAH innovations to advance the goals of the new Global Strategy under EWEC over the next five years. Specific programs under this commitment are: (1) Saving Lives at Birth; (2) Saving Brains; (3) Muskoka Stars; (4) Muskoka Transition to Scale. Grand Challenges Canada will also support an Innovation Marketplace will create channels for connecting innovators to partners and funds at the critical testing and transition to scale stages of the development of new products for women’s, children’s, and adolescents’ health.


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Stars Foundation The Stars Foundation runs the annual ‘Impact Awards’ which seek to identify, recognize and reward high performing locally-based civil society organizations whose work focuses on improving the lives of children and their communities, in countries where need is highest. By providing funding directly to organizations and giving them flexibility to respond to areas they deem highest priority, Stars supports locally-led responsive development. Through the Impact Awards, Stars Foundation commits to recognizing the work of 120 organizations that are responsive to the needs of the communities they serve, can demonstrate their impact on the lives of children and their communities, and have solid institutional practices and procedures in place. During 2016-20, Stars will provide approximately USD $7 million to these organizations in flexible funding and capacity building support so that they are able to direct resources to where need is greatest. Stars anticipates that the Impact Awards will support organizations in around 40 countries that are based in the hundred countries with the highest under-five mortality rate. UNF To support the updated Global Strategy on Women’s, Children’s and Adolescents’ Health and to accelerate progress towards ensuring that every woman, child, and adolescent survives and thrives, the United Nations Foundation commits to catalyzing at least USD $90,000,000 over the next three years (from September 2015 through December 2018), together with our partners, to: (1) vaccinate approximately 40 million children around the world; (2) reach at least 3 million women with essential health information via SMS messages; (3) protect 1.5 million people from malaria by supporting UNHCR and other partners to distribute bednets and other interventions in high-burden areas; (4) advance gender equality by improving global-level gender data, including directly generating at least 13 new pieces of foundational research; (5) improve access to modern and reliable electrification for health clinics in low-resource settings, through a new partnership with WHO and UN Women; (6) partner with UNICEF and UNFPA to deliver comprehensive programs for girls in at least four developing countries; (7) conduct robust advocacy to sustain donor funding for global health, mobilize domestic resources for health, and advance key policy changes; (8) continue to host major global development alliances: Family Planning 2020, the Mobile Alliance for Maternal Action (MAMA), and the Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves, which bring together the UN, private sector, donor and developing country governments, and NGOs. WBF Wellbeing Foundation Africa The Wellbeing Foundation Africa (The Foundation) will continue to lead in catalyzing multi-sectorial partnerships for reproductive, maternal, newborn, child and adolescent health (RMNCAH) in Nigeria, committing to the development of collaborations for RMNCAH efforts, focusing on funding for Universal Health Coverage; financial inclusion for women and families; improved data/information management systems for RMNCAH; improved health commodities delivery to women, children and adolescents; and RMNCAH advocacy. The Foundation will seek corporate social responsibility commitments from a range of Nigerian and Nigeria-based organizations and leaders. The Foundation will focus on the development of programs that will show verifiable impact on the survival of mothers, children and adolescents, including training programmes for healthcare workers and mothers, and the continued deployment of tools, such as the client-held personal health records, that will enhance uptake of essential health provision. The Foundation will develop a social enterprise to introduce key maternal and child health products to the Nigeria health system. The Foundation will participate in policy development as well as adopt effective SDG-related communication policy for harmonized messaging and coordinated advocacy efforts on RMNCAH. The Foundation commits to USD $2.5 million per year to support this multi sector-driven effort from 2015 through 2020.


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GLOBAL PARTNERSHIPS & MULTILATERAL ORGANIZATIONS ACT!2015 As part of ACT!2015, a global youth initiative led by The PACT and national youth alliances (representing 13 countries), with support from UNAIDS, young people are committing to establish youth-led and data-driven accountability mechanisms in focus countries for young people’s sexual and reproductive health and rights through indicator advocacy, evidence gathering, communications and global exchange and visibility. As a result, youth partners will develop national indicator advocacy roadmaps, create national databases and translate data into communication packages for advocacy, and facilitate global exchange across countries and regions at high-level and politically strategic meetings. The phase of this initiative starts September 2015 and closes December 2017. As a result, we expect to find: increased visibility and recognition of youth-‐led accountability at national, regional and global meetings; effective global, regional and national coordination and coherence across youth organisations; governments adopt policies and provide resources for SRHR and HIV that are youth responsive, including comprehensive sexuality education and youth friendly services; and, national-‐youth led accountability mechanisms are adopted into national level governance structures for monitoring and implementation of the SDGs. African Union The African Union (AU) Commission believes that the Global Strategy remains a very important tool to build on the momentum gained and set the stage for the attainment of the Sustainable Development Goals. At the Commission, the Strategy will give new impetus to the continental campaigns and the push for renewed focus on the health of women, children and adolescents as well as the need to put in place strong accountability mechanisms for financial resources and improved health outcomes. The revised Strategy aligns with the AU health policies, strategies and programmes such as: The African Health Strategy; The Continental Policy Framework for Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights; The Maputo Plan of Action; Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Plan for Africa; Abuja AU Commitments: The Roadmap for Control and Elimination of AIDS TB and Malaria by 2030; Continental Strategic Framework and African eMTCT Plan for the Elimination of New HIV Infections Among Children in Africa; Campaign for Accelerated Reduction of Maternal Mortality in Africa (CARMMA); AU Champaign to End Child Marriage in Africa; and The Mama Afrika Award. The AU believes strongly that implementing the above policies, strategies and programmes would have a direct impact on the achievements of the updated Global Strategy. The African Union is committed to ensuring that women, children and adolescents are given the attention they deserve in the post-2015 era. The


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Commission commits to continue high-level advocacy to ensure ownership, political commitment and leadership for the implementation of global and continental health policies, strategies and programmes at the national level. Climate and Clean Air Coalition Accounting for around 7 million deaths each year, exposure to air pollution is a major risk factor for non-communicable diseases like heart disease, stroke, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, lung cancer and respiratory infections like childhood pneumonia. More than 50% of premature deaths among children under 5 are due to pneumonia caused by particulate matter (soot) inhaled from household air pollution (WHO). Global action on short-lived climate pollutants (SLCPs) – mainly black carbon, methane and hydrofluorocarbons – by 2030 can prevent an estimated 2.4 million deaths annually from outdoor air pollution, significantly reduce the estimated 4.3 million deaths and other health impacts from indoor air pollution, and avoid 52 million tons of crop losses annually, while slowing down the warming expected by 2050 by 0.6 C, and in sensitive regions of the world reducing the disruption of rainfall patterns, slowing the melting of some glaciers, and reducing the rate of sea-level rise. The Climate and Clean Air Coalition to Reduce Short-Lived Climate Pollutants (CCAC), over the next five years, will prioritize its resources to support the development and implementation of policies and practices that will deliver reductions of pollutants such as black carbon and methane that contribute to indoor and outdoor air pollution as well as near-term warming of the global climate. East African Community The East African Community (EAC) will support implementation of the renewed Global Strategy for Women’s Children’s and Adolescent’s Health in its 5 Member states (the Republic of Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda, United Republic of Tanzania and Uganda) by convening biennial regional high level south-to-south meetings of Ministers, Parliamentarians, Public and Private Sector Stakeholders, Civil Society, Academia, and Health Professionals to review progress towards women’s children’s and adolescent’s health as envisioned in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the renewed Global Strategy for Women’s Children’s and Adolescent’s Health, 2016-2030. These meetings in addition to serving as a space for holding governments and partners to account for progress will prioritize key bottlenecks and drivers; adopt strategies to scale up front-runner innovations in EAC ; and inform EAC supported south-to-south collaboration. It will make use of the EAC Open Health Initiative (OHI) which focuses on a) strengthening oversight and accountability for results and resources through increasing access to high quality health data/information, b) facilitating diffusion of expertise, best practices and innovations among the EAC Partner States; c) Enhancing Financing and d) Accelerating Political Momentum. Every Woman Every Child China Partnership Network Every Woman Every Child China Partnership Network is a growing coalition of China’s leading academic institutions, think tanks, professional associations, NGOs and private sector leaders that are working together to improve women children and adolescents health in China and overseas in support of the updated Global Strategy for Women’s Children’s and Adolescents’ Health. It commits to leverage the collective strengths of the members to support Chinese government’s efforts in achieving related Sustainable Development Goals and help end preventable deaths of women, children and adolescents in China. It also commits to mobilize additional resources and facilitate the forging of innovative and sustainable partnerships to support the international community’s efforts in achieving the vision of the updated Global Strategy, and other developing countries’ national plans and strategies in improving women children and adolescents health. Methods of support including advocacy and political


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mobilization for critical issues and south- south health cooperation, academic activities in support of policy making and partnership/program development/implementation, technical assistance, philanthropy, CSR, and sustainable and innovative partnerships in the areas of UHC and insurance, electricity, clean water, ICT for health, professional health worker training, medical equipment, agriculture, nutrition, and food safety. Initial investment/donation from members totaled $290 million over the next 5 years. The China Partnership Network is housed at Chinese People's Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries, with National Health and Family Planning Commission and Ministry of Foreign Affairs serving as the Network’s technical and policy advisors. Current members including All-China Women's Federation, China Research and Development Foundation, China Red Ribbon Foundation, China Chamber of Commerce for Import and Export of Medicines and Health Products, Peking University (Health Science Center), Tsinghua University (Research Center for Public Health), China Taiping Insurance Group, Fosun Pharm Group, BYD Group, Huawei Company, LeTV, China Chai Tai, and growing (with many companies and organizations currently completing the process of joining). GAVI Alliance Gavi commits to support developing countries to introduce and increase access to vaccines so that they are able to protect every child with a full package of WHO-recommended life-saving vaccines. This will include introducing new vaccines into the routine schedules of national immunization programmes and working to protect every child, including those who are hardest to reach (e.g. in poorer urban areas as well as more remote rural locations). This includes support for increased access to: (1) Rotavirus vaccine which protects against rotavirus, the leading cause of severe childhood diarrhoea in both developed and developing countries and results in more than 450,000 deaths each year; (2) Pneumococcal vaccine which protects against pneumococcal disease, the leading vaccine-preventable cause of death in children under-five years of age; and (3) Human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccines which can prevent 70% of cervical cancer cases. Gavi commits USD $9,500,000,000 to immunizing over 30 million girls against HPV in over 40 countries between 2016-2020. It is estimated that between 2016-2020 HPV vaccinations in Gavi-supported countries could avert some 600,000 future deaths of adult women. Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves Over the next five years, the Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves, in combination with our hundreds of public and private partners, commits to build upon our early momentum and success to ensure that 100 million households adopt clean and efficient cookstoves and fuels by 2020. The Alliance will catalyze markets and spur adoption by continuing to strengthen the evidence-base, documenting the health risks of household air pollution, and demonstrating the benefits of adopting clean cookstoves and fuels, particularly for women and children, with the aim of saving 580,000 lives, including 155,000 children. The Alliance commits at least USD $3 million for public health research focused on developmental effects over the next three years, with additional resources anticipated through 2020. In addition, we will create behaviour change communications materials tailored to health practitioners to increase the uptake of clean cookstoves and fuels as a disease prevention and health maintenance tool; work with WHO to develop appropriate child survival and health indicators to track progress toward adoption of cooking technologies; and increase global advocacy within the public health community to raise the profile of household air pollution and clean cookstoves and fuels as cost-effective mechanisms for promoting child survival. Global Alliance to Prevent Prematurity and Stillbirth (GAPPS)


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Global Alliance to Prevent Prematurity and Stillbirth, an initiative of Seattle Children’s Research Institute (GAPPS) commits to continuing to lead a collaborative global effort to increase awareness and accelerate innovative research and interventions to improve maternal, newborn, and child health outcomes around the world. The Preventing Preterm Birth Initiative will expand its portfolio with research using a systems biology approach to discover biological mechanisms underlying preterm birth and develop innovations for prevention, especially relevant to low- and middle-income countries. The GAPPS Repository – the first standardized, widely-accessible collection of high-quality specimens linked to data from pregnant women – will continue to drive harmonized efforts to improve discovery and implementation research by supporting expansion to study sites in low- and middle-income countries. GAPPS will encourage collaboration among organizations that fund the research needed to reduce the global burden of preterm birth in its capacity as secretariat for the Global Coalition to Advance Preterm Birth Research. Additionally, GAPPS will partner on global advocacy campaigns to encourage increased financial commitments of the United States Government on maternal, newborn and child health, with a focus on expanding funding for research, prevention, and care. Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria commits to making substantive financial and policy contributions to advancing the United Nation’s Global Strategy for Women’s, Children’s, and Adolescent’s Health. Building on previous commitments made in 2010, The Global Fund strives to maintain or increase investments for women and children (with particular attention to girls) from the current 55% by the end of 2016. Recognizing the importance of providing them with quality health services, the Global Fund commits to maintaining at least one-third of our resources to building resilient and sustainable health systems, including investing in community workers and organizations who are often best placed to reach these populations. The Global Fund commits to a gendered approach to the provision of services by promoting gender analyses, increasing the number of countries reporting sex disaggregated data for key HIV and TB indicators, and providing support against gender based violence and any forms of gender based discrimination. Advancements for girls and women will require an intra-sectoral approach. The Global Fund commits to provide adolescent girls who are at the highest-risk to HIV integrated health and education services, and ensure comprehensive, gender responsive approaches for children and women in complex operating environments. Global Respectful Maternity Care Council (GRMCC) The Global Respectful Maternity Care Council (GRMCC) is multisectoral group of 22 organizations, representing over 200 members from around the world including researchers, clinicians, advocates, professional associations, UN agencies and donors dedicated to identifying, implementing and advocating for strategies to promote respectful maternity care and tackle the problem of disrespect and abuse during childbirth in order to improve the quality of reproductive, maternal, and newborn health care. Over next five years, the GRMCC commits to advocating to build policy support for, investment in, and implementation of participatory accountability mechanisms to ensure that women’s rights to respectful maternity care are respected, protected, and fulfilled. We will also contribute to a robust body of evidence around best and scalable practices that effectively improve respectful maternity care, and to support adaptation of these practices by maternal and child health implementers and public health systems globally. Our work will include identifying gaps in knowledge related to respectful maternity care interventions; developing a framework for the organization and collection of respectful maternity care intervention evidence; developing a review that synthesizes the nature, location and success of various interventions to address disrespect and abuse across


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settings; and fostering sharing of evidence and promising approaches among researchers, implementers, advocates and policy-makers. Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) OHCHR commits to providing support for the application of human rights-based approaches to women’s, children’s and adolescents’ health, capacity building of rights holders and duty bearers, technical advice and guidance and working with Human Rights Mechanisms. This commitment would be grounded in the High Commissioner's mandate to promote and protect human rights; advocacy for the implementation of the Global Strategy, including on accountability, into OHCHR’s work in promoting and protecting the right to health (including sexual and reproductive health and rights) will be an important component. The focus of OHCHR’s activities in support of the Global Strategy will include: (1) support for multi-stakeholder processes to advance a rights based approach to the health of women, children and adolescents, including maternal health, where our existing technical guidance serves as the framework; (2) building the capacity of civil society actors to utilize human rights mechanisms to claim their health and health-related rights; (3) developing guidance at the international level to enhance understanding of what is required by a rights based approach to the health of women, children and adolescents; (4) working with human rights mechanisms to ensure that attention is devoted to concerns about the health of these populations. More detailed information relating to activities will be made available on finalization of OHCHR’s work plan for 2016. Organization of African First Ladies against HIV/AIDS (OAFLA) Based on the strategic direction of the Organization of African First Ladies against HIV/AIDS (OAFLA) and in line with the aims of the Global Strategy, OAFLA members commit to invest in the health and empowerment of women, children and adolescents and protect their rights to healthy futures. We, the First Ladies of Africa, will advocate with national governments and multilateral organizations to actively support continental initiatives on strengthening health systems and promoting gender equality and the empowerment of women and adolescent girls to exercise their reproductive rights, including access to safe, voluntary family planning services. We will mobilize resources to improve maternal, newborn, child and adolescent health services; HIV/AIDS prevention and treatment; access to sexual and reproductive health and rights services for women and adolescent girls; ending child marriage and cervical cancer prevention and treatment. We will continue to collaborate with our existing partners as well as encourage the establishment of new partnerships, including with the private sector and philanthropists, to ensure that issues concerning the health, education, wellbeing and empowerment of women and adolescent girls remain central in global deliberations on the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals. Partners in Population and Development Partners in Population and Development (PPD) commits to mobilize political support and resources with its member countries and other partners to deliver the Global Strategy. We will engage policy makers and present evidence to position the Global Strategy as a high priority in national development agendas. With the Government of Bangladesh we will host an inter-ministerial conference to promote South to South cooperation and country ownership of the Global Strategy and ensure it is part of the delivery of the Sustainable Development Goals within PPD members and other countries. Through our global representation, we will promote South to South diplomacy in support of the Global Strategy. We will explore and facilitate enhanced capacity development, technical cooperation and technology transfer on priority areas of the Global Strategy that respond to country needs. We will identify, document and disseminate good practices and maintain a knowledge bank of policy, programming and


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technical resources for implementing the Global Strategy at the national and global level. We will develop new partnerships to contribute to global policy dialogue on the Global Strategy and provide a platform for institutional capacity building for South to South cooperation, encouraging and facilitating peer-based experience exchange and technical cooperation. Partnership for Maternal, Newborn & Child Health (The Partnership) The Partnership for Maternal, Newborn & Child Health (The Partnership) will build upon its multi-stakeholder platform to engage and align stakeholders in support of the Every Woman Every Child movement through the following five commitments, to be undertaken by 2020: (1) Host a unified, accountability mechanism that facilitates independent and mutual accountability for results, resources and rights impacting on the health and wellbeing of women, children and adolescents. Beginning in 2016, develop and enable a concrete agenda for action, including support to the work of the new Independent Accountability Panel (IAP) – appointed by the UN Secretary-General – that will produce a comprehensive annual report (“State of Women’s, Children’s Adolescents’ Health”). (2) Work through our Board, members and constituency groups to leverage the work of the IAP and its annual report to strengthen mutual accountability; drive advocacy to redress gaps and inequities at global, regional, country levels; and create new advocacy and partnership tools to stimulate greater public and private sector engagement with the Global Strategy. 3) Leverage the individual and collective strengths of the Partnership’s members in advancing the health of women, newborns, children, and adolescents across the continuum of care and driving the achievement of the SDGs more broadly. 4) Engage young people and adolescent health networks more systematically, securing their contributions to all areas of the Partnership’s work, including, and beyond, sexual and reproductive health and rights. (5) Build knowledge to improve advocacy and alignment around the inter-sectoral actions needed to promote women's, children's and adolescents’ health and wellbeing, including education, employment, nutrition, water and sanitation, energy and infrastructure, and gender empowerment. Specifically, The Partnership will foster the development of an “Alliance of Alliances” network of global partnership platforms working across these sectors to identify opportunities for joint accountability and ways for strengthening collaboration between health and related sectors in support of the Global Strategy. Regional Parliamentary Networks on Population and Development The Inter-American Parliamentary Group on Population and Development (IAPG), the European Parliamentary Forum on Population and Development (EPF), the Asian Forum of Parliamentarians on Population and Development (AFPPD), and the African Parliamentary Forum on Population and Development (APFPD) are four independent regional networks working with parliamentarians across party lines to advance reproductive health and rights for women and girls around the world. The four regional parliamentary networks on population and development (IAPG, AFPPD, EPF, APFPD) are committed to achieving the goals of the Every Woman Every Child (EWEC) Global Strategy for Women, Children and Adolescents’ Health, strengthening alliances across regions and propose a joint commitment of USD $3,300,000 between January 2016 and December 2019 to support the EWEC Global Strategy that will: (1) enact and advocate for the enforcement of laws and policies to respect and protect the sexual and reproductive health and rights of all women, girls and adolescents; (2) advocate for the allocation of appropriate resources and increased development assistance budgets for population assistance, and ensure the target of 0.7 per cent of gross national product (GNP) for official development assistance; (3) strengthen intra-regional parliamentary alliances at country, regional and global levels, through capacity building and by facilitating the exchange of best practices among members of parliament on sexual and reproductive health and rights issues; (4) strengthen intra-regional parliamentary alliances by increasing collaboration among


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secretariats, aligning work plans and actively monitoring the progress and impact of our work through our national and regional parliamentary structures in partnership with United Nations partners, civil society and youth. Together for Girls Together for Girls (TfG) is a global partnership that brings together the world’s preeminent public health agencies, governments and the private sector in a shared commitment to end violence against children, with a particular focus on sexual violence and girls. TfG partners, working closely with 17 national governments, are contributing across three pillars of action: 1) national surveys to document the magnitude, nature and impact of physical, emotional and sexual violence against children; 2) evidence-based, coordinated policy and program actions in countries to address issues identified through the surveys; and 3) global advocacy and public awareness efforts. TfG commits to ensuring girls and boys in participating countries experience a reduction in sexual, physical and emotional violence; and those who experience violence have greater access to services that improve their safety, health and wellbeing. As part of the commitment, TfG will expand the number of partner countries that undertake the Violence Against Children Surveys; grow the number of countries and sectors implementing activities to prevent and respond to violence against children, especially sexual violence; and increase awareness and global learning on the issue of violence prevention and response. TfG leverages approximately USD $13-14 million in contributions each year to end violence against children. Over a 15-year period this amounts to approximately USD $195-210 million. United Nations Development Programme Gender equality and women’s empowerment are key drivers of sustainable development. Hence, the promotion of gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls is central to UNDP’s mission of eradicating poverty and reducing inequalities and exclusion. UNDP commits to improving HIV, health and development outcomes for women and girls by supporting multisectoral action to address and prevent gender-based violence, strengthen enabling legal and policy environments, and promote equal access to sexual reproductive health and rights for women and girls in 80 low- and middle-income countries by 2020. Key actions include: (1) Supporting countries to review, revise and adopt programmes, policies and laws necessary for advancing gender equality and empowerment of women and girls, including addressing the conflicts between formal and informal legal systems and related practices; (2) Strengthening enabling legal and policy environments that promote and protect the sexual reproductive health and rights of women and girls; (3) Improving access to justice for human rights violations such as gender-based violence and discrimination in various contexts, including in health care settings; (4) Supporting countries to engage men and boy in transforming social norms and behaviours that contribute to better HIV, health and development outcomes. United Nations Office for South-South Cooperation (UNOSSC) As the lead UN agency mandated with promoting South-South and triangular cooperation, the United Nations Office for South-South Cooperation (UNOSSC) commits to: (1) Promote South-South and triangular (North-South-South) cooperation, and streamline and lead global advocacy efforts to develop and strengthen these partnerships; (2) Leverage the South-South Global Assets and Technology Exchange (SS-GATE) and South-South Global Health Exchange (SS-GHX) platforms to strengthen knowledge sharing, capacity building and technical assistance between countries; (3) Adopt a multisectoral approach, drawing upon existing partnerships with UN Agencies, governments, civil society and other stakeholders to develop, implement, and evaluate projects that advance the vision and objectives of the Global Strategy for Women’s, Children’s and Adolescent’s Health. (4) Utilize a public-private partnership approach to optimise


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advocacy and strengthen the delivery of these commitments. (5) Mobilize political, institutional, technical, and financial support globally, offering SS-GATE and SS-GHX services to Southern countries to enhance the role and potential of emerging economies. SS-GATE and SS-GHX are General Assembly endorsed platforms that enable Southern countries to identify, exchange, adapt, finance, and scale-up global health solutions. SS-GATE currently has 50 country centres in 40 countries, encompassing tens of millions of potential beneficiaries. Together, the platforms leverage between USD $150,000 and USD $200,000 annually towards programs that address health issues including MNACH. This is an initial five-year commitment from January 2016 until December 2020. West African Health Organization The West African Health Organization (WAHO) commits to scale up its activities to improve health outcomes of women, children and adolescents in its 15 member countries between 2016 and 2020. In support to the Economic Community of West African States (Communauté économique des États de l'Afrique de l'Ouest, CEDEAO), WAHO will work around three strategic objectives: promoting policies and programmes supporting the delivery of essential interventions, strengthening strategic partnerships and strengthening institutional capacity. WAHO plans to support Ministries of Health with over USD $102 million over the period of four years on RMNCAH programmes alone and aims to contribute to reaching: (a) 7 million newborns with essential services; (b) 65 million children with vaccines; (c) 50 million adolescents with comprehensive sexuality education, and (d) 37 million women with SRH interventions, including family planning. To deliver on these objectives, WAHO will prioritize women, children and adolescents within the following programmes: Health research and information, infectious disease control, epidemic preparedness and response, health promotion, medications and vaccinations, reproductive healthcare, building capacity of health infrastructure and services, human resources for health, technical assistance to Member States, and harmonization and alignment of policies and strategies. World Health Organization The World Health Organization commits to collaborate with governments, regional bodies, UN agencies and partner organizations to support country-led implementation through the development and deployment of the Operational Framework, Global Financing Facility and Accountability Framework. We will consider the Operational Framework at the World Health Assembly in May 2016, and regularly review progress on results, resources and rights for women’s, children’s and adolescent health, harmonized with the work of the Independent Accountability Panel and monitoring of Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) 3 focusing on improving data, metrics and measurement, including through strengthened civil registration and vital statistics systems. We will assist governments, upon request, in strengthening health services, furnishing appropriate technical assistance, and providing necessary aid in emergencies, given the significant health needs of women, children and adolescents in humanitarian and fragile settings. We will promote co-operation among scientific and professional groups to contribute to the advancement of knowledge to improve women’s, children’s and adolescents’ health; and propose evidence-based conventions, agreements and regulations, and make recommendations on related international health matters. We will strengthen collaboration with other sectors to address the socioeconomic, political, social and environmental determinants of women’s, children’s and adolescents’ health and to align with the holistic and integrated approach of the SDGs.


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HEALTHCARE PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS Council of International Neonatal Nurses COINN is committed to improving neonatal health outcomes, focusing on the most vulnerable newborns from the first minutes of life until 28 days. COINN and its member associations aim to work together with country health departments to train healthcare workers in the care of the newborn, particularly the preterm and sick newborn. COINN is dedicated to training nurses and other personnel in Helping Babies Breathe, S.T.A.B.L.E., Kangaroo Mother Care, and basic neonatal care especially regarding neonatal infections, and providing leadership development for nurses at local and global level so they advocate for policy changes in terms of neonatal care provision. COINN commits to: (1) Continue to teach Helping Babies Breathe (HBB) in at least one in Africa, one country in Southeast Asia and one country in the Pacific (Papua New Guinea) by July 1, 2016; (2) Continue to teach the S.T.A.B.L.E. program through the leadership of Dr. Kris Karlsen in at least three countries in Southeast Asia and other parts of the world by July 1, 2016; (3) Advocate for use of Kangaroo Mother Care (KMC); (4) Incorporate the ENAP and neonatal nursing leadership development into COINN’s Strategic Plan for the next five years (2014-2019); and (5) Continue to strengthen the neonatal nursing workforce through leadership development and education. International Confederation of Midwives In support of the updated Global Strategy, the International Confederation of Midwives (ICM) commits to support competency-based midwifery education programmes and faculty development through ICM standards, guidelines and education programme certification mechanism throughout ICM’s Strategic Directions 2014-2017 and 2017-2020. ICM will contribute to advocacy campaigns and champion normal birth, promoting midwives as the most appropriate healthcare professionals for evidence-based physiological care throughout women’s reproductive years, during ICM’s Strategic Directions 2014-2017 and 2017-2020. Working in partnership with a broad spectrum of development partners and using the Midwifery Services Framework, gap analyses and other tools and guidelines to provide technical assistance to midwives associations, national governments and their stakeholders so they can optimize accessible quality midwifery care for all women of reproductive age. ICM commits USD $3,500,000 in estimated staff, Board, committees and consultant time through 2020, to provide technical assistance, develop or update ICM professional resources, advocate for quality reproductive, maternal, newborn, child and adolescent health care and support the further development of quality midwifery care.


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JOINT PARTNERSHIPS Alliance of Alliances Recognizing the need for multi-sectoral cooperation and accountability to advance women’s, children’s and adolescents’ health and sustainable development, our organizations commit to work together across sectors, and develop an “Alliance of Alliances” working together at global, regional and country levels during 2015-2020. We will identify shared policy priorities and discuss best practices in membership and governance to improve our individual and collective impact. Expected results include greater harmonization at a global policy level and stronger coordination and efficiency among members at national and sub-national levels, including among those who belong to our platforms. We will develop mechanisms to collect joint data and evidence on accountability across alliances to contribute to an annual “State of Women’s, Children’s and Adolescents’ Health” report. Through this, we will contribute to developing and strengthening collaborative approaches to an integrated accountability framework for the SDGs, reducing the risk of duplication and overlap of separate, issue-specific accountability frameworks. We will develop shared strategies, tools, messages and champions on areas of shared concern, setting a target of one issue per year to advocate on together. We will share emerging research and knowledge products across all platforms on issues of mutual interest and seek and implement opportunities to develop cross-partner knowledge projects. Caribbean Community (CARICOM) / United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) This commitment focuses on opportunities for the Caribbean region to improve the lives of women and children by promoting partnerships, coordination and coherence in efforts in the region. More specifically it will identify benchmarks and targets designed to reduce maternal mortality and morbidity, gender-based violence, adolescent pregnancies and eliminate mother to child transmission of HIV. The 14 members supported by agencies such as UNFPA, UNICEF, the Pan American Health Organization, and UNAIDS have undertaken a series of studies that have identified the challenges posed to women’s and children’s health. In addition The CARICOM Secretariat and the Caribbean Cooperation in Health process have underscored the links between these issues and sexual and reproductive health and rights. Pivotal to this process is the United Nations Progress Report on the Global Strategy for Women’s and Children’s Health which identifies progress toward the achievement of Millennium Development Goals 4, 5, and 6 between 2010 and the present time, due to “hard work and innovative


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partnerships.’’ The issue is how the lessons learned over the past 5 years will now be translated into strategic action and financial resources as we move into the post-2015 era. Caring & Living As Neighbours (CLAN) / Atfaal Welfare Society / Kakamega Children's Library CLAN (Caring & Living As Neighbours), the Atfaal Welfare Society of Pakistan, and the Kakamega Children’s Library in Kenya commit to collaborative efforts to improve quality of life for children and adolescents living with and at risk of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) in resource-poor communities. CLAN's strategic framework for action will be utilised by all partners in this commitment to promote a rights-based, community development and person-centred approach to reducing global inequities for children living with chronic health conditions in low- and middle-income countries in Africa and South East Asia. In particular, CLAN will support Atfaal's efforts to strengthen the Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia and Osteogenesis Imperfecta communities in Pakistan, and the Kakamega Children's Library's efforts to support the Rheumatic Heart Disease community in Kenya. We commit USD $100,000 to multi-sectoral engagement and capacity building to drive sustainable, scalable change. Our partnerships will maintain communities of children and families as the visual hub of collaborative action and will focus on CLAN's five pillars: (1) affordable access to essential medicines and equipment; (2) education, research and advocacy; (3) optimization of medical management; (4) encouragement of family support groups; (5) and promoting financial independence to improve quality of life for children living with NCDs in Pakistan and Kenya. Faith Alliance for Health The Faith Alliance for Health is honoured to contribute to the new Global Strategy for Women's, Children's and Adolescents' Health to end preventable maternal, newborn and child deaths by 2030 by mobilizing 1 million faith leaders to reach 50 million families or an estimated 250 million people living in countries with a high burden of child deaths from 2016 to 2020. We believe that by identifying and then supporting a cadre of highly influential faith leaders to educate their communities in the behaviours that are most likely to result in healthy, thriving children, this initiative will have a significant impact on reducing child mortality and morbidity and accelerating achievement of Sustainable Development Goals 2 and 3. In the course of implementing this commitment between 2016 and 2020, the Faith Alliance for Health partners will select a subset of high-burden countries, with an initial focus on Nigeria, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, and Uganda to (1) identify 1 million faith leaders in target geographies; (2) establish or reinforce existing national level faith alliances to empower and equip the identified faith leaders to improve child health; (3) support national faith alliances, multi-faith where relevant, to develop national plans for faith mobilization for child health promotion and disease prevention; (4) at global and national levels, leverage expertise of global partners to document and share lessons learned and best practices. The Faith Alliance for Health commits $464,580,000 of in-kind support and staff time to this effort. Global Breastfeeding Advocacy Initiative (UNICEF / WHO) The Global Breastfeeding Advocacy Initiative is comprised of 1000 Days, the Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine, Action Against Hunger, Alive and Thrive, A Promise Renewed, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Carolina Global Breastfeeding Institute, Concern Worldwide, Helen Keller International, International Baby Food Action Network, the International Lactation Consultant Association, the International Society for Research in Human Milk and Lactation, Save the Children, USAID, the World Alliance of Breastfeeding Action, and World Vision, led by UNICEF and WHO, with financial support from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. We commit to increasing awareness about breastfeeding and advocating for increased political


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commitment to and investment for breastfeeding programmes and supportive policies. Our advocacy efforts will be focused on accelerating progress towards reaching or exceeding the World Health Assembly global target, calling on governments to support increasing exclusive breastfeeding rates for children under six months of age to at least 50 percent by 2025. Advocacy efforts will also aim to increase early initiation of breastfeeding for newborns. From 2015-18 we will foster leadership and alliances and effectively integrate and communicate breastfeeding messages; mobilize resources and promote accountability and build knowledge and evidence to enhance breastfeeding policies, programmes, financing and communication. GTR (Regional Task Force for the Reduction of Maternal Mortality) The Regional Task Force for the Reduction of Maternal Mortality (GTR, acronym in Spanish) is the regional mechanism that joins the efforts of United Nations agencies, bilateral and multilateral organizations, professional networks, and civil society organizations to promote programs and policies to reduce maternal morbidity and mortality in LAC. The GTR developed an Interagency Strategic Consensus for the Reduction of Maternal Morbidity and Mortality in LAC, with broad participation of representatives of LAC governments, civil society and other strategic partners. This document has served as a guide for interagency work in prevention of maternal morbidity and mortality in countries. Since 2012, the GTR has focused on strengthening maternal mortality surveillance and response systems in the region through surveys and guidelines. Through its $500,000 commitment, GTR commits to provide technical assistance to at least 10 countries in Latin America and the Caribbean to strengthen national maternal mortality surveillance and response systems over the next 5 years. Particular emphasis will be given to improving monitoring and response to deaths of women and girls in rural and indigenous areas. GTR commits to promote engagement of relevant UN Agencies, professional networks, regional bodies, governments and civil society in the implementation of participatory accountability mechanisms to improve access of women and girls to respectful maternity care over the next 5 years. HRP (the UNDP/UNFPA/WHO/World Bank Special Programme of Research, Development and Research Training in Human Reproduction) The commitment is based on more than 40 years of experience and expertise at the UNDP/UNFPA/UNICEF/WHO/World Bank Special Programme of Research, Development and Research Training in Human Reproduction, Department of Reproductive Health and Research, World Health Organization (WHO) on research and research capacity strengthening in reproductive, maternal, newborn, child, and adolescent health, as well as the University of North Carolina Gillings School of Global Public Health through the WHO Collaborating Centre at the Department of Maternal and Child Health, which is a member of the Global Implementation University and the Global Implementation initiative, bringing together implementation science expertise at the international level. HRP conducts research capacity strengthening activities in all six WHO regions adding three to five institutions annually and providing research training and mentorship grants. The HRP Alliance provides the regional network supporting all of the research capacity strengthening activities. HRP commits to: (1) Research capacity strengthening of at least 40 institutions in low- and middle-income countries; (2) Evidence synthesis to inform policy and practice guidance for innovations and for implementation of national, regional and global programmes, as well as for scaling up innovations; (3) Conduct research to generate new knowledge on priority topics related to health interventions, implementation and scaling methods, and system functioning in targeted countries. (4) Bridge the gap between evidence and research providers and policymakers, to provide evidence and technical input when programmes are conceived, developed, implemented and evaluated, in at


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least 30 low- and middle-income countries, in their commitments to improve health of women, children and adolescents, by 2030. Ikea Foundation / Clinton Health Access Initiative The IKEA Foundation is joining forces with CHAI to save nearly 40,000 children’s lives by 2016 with a four-year commitment of €20 million/USD $25 million to increase access to life-saving medicines. Every year more than 800,000 children die needlessly from diarrhea, the 2nd leading cause of child deaths globally which can be easily prevented with simple treatment – zinc and oral rehydration salts (ORS). The IKEA Foundation is joining forces with the Clinton Health Access Initiative, Inc. (CHAI) to save nearly 40,000 children’s lives by 2015, by ensuring that the majority of all children suffering diarrhea in both Kenya and two of the poorest states in India—Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh —are receiving the right treatment. The IKEA Foundation is supporting CHAI with a four-year commitment of €20 million/USD $25 million to increase children’s access to life-saving medicines. CHAI will partner with governments to drive an ambitious, large-scale approach that builds demand for zinc and ORS, and also ensures widespread availability of quality products in public and private health facilities and retail outlets. To create demand, CHAI will pursue a commercial approach that educates moms on the right treatment for their child’s diarrhea and ensures that health workers fully understand the benefits of zinc and ORS over alternatives. CHAI will also encourage manufacturers to develop more child-friendly formulations than currently exists in low-income markets, for example pre-mixed “juice box” versions of ORS that eliminate the need for clean drinking water. International Federation of Gynocology and Obstetrics / International Confederation of Midwives / International Pediatric Association The Health Care Professionals Associations (HCPA) sitting on the Board of the Partnership for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health (the Partnership), FIGO, ICM, and IPA are collectively committed to working together towards achieving the goals of the updated Global Strategy for Women, Children and Adolescents Health. Following an earlier commitment in 2010, FIGO, ICM and IPA are proposing a joint commitment to support the achievement of the goals of the 2016-2030 Global Strategy. ICM, IPA and FIGO commit to meet annually to review workplans and identify areas for collaborative activity towards sustainable collaboration and more effective and efficient use of resources aimed at improving access to quality services along the continuum of care from sexual and reproductive health through to newborn, child and adolescent health. The HCPAs commit to undertaking joint resource mobilization to implement joint planned activities. Annual collaborative efforts, estimated at USD $60,000,000 of in-kind contributions per year, will aim to increase the capacity of constituent health workers to deliver quality services across the continuum of care through training of health workers and development, adoption of and compliance with accreditation, guidelines and regulations as part of their standards of care for labor and delivery, including during humanitarian crisis. International Non-Governmental Organizations The International Confederation of Midwives, United Nations Foundation, Save the Children, White Ribbon Alliance, World YWCA and World Vision commit to lead a collaborative global effort to mobilise and support key civil society constituencies, including health professionals, women, faith groups and young people to respond to the challenges set out in the Global Strategy. The movement will aim to build a climate of ambition and expectation around ending preventable newborn, child and maternal deaths and stillbirths, and build a culture of accountability that drives implementation and learning. We will bring together our offices, networks and members in at least ten countries, working at a sub-national and national level. We will build on the work of the Citizens' Hearings, by tracking commitments, ensuring civil society and citizen participation in national and global accountability mechanisms, and


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advocating for equitable health outcomes for women and children. Our work will include strengthening national coalitions, coming together at the international level at key moments; delivering national level campaigning to strengthen citizen engagement and respond to locally generated campaigns; advocating for universal coverage of high-quality, essential services; and developing joint partnerships with donors and the private sector to secure funding and promote corporate responsibility. We will work together to define priorities and countries by the 2016 World Health Assembly. Kenya Collective Action In support of the Global Strategy for Women’s, Children’s and Adolescents’ health and Kenya’s Beyond Zero Campaign, a new public-private partnership, is being launched in Kenya. This ground-breaking initiative will harness the strength, resources and expertise of the private sector, in alignment with the Global Financing Facility and close collaboration with the Government of Kenya, United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), World Bank and other partners. Kenya is among the 10 most dangerous countries for pregnant women. UNFPA is leading the implementation of the H4+ partners 6 County Initiative in Kenya. These 6 out of 47 counties have been identified because of their remoteness and very high burden of maternal death. They contribute to nearly 50% of all maternal deaths in Kenya. The private sector's collective action will target a number of activities in these 6 counties, notably: strengthening supply chain management for health commodities; increasing availability and demand for youth friendly health services; capacity building for health professionals; innovations to health management systems; increasing access to energy for facilities, youth empowerment; research; and resource mobilization. Over 3.5 million women, newborns, children, adolescents and family members will be reached through this initiative by 2020. Companies that have signed onto the initiative include: Safaricom, MSD, Philips, GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) and Huawei. Kenya Healthcare Federation and UNFPA will convene partners and coordinate the implementation of this joint-commitment. We will continue enrolling companies to the initiative on an on-going basis. Latin American and Caribbean Neonatal Alliance The Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) Neonatal Alliance is committed to promoting the engagement of relevant professional networks, national alliances, and civil society in the implementation of participatory accountability mechanisms to improve access and quality of care to newborns. The Latin American Neonatal Alliance is committed to promoting: (1) the inclusion of relevant issues on newborn health in policies, strategies and plans of action both at regional and national level; (2) a Regional Forum for sharing experiences and state of the art research and evidence based interventions for newborn health and its implementation; and (3) the development and strengthening of monitoring and surveillance for newborn health. The expected impact of this $120,000 commitment will come through national and local actions through plans of action for newborn health, aligned with the Every Newborn Action Plan. NCD Child / American Academy of Pediatrics / CLAN NCD Child commits to integrating children, adolescents and a life-course approach within national NCD prevention strategies. Prevention of secondhand smoke exposure as a risk factor for low birthweight, prematurity and newborn mortality have been identified as targets of relevance to both NCDs and maternal and child survival. Similarly, nutrition goals, injury prevention, and prevention of toxic stress are relevant to child health. NCD Child also commits to efforts that integrate children, adolescents and a life-course approach within national NCD treatment strategies. CLAN's strategic framework for action provides a sustainable, scalable


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model for a range of stakeholders to engage with and support child and youth NCD communities to drive long-term change that will enable all children to enjoy the highest quality of life possible. Access to essential medicines, including appropriate preparations needed for children and youth, and access to services appropriate for children with cancer, heart disease, asthma, diabetes and other special health care needs must be planned into health systems. Planning and strengthening sustainable systems of care for children youth and families also must include youth and family voices as full participants in development of plans, implementation, and improvement processes. NCD Child commits USD $650,000 per year from January 2015 through December 2017. Sumitomo / United Nations Foundation Today, there are a record number of refugees and families displaced by conflict across sub-Saharan Africa – nearly all of whom are vulnerable to malaria. This year, the United Nations Foundation’s Nothing But Nets Campaign launched The Million Nets Pledge to protect refugee families from malaria with one million bednets and other malaria interventions by 2016. Sumitomo Chemical is partnering with the United Nations Foundation’s Nothing But Nets campaign in The Million Nets Pledge to provide live-saving long-lasting insecticidal nets (LLINs) to refugees and internally displaced persons across Africa where 90% of malaria deaths occur. The commitment includes a co-funded contribution of 500,000 LLINs (USD $1.75 million in value), which will protect at least 1 million people, an estimated 75% of whom are women and children. The contribution will have an extended impact through a matching gift challenge to grassroots malaria advocates around the globe who are committed to the fight against malaria and to protecting families through contributions in support of The Million Nets Pledge. Refugees and their families face unspeakable odds. After all they have endured and survived, they should not have to worry about dying from a mosquito bite. We are committed to protecting them so they can rebuild, be healthy, and thrive. White Ribbon Alliance / Bayer Bayer and White Ribbon Alliance commit to the prevention of maternal, newborn and child death through the application of self-care policy advancement and self-care community level intervention programs in the areas of nutrition, hygiene, preventative care and minor treatments. This commitment will: (1) Promote improved maternal, newborn and child health through improved policies on self-care and self-care’s role in community health over a three year period; (2) Implement 3 community based self-care intervention programs in the area of nutrition, prevention and minor treatments, and hygiene over 18 months; and (3) Contribute to learning and expanded partnerships in self-care over a three year period. Our aspiration is to focus on the efforts of this commitment to raising awareness of self-care by strengthening leadership and knowledge gaps. This initial commitment will be focused on multiple countries and at the subnational level -- 3 separate communities in separate countries - with a focus on policy development at the global level. The commitment will span from September 2015 until December 2017, and is valued at $15,000,000.


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NON GOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS Action Against Hunger USA Action Against Hunger, a humanitarian non-governmental organization (NGO) and part of a global international network, is pleased to be part of the Every Woman Every Child movement. Action Against Hunger commits to sustainable, community-based interventions addressing nutrition treatment,preventive care, including promoting early child feeding practices for women and children. Working with a wide range of academic, institutional, public and private partners, we plan to commit up to USD $50,500,000 from January 2016 through December 2020 to enhance our nutrition programs using a multi-sectoral approach, accelerating the reduction of maternal and child under-nutrition, and contributing to fulfilling many of the Sustainable Development Goals. Through this commitment, Action Against Hunger aims to improve the lives of some 590,000 women and 2.9 million children annually over the next five years in sub-Saharan Africa and South East Asia. This includes support for more than 12,000 vaccinations per year; nutrition treatment for 96,000 children and 5,000 pregnant and lactating women; and provision of micronutrients to nearly 60,000 women. In total, we plan to reach 17 million children and women of reproductive age by 2020. Advocacy on Human Development Advocacy on Human Development commits to promote family planning in peri urban areas in Zambia. We will advocate to for family planning, access to healthcare and prevention of unsafe delivery. We will engage 1600 adolescents and women to acquire knowledge on family planning and safe delivery. We expect the following outcomes: (1) By the year 2020 maternal deaths due to unsafe delivery by the pregnant mothers would be prevented and encouraged through attendance of antenatal clinic sessions; (2) By the year 2020 family planning would be promoted in peri urban areas in order to have sustainable and manageable sized families. (3) By the year 2020 health centres would be advocated to operate 24hrs/7days to allow pregnant mothers and sick children to attend health centres to reduce maternal and child mortality. African Youth and Adolescents Network (AfriYAN) AfriYAN will train and equip a total of 150 young leaders from 10 countries in East and Southern Africa with required knowledge and skills in high impact, evidence based adolescent health advocacy and accountability to advocate for policies and programs at country level to prioritise adolescent health. The young leaders will also be trained in youth led accountability to hold their governments accountable to their commitments in the global strategy to improve adolescent health outcomes. The young leaders shall be sourced from AfriYAN country networks in the ten


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countries who are also leaders of youth led and youth serving organizations in these countries. The young leaders will be trained and supported to develop country specific youth led accountability frame works to monitor and track progress on the implementation of adolescent health commitments in their countries. The time line for the above commitment is 2020. The expected outcome/ indicator is at least a national law, policy or program in each of the 10 countries that prioritizes adolescent health interventions in the program implementation frameworks. Amref Health Africa Amref Health Africa, in partnership with its donors and sponsors will be investing an additional US $20million ($6.6million per year over three years) in maternal and child health programs, specifically to train midwives in eight countries across Africa. Amref Health Africa, in partnership with its donors and sponsors, will invest an additional US $20 million over three years in maternal and child health programs to retrain 8,000 existing midwives in eight countries to update their skills in saving the lives of mothers and newborns. This additional training will enable Amref Health Africa to reach, per year, four million women of reproductive age and assist in the delivery and care of 800,000 newborns. This initiative will contribute to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) under the Proposed Goal 3, which seeks to “increase substantially health financing and the recruitment, development and training and retention of the health workforce in developing countries.” The result of this commitment will be four million women impacted annually through maternal health services and education and 800,000 newborns delivered Specific. This commitment will also include training for an additional 8,000 midwives in Africa Measurable by 2018. Amref Health Africa's core competency is training health workers. We use innovative technology such as mHealth to train midwives in hard-to-reach communities across Africa making scalability in reaching targeted goals an achievable commitment. Buddhist Global Relief Buddhist Global Relief announces a commitment of USD $1,600,000 over the five-year period from 2016 to 2020 in support of the updated Global Strategy. We expect this commitment to have approximately 16,000 direct beneficiaries. We will seek to fulfill this commitment through our regular projects, which operate in the following areas: (1) provide direct food aid to people afflicted by hunger and malnutrition; (2) develop better long-term methods of sustainable food production and management, appropriate to the cultures and traditions of the beneficiaries; (3) promote the education of girls and women, so essential in the struggle against poverty and malnutrition; (4) give women an opportunity to start right livelihood projects to support their families. We also seek to raise awareness of global hunger and advocate for an international food system that exemplifies social justice and conduces to ecological sustainability. This commitment is made based on the need to combat chronic hunger and malnutrition, provide livelihood opportunities for poor women, and support the education of poor children, especially girls. Buddhist Tzu Chi Foundation The Buddhist Tzu Chi Foundation commits to reducing mortality rates while increasing the quality of life among women and children through the provision of direct healthcare services, education, and training; and to the monitoring and tracking of patients/clients data for greater accountability. From the period of January 2016 to December 2030, the Tzu Chi International Medical Association (TIMA) will implement bi-annual health screening and immunizations clinics in villages and communities in Haiti, South Africa, and Vietnam, while trained commissioners conduct home visits to identify patients and provide health and sex education and training in a


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culturally appropriate manner. Buddhist Tzu Chi Foundation commits a total USD $3,000,000 to this effort towards the provision of healthcare services, education, and training as related to health and medicine, WASH, and food and nutrition. It is through direct provision of health screenings and immunizations by TIMA compounded with home visits by certified Tzu Chi commissioners living in region, who provide health education and training—WASH, sexual health education, breastfeeding—that helps leverage the need for women to have family planning, as well as the need to prevent death during pregnancy and childbirth and from communicable, non-communicable diseases, and cancers related to reproductive health. Club des Amis du Monde (CAM) Le Club des Amis du Monde (CAM) commits to contributing to the improvement of health outcomes of women, children and adolescents in Guinea by undertaking community based programmes deploying 120 community health workers through 2017. Through this programme, CAM will provide a range of services to women and children during the 1,000 days window from conception to the second birthday. The programme will provide food supplements to 3,000 undernourished babies between the age of six and twenty three months, provide 3,000 pregnant of breastfeeding women with hygiene kits, provide training and nutrition to 3,000 women through community cooking seminars and promote healthy, nutritious and hygienic behaviour through communication campaigns. It will also include the screening and referral of children with severe malnutrition to health centers for their care, and the promotion of health centre visits for pre- and post-natal consultations, immunization, and family planning services, including birth spacing. A secondary aspect of the CAM commitment will involve capacity-building of 165 district-level health authorities through: technical support for training supervision in nutrition, the development of nutrition policy documents, and advocacy for the integration of nutrition activities in the minimum package of activities of health facilities. Lastly, technical support will reinforce Ebola prevention and control. COFESFA The Collectif des Femmes pour l’Education la Santé Familiale et l’Assainissement (Women’s Collective for Women for Education, Family Health and Sanitation, COFESFA YIRIWATON) will contribute to increasing early childhood development, the enrolment of children in primary school, and women’s empowerment in Mali. COFESFA will do this by increasing awareness, access to information and capacity of local public authorities on required investments in education – particularly health education. COFESFA will also facilitate increased accessibility and of the use of guidelines and best practices on adolescent sexual and reproductive health services, education and protection with a view to improving quality of services. Through a 2016-2020 workplan geared at achieving the aforementioned objectives, COFESFA aims to reach over 176,000 adolescents, 120,000 women, 32,000 children and 52,000 newborns between 2016 and 2020. COFESFA will spend over $280,000 on these activities in 2016 alone. Eminence Eminence Associates for Social Development (Eminence) is committed to providing quality service at low and affordable cost for children, mothers, and pregnant women in their programmatic zones. Services will be provided in eight geographical areas of Bangladesh with urban health care settings from January 2016 through December 2030. Under each healthcare setting each year, approximately 370 pregnant women (total 2,960), 370 mothers (total 2,960) and their children will get quality services at low and affordable cost. Services will be provided in static healthcare settings as well as through raising awareness among mothers and relatives through household visits and court yard meetings. In each setting, every month there will be approximately 1,500 household visits, 60 courtyard meetings, including with husbands and


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fathers. Services will also include access to medication for all, as well as immunization for children. Eminence believes that, interventions for both women and babies at the same time in the same place by the same health care provider/team will have the highest impact on saving lives and improving health outcomes. Eminence estimates that the value of this commitment is BDT 631,701,000 (or USD $8,120,484) in health expenditure for women and their children over the course of this commitment timeline. Enfants du Monde Enfants du Monde commits to support governments and local organizations to empower women, men, families and communities in Bangladesh, Burkina Faso, El Salvador and Haiti to improve maternal and neonatal health (MNH) and to increase access to quality MNH services. We will advocate to and support Ministries of Health to integrate/strengthen a health promotion component within their MNH strategies and support the local health sector to strengthen community participation within health services, providing education to improve self-care and care-seeking behaviour, strengthening linkages between communities and health services, and improving the quality of care and interaction between health care providers and their clients. We will support Ministries of Health directly or through local NGOs to implement health promotion as a component of national MNH strategies, supporting them to operationalize the World Health Organization’s framework for Working with Individuals, Families and Communities (IFC) to improve MNH. Every Mother Counts Every Mother Counts will aim to invest a minimum of $1 million annually between 2016 and 2030 to programs aimed at improving maternal and newborn health and reducing mortality in more than 10 countries. We will aim to directly, meaningfully impact at least 5 million lives through the programs we support by 2030. We will build and nurture our community to over 2 million committed individuals who are educated about maternal health and actively raising awareness and taking actions on behalf of our organization. We will continue to advocate publicly at every level for increased attention and resources to maternal health, and to elevate the public profile of individuals, organizations and initiatives working to do the same. Family Care International Experience under the first Global Strategy has shown that an active, engaged civil society is essential to demanding change and to holding governments accountable for making sure that change happens. Family Care International will build on our original commitment to the Global Strategy, working with partners in many countries to strengthen the capacity of national and community organizations to effectively advocate for the health and rights of women and children; to build civil society alliances that amplify the voices of families and communities; to partner with champions in and outside of government to build a culture of transparency and accountability; and to ensure that the needs of underserved populations and under-represented countries are heard and addressed. The estimated value of this commitment is $10 million dollars for the period 2016-2020. General Board of Global Ministries The United Methodist Church commits to reaching 1 million children with lifesaving interventions from 2016 - 2020 by supporting efforts of faith based partners in Nigeria, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Liberia, Mozambique, Sierra Leone, and Haiti. The initiative aims to achieve a 25% reduction in childhood morbidity and mortality in the targeted communities over a five-year period. By 2020, the program aims to (1) provide mothers and households with the education and support needed to make their children thrive; (2) increase access to and


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utilization of 13 child survival commodities in targeted communities through a community driven model; and 3) increase availability of diagnosis and treatment services for childhood killer diseases in targeted communities. Global Ministries commits USD $10 million in medications, supplies, and commodities, in addition to volunteer hours, as well as USD $30 million to faith-based partners working in rural and underserved communities to in order to reach this commitment. The General Board of Global Ministries, the global mission agency of the United Methodist Church, connects 12.5 million members of the UMC on four continents with ministries in more than 130 countries. Together we are alleviating suffering, promoting justice, freedom, and peace. Girls Not Brides Over the next five years, Girls Not Brides: The Global Partnership to End Child Marriage commits to supporting the implementation of target 5.3 of the new Global Goals: to end child, early and forced marriage by 2030. We will continue to build a global movement, advocating for stronger UN resolutions and global and regional commitments, learning more about effective approaches, and pushing for increased funding towards efforts to end child marriage. We will support governments to develop and implement funded, cross-sectoral policies, programmes and plans to end child marriage that engage all ministries and stakeholders, including civil society, children and youth. We will also continue to encourage existing and potential donors to increase their funding commitments and to incorporate child marriage into existing programming (for example on education, health, gender equality and economic development). This commitment will be implemented from January 2016 to December 2020. IMA World Health Using a health systems strengthening approach and leveraging partnerships with local non-governmental and faith-based organizations, IMA World Health commits to prioritize maternal, newborn, and child health in the Democratic Republic of Congo and the Republic of South Sudan, investing an estimated USD $195 million from September 2015 through December 2018. IMA uses a multi-pronged approach that integrates improvements for high quality maternal and child health services with health promotion and outreach, to also include delivery of health system solutions to ensure appropriate financing, human resources, leadership, access to health information, supply chain improvements, and infrastructure to sustain the delivery of maternal and child health services. In the Democratic Republic of Congo and the Republic of South Sudan, IMA is building the capacity of public health systems and national partners. Leveraging these primary relationships, IMA facilitates the integration of nutrition and water, sanitation and hygiene interventions as needed to address gaps and build on existing capacity. During the 2013-2015 conflict in the Republis of South Sudan, IMA bridged development and humanitarian approaches by staffing health clinics in settings with internally displaced persons (IDPs) with health workers who were IDPs themselves. The commitment also ensures that services are provided within humanitarian settings through the use of mobile clinics that provide health and nutrition services and awareness. International Planned Parenthood Federation Between 2016 and 2020 IPPF will provide: (1) 103 million (cumulative) Couple Years of Protection thereby averting 36.2 million unwanted pregnancies and 4.1 million unsafe abortions; (2) 630 million (cumulative) sexual and reproductive health services to young people. IPPF will also continue to work to promote women’s empowerment, and to eliminate sexual and gender-based violence, female genital mutilation and early and forced marriage. IPPF’s determination to serve the under-served and most marginalised groups, as well as to reach those affected by humanitarian crises also continues. IPPF is a global leader in sexual and reproductive health


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and rights, and has been at the vanguard of delivering comprehensive voluntary family planning services for over 60 years. We are a consortium of 161 autonomous Member Associations that work through an extensive network of 60,277 service delivery points located in communities, clinics and outreach services. IPPF will focus on expanding access to and quality of comprehensive sexuality education around the world. At the same time, we will run popular campaigns to mobilize those who support sexual and reproductive health and rights. IPPF will strengthen sexual and reproductive health services in humanitarian settings by improving access before, during and after conflicts and crisis situations. Ipas Ipas will support expanded access to safe abortion and post-abortion care for over a half million women per year through training of clinical providers and collaboration with national health systems in 15 or more countries to develop and update guidelines. Ipas will support local partners in these countries in advocating for full implementation of existing laws and reform of abortion laws and policies where needed to decriminalize abortion and remove barriers to women’s access. We will support more than 100 community-based organizations in assuring that women have the knowledge, skills, and social support to exercise their sexual and reproductive health and rights, including safe abortion. Through our partner, WomanCare Global, we will contribute financially to the global manufacturing and distribution of more than 150,000 Ipas manual vacuum aspiration instruments per year, helping to assure safe abortion-related care for nearly 4 million women annually. Ipas commits at least USD $50 million per year from June 2015 through July 2020. Through this commitment, we are contributing to averting more than 3,000 maternal deaths per year and many more by contributing to an enabling political and legal environment the global, regional, and national level. March of Dimes The March of Dimes commits to the updated Global Strategy for Women’s, Children’s, and Adolescents’ Health through the following actions. March of Dimes commits to continuing its Prematurity Campaign through 2020, working to reduce the preterm birth rate in the United States to 8.1 per cent or less, and helping to build a global constituency to reduce the toll of death and disability caused by preterm birth worldwide. The March of Dimes Prematurity Campaign devotes approximately USD $20 million annually to: (1) fund biomedical research and trans-disciplinary research aimed at delineating the multi-factorial causes of premature birth; (2) collaborate with state governments, hospitals and lower-income country partners to enhance the quality and accessibility of preconception, prenatal, inter-conception and newborn care; (3) provide education and consumer awareness campaigns to promote health behaviours that reduce risk of prematurity, and 4) provide guidance and comfort to parents of premature babies. March of Dimes commits to provide at least USD $60 million to support five trans-disciplinary research centres on premature birth at leading institutions in the United States. From 2014 – 2020, March of Dimes commits to continuing to lead World Prematurity Day, held annually on 17 November as an open platform for organizations to focus attention on premature birth as the leading cause of death of children under the age of five, and to advocate for further action on prevention. Marie Stopes International On the basis of the new strategy Scaling-up Excellence: A strategy for sustainable contraception and safe abortion: 2016-2020 which will be launched at the International Family Planning Conference in Bali, Marie Stopes International’s commitment is: (1) To reach 12 million new additional long acting and permanent method contraception users by 2020, representing 10% of FP2020’s overall goal to enable 120 million more women and girls to access


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contraception by 2020. (2)To double our number of users, providing quality contraception and safe abortion services to 40 million individuals by 2020, prioritizing the most underserved and marginalized communities; (3) To provide 6 million safe abortion and post-abortion care services; and (4) To remove unnecessary policy restrictions to increase access to reproductive health services (information, supplies and services) and decrease the cost of providing these services. Through these actions Marie Stopes International will contribute all three of the Global Strategy objectives by enabling women, girls and adolescents to survive (reducing maternal mortality and unsafe abortion) and thrive (ensuring women and girls have reproductive choice and equitable access to quality sexual and reproductive health services), and transforming operating environments through strengthening health systems, removing unnecessary restrictions which prevent access to lifesaving services and advocating for evidence based resource allocation and policy formulation. mothers2mothers mothers2mothers commits $23,500,000 from Jan 2016 to Dec 2017 to implementing our proven Mentor Mother Model to eliminate pediatric AIDS and improve the health and wellbeing of women, children, and families. m2m will continue to enhance the quality and capacity of overburdened healthcare by unlocking the potential of women through education, employment, and support. m2m will look for opportunities to integrate our model to better serve children and adolescents; keeping mothers at the forefront, as a healthy generation starts with mothers. m2m is committed to improving linkages between clinics and communities to promote early presentations, retention in care, and adherence to treatment. The program will reach 832,000 pregnant women (HIV positive and negative) assuming 300 middle to high volume operational sites for 2016 and 2017 as the basis for calculating total client numbers enrolled in the program. Noor Community Welfare Trust (NOCWET) NOCWET has committed to establish an international collaborative model for improving maternal and child morbidity and mortality in Sargodha, Pakistan by teaming up with The Partnership for Maternal Newborn and Child Health. NOCWET has already built a well-equipped charity hospital that serves various communities of over 100,000 people. NOCWET aims to establish a school, adjacent to its existing rural hospital, to train midwives and other birth attendants to enable them to manage obstetric emergencies in worst-case scenarios. Midwives will also be trained in triaging high-risk pregnancies to the nearest tertiary centre. The aim of this project is to contribute to meeting the targets of Global Strategy for Women’s, Children’s and Adolescents’ Health. NOCWET has committed to raising awareness of malnutrition, partnering with the local government’s Lady Health Workers Network to provide food supplements to deprived mothers (both pregnant and lactating). We plan to reach 50,000 unprivileged mothers in the next five years. NOCWET also commits to addressing the social determinants of health by developing an awareness program to prevent early age marriages and to promote family planning. The capacity of existing vocational training schools of NOCWET will be tripled in next five years so that academic and job opportunities can be expanded for adolescent females. To minimize parasitic infection and reduce malnutrition and a host of other illnesses, clean drinking water units will be installed and sewerage systems will be developed to benefit a population of 50,000. OAFRESS The Organisation d’Afrique Francophone pour le Renforcement des Systèmes de Santé et de la Vaccination (Francophone Africa Organization for Health Systems Strengthening and Vaccination, OAFRESS) commits to holding all francophone governments that are members of the OAFRESS platform to account for the commitments that they have made to improving


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maternal, newborn and child health. Starting in 2016, the OAFRESS Platform will produce an annual report on progress made by countries on national, regional and global goals they have committed to – including those related specifically to immunization. These reports will support civil society advocacy for better results and resources for women’s and children’s health, and will support advocacy on global goals, including that the 17 countries in Francophone Africa dedicate at least 15% of their national budgets to their Ministries of Health by 2020. The reports will be disseminated via the membership network of the OAFRESS Platform as well as the Civil Society Organization Constituency of Gavi, and other partners. PATH PATH commits US$1 billion over five years to improve the affordability, accessibility, and effectiveness of health interventions and mobilize diverse partners to bring lifesaving innovations to scale. We will advance nearly 100 promising health technologies—including vaccines, drugs, diagnostics, and devices—and 80 system and service innovations in more than 70 countries. Partnering with countries, we will identify and advance high-impact technologies and approaches to prevent and treat the greatest causes of morbidity and mortality among women, newborns, adolescents, and children, to reach more than 500 million people. As a component of this commitment, PATH will also identify, evaluate, and showcase high-impact technologies and ideas to raise awareness about the role of innovation in accelerating progress toward the 2030 health targets. Based on the learnings and methodology of our Innovation Countdown 2030 initiative, a platform designed to map innovations with high potential for public health impact over the next 15 years, our effort will enable innovators to connect with one another, breaking down silos between health areas and technology platforms and changing how innovations are developed and made accessible to women, children and adolescents who need them. Pathfinder In the next three years as of July 2015, Pathfinder International re-commits to the Every Woman Every Child Global Strategy 2.0 by expanding efforts to increase women’s access to postpartum and post-abortion contraception in all countries where it is implementing family planning projects. By the end of three years, Pathfinder will commit estimate USD $38,300,000 to reach the target commitment, serving 2.4 million women through Pathfinder-supported postpartum and post-abortion services, and anticipate that 500,000 of them will have started using contraception. Pathfinder International has nearly 60 years of experience strengthening service delivery systems for contraceptive services and is committed to building the capacity of local government institutions and NGO partners. Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA) Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA) will build on previous commitments to achieve the highest standard of sexual and reproductive health and rights for adolescent, youth, and women. PPFA commits USD $12,000,000 over the next two years to: (1) Support six new partners in Africa and three new partners in Latin America to launch Youth Peer Provider models; (2) Nominate and sponsor global youth advocacy fellows in the United States to attend United Nations and other international meetings and design global health campaigns in their home communities; and global youth ambassadors to travel to and work with Planned Parenthood Global’s country programs; (3) host sub-regional youth organizing training institutes across the United States and one national youth organizing conference to reach 1,500 young Americans with communications and advocacy skills; (4) train at least four local or international colleague institutions in model implementation and print and disseminate a trainers manual to enable other organizations working with young people to implement the model, and translate


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this manual in Spanish; and (5) conduct digital outreach to bring real-time global health policy information to young people across the United States through Planned Parenthood websites and social media platforms, which receive more than four million visits each month. Population Council The Population Council commits to support the Global Strategy by developing sustainable methods for increasing access to and use of maternal and newborn healthcare. We will build the evidence base on health vouchers in East Africa and South and Southeast Asia, measuring program impact and increasing awareness of the benefits and challenges of vouchers, and developing standard performance measures for voucher programs. We will expand the use of proven interventions to prevent and treat pre-eclampsia and eclampsia program activities in partnership with national obstetrician, gynecologist and midwifery societies in Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Nigeria, and Pakistan. We will develop an international “Eclampsia Network” to share lessons learned and inform strategies to prevent, detect, and manage pre-eclampsia and eclampsia within routine maternal health care. We will use findings from ‘Ending Eclampsia’ to advocate for this issue and improve access to care. We will partner with the Fistula Care Plus to prevent and treat fistula in Bangladesh, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Niger, Nigeria, and Uganda, working with partners to strengthen fistula repair services, enhance community understanding of practices to prevent fistula, improve access to treatment, reduce stigma, reduce barriers to accessing preventive care, detection, treatment, and support, improve the ability of providers, health facilities, and health systems to provide and sustain high-quality fistula care services, strengthening the evidence base, and expand the use of standard monitoring and evaluation and indicators for prevention and treatment. Preventing Cervical Cancer Preventing Cervical Cancer (PINCC) commits the equivalent USD $500,000 per year for five years to the provision of community education and outreach, training of educators and medical providers, and supplying equipment for the diagnosis and treatment of precancerous cervical disease and breast masses, in order to establish sustainable breast and cervical cancer prevention centers in existing health care institutions of developing countries where this care is limited or unavailable, utilizing low-cost, accessible technologies approved by WHO. Specifically, we will provide this service to at least ten sites each year, scaling up as partnerships are engendered and institutions are enrolled. Each site will be trained, equipped and certified within a one-year time frame, becoming competent and confident, keeping records, reporting statistics, providing follow-up and referral as medically appropriate. Our commitment is to seek sites that provide care at an affordable level to the poor, underserved and rural areas where there is greatest need. Restless Development Restless Development will support young people to lead programmes on sexual and reproductive health for adolescents and young women, in support of the Secretary General’s Global Strategy for Women’s Children’s and Adolescents’ Health. We will mobilise over 1,000 young volunteers globally to empower their peers to make healthy choices, to influence policy and hold governments accountable for quality service delivery. In 2016, we will help enable 330,000 young people to access SRH programmes in the countries where we work. We will continue to support global networks and youth organisations to advocate and campaign on sexual reproductive health rights policies and practice. During 2016, we will also design and launch a new five year global strategy expanding our ambitions and as part of that we will make a new five year commitment towards the Global Strategy for Women’s, Children’s and Adolescents’ Health. This


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commitment, valued at approximately $8,000,000, will be implemented from October 2015 to September 2016 in line with our global logical framework, available upon request. Save the Children Save the Children commits to invest $250 million in our global health and nutrition work in 2016. A full five-year commitment (2016-2020) will be submitted by the 2016 World Health Assembly. We will work towards equitable approaches and outcomes in our health and nutrition programmes, measuring our success by the extent to which we improve health outcomes for the poorest and most marginalised children and their communities, including: (1) promoting policy, budgetary, and normative changes in health and nutrition that accelerate progress on ending preventable, newborn, child and adolescent deaths, including stillbirths; (2) strengthening healthcare systems to enable universal coverage of free, high-quality, essential services; (3) building capacity of and mobilizing civil society to hold governments accountable for their SDG commitments on women’s, children’s and adolescents’ health, including through the use of human rights and child rights instruments; (4) expanding and intensifying efforts to support universal coverage of quality care around the time of birth, including skilled birth attendance, and integrating proven interventions to protect mothers and newborns and prevent stillbirths in 12 priority countries; (5) training and advocating for health workers to provide essential healthcare for all, along the continuum of care for women’s and children’s health; and (6) engaging with multi-sector partners to deliver life-saving programming, including in humanitarian settings. Swedish Organization for Global Health During the next five years, from 2015 to 2020, the Swedish Organization for Global Health (SOGH) pledges to increase the health knowledge and expertise of community health workers and health care staff, and improve health literacy and health-seeking behavior of women of reproductive age in Mayuge District of Uganda through our Maama Project. SOGH commits to providing a clean birth kit to every woman who attends four antenatal visits, and strengthen the health care system by investing in supplies, equipment, and training. Additionally, SOGH wishes to contribute to an increase in health facility births (85% of births), increase in the use of safe newborn care practices (90% of newborns) and the use of contraception (70% of women in the reproductive age range). The long-term outcomes we expect include utilisation of community health worker services and antenatal care for all pregnancies and no infection-related newborn deaths. The Circle The efficacy of a human right depends on (1) a person’s ability to legally defend or assert that right, and (2) the responsibility of another person or body to protect that right. The Circle commits to provide or co-ordinate the provision of over $230,000 of legal advice, analysis and drafting, negotiation and multi-stakeholder coordination plus publicity and training materials to assist in the progress towards government and institutional legal accountability for maternal health rights in Tanzania, including regarding the ratification of international conventions and Every Woman Every Child commitments by 31 September 2016. The Circle further commits to assist the provision of publicity and information explaining those maternal health rights to Tanzanian citizens by 31 December 2016, and to produce a toolkit for analysing the legal framework surrounding maternal health rights to be used in other jurisdictions. TakingITGlobal TakingITGlobal and Youth Action Network commit to regularly promoting member stories from adolescent female leaders within our network in connection with recognized international days.


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Through our EQWIP HUBS project, we commit to disaggregating youth data to include and highlight the needs and challenges of adolescents within the focus countries of Tanzania, Ghana, Bolivia, Peru, Indonesia and Senegal. We also commit to leveraging badges for digital learning to support increased understanding of gender issues within these populations by creating a “gender action badge”, and by promoting the local entrepreneurship projects of female entrepreneurs. Through the YouthMovements.org project, we commit to connect and visualize the many groups working on the Health and Gender components of the Sustainable Development Goals and promotion of girls and adolescents. Through the TIGed educators network, we commit to promoting relevant resources and toolkits for adolescent health, mental health and wellbeing, to 42,500 teachers and 100536 students, especially in connection with international days such as Global Dignity Day, Day of the Girl Child and World Mental Health Day. WaterAid Between 2015 and 2020, WaterAid will commit $286,000,000 to achieve the following objectives: (1) Deliver water and sanitation services and promote good hygiene practices through our government and non-governmental organization partners to poor communities in 40 countries by 2020; (2) Advocate for increased investment in and pro-poor targeting of water and sanitation services, with an explicit focus on sustainable, equitable and inclusive solutions aimed at reaching universal access to safe water and sanitation by 2030; (3) Collaborate with health agencies and governments to ensure the implementation and monitoring of WHO’s global essential environmental health standards in healthcare facilities, and support infection prevention and control efforts; (4) Work at all levels to link efforts to achieve water and health goals and targets defined under the sustainable development agenda, in terms of coordination, policy, programme delivery and monitoring; (5) Work at global, regional, national and sub-national levels to ensure the inclusion of WASH aspects in plans for maternal, newborn, child and adolescent health, and in global and national frameworks and plans for delivering and monitoring universal health coverage, including a four-year strategic advocacy focus on child health (‘Healthy Start’); (6) Engage in global and national nutrition coordination processes to ensure the targeting of WASH interventions to countries and areas with a high burden of under-nutrition, and advocate for increased donor and national government investments in nutrition-sensitive interventions; (7) Engage in global and national nutrition coordination processes to ensure the targeting of WASH interventions to countries and areas with a high burden of neglected tropical diseases; and (8) Engage in global and national advocacy on menstrual hygiene and its management. Women Deliver Between 2015 and 2016, Women Deliver commits to supporting the implementation of the Global Strategy for Women’s, Children’s and Adolescents’ Health, the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals so they matter most for girls and women, and the advancement of gender equality, maternal, sexual and reproductive health and rights for girls and women by implementing following four activities: (1) Convene an inspiring triennial Women Deliver conference, Women Deliver 2016 in Copenhagen, which will bring together global leaders to facilitate knowledge exchange and catalyze action; (2) Expand our Young Leaders Program to build the next generation of advocates for girls and women by training 200 more young people to become leaders in their communities; (3) Develop a new advocacy and communications campaign that applies a cross-cutting gender lens to the Sustainable Development Goals, which will help fuel political dialogue and practical action at global and country levels; and (4) Continue ongoing involvement with coalitions and partnerships focused on improving the health, rights, and wellbeing of girls and women. Our commitment will reach more than 150 countries,


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50,000,000 people with communications, over 5,000 conference participants, over 100 partners, and 200 new Young Leaders. The value of the commitment is USD $11,616,000. World Vision International World Vision so profoundly believes in ending preventable maternal and child deaths that we exceeded our 2010 financial commitment of USD $1.5 billion for health, nutrition, HIV & AIDS, and WASH programming and advocacy aligned with the Every Woman Every Child movement’s priorities. Our passion inspired 20 million people in 70 countries to join us in speaking up on behalf of women’s and children’s health through our Child Health Now campaign; this saw many national policies and practices improved as a result. The ambitious vision of the updated Global Strategy has inspired us to do even more: to invest another USD $3 billion in sustainable health programming and in humanitarian emergency responses; in operational research and in advocacy at all levels. Practically this will include 100,000 community health workers trained, citizen engagement strengthened, a BabyWASH multi-stakeholder partnership established, around 300,000 faith leaders mobilised to action in 50 countries, and much more. World Vision is recommitting itself to the Every Woman Every Child vision. Consistent with our policies, programmes and principles as a Christian organisation, we will continue to invest more smartly, to foster and share information and knowledge, and to grow partnerships with anyone who believes in ensuring the most vulnerable stay healthy. White Ribbon Alliance (WRA) White Ribbon Alliance (WRA) believes that lasting change in society comes about when enough people join forces to demand that their government adopts and implements the right national policies, and devotes sufficient resources to deliver those policies. WRA works with citizens and civil society in a country to identify the RMNCAH issue most relevant to them and then organizes and supports grassroots advocacy activities to push the government to prioritize and address the issue. White Ribbon Alliance commits USD $6,500,000 over 3 years to ensure that women, adolescents and newborns in at least eight countries will receive improved RMNCAH services through citizens holding their governments to account for commitments they have made. In Uganda, for example, WRA has successfully mobilized citizens to demand that the government meets it commitment to providing emergency and obstetric newborn care (EMoNC) in health centres. Community members in three districts of Uganda, working in partnership with district health teams, are now actively involved in monitoring the provision of EMoNC and ensuring that the changes brought about by their advocacy are sustained over time. WRA will commit catalyze further change by continuing to convene, mobilize and support citizens and partners in civil society to hold governments to account for the commitments they have made to improve RMNCAH services in their countries. Y-PEER Y-PEER Network is a youth led network functioning globally in 48 countries in Asia Pacific, Arab States and Eastern Europe. Y-PEER announces its commitment to the global strategy on Adolescents' and Girls' health and rights. We will do young people mobilization and political advocacy and raising the awareness of the population towards this issue. Mobilizing young people will be done through outreach activities mainly during our 10 Days Of Activism Campaign held this year at Nov-Dec with the theme (Adolescent' and Girls' Health and Rights) targeting around 60,000 adolescents and young girls in 30 countries. Political advocacy will be a main part of our commitment as we will spare no effort in raising this issue in all the events we are presented in internationally, regionally and nationally. Also, we will seek support from the governments and parliament members on the national level. Finally, Y-PEER is going to provide an extended number of volunteers on the grass root level especially in the humanitarian settings


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and crisis areas to provide support to Adolescents and girls. This commitment and its activities are valued at $15,600,000 from November 2015 to December 2016. Youth Coalition for Sexual and Reproductive Rights The Youth Coalition for Sexual and Reproductive Rights commits to increase the collaboration between youth from the health and education sectors to ensure the integration of Comprehensive Sexuality Education and Youth and Adolescent Friendly Healthcare Services. Through trainings and workshops with young educators and health care providers, the YCSRR will promote a rights-based approach to sexual and reproductive health and rights for youth and adolescents. The YCSRR aims to fulfill this commitment by 2019. Despite the ample evidence that shows the important role of Comprehensive Sexuality Education in reducing unwanted pregnancies, delaying sexual debut, challenging gender norms, among others, many countries fail to recognize its importance and fail to ensure the participation of adolescents and young people, or other relevant sectors and actors, in its implementation. The YCSRR aims to highlight and strengthen the understanding of sexual and reproductive rights of young people in the health and education sectors, both regionally and globally. We recognize that there is a lack of training for education and health providers on how to best address the needs of adolescents and young people, especially those from underserved populations, and hope that this sharing of knowledge and expertise around rights-based approaches will help to fill this gap. YouAct YouAct envisions a world where sexuality is accepted as a positive aspect in life and where the Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR) of young people, including adolescents are realised. YouAct members in 15 countries will dedicate 2 hours per week of their voluntary time to develop, engage and contribute to at least 5 advocacy campaigns and actions that will be demanding to governments that young people, including adolescents have access to comprehensive sexuality education, they can access youth friendly services and can decide freely and responsibly about all aspects of their sexuality and reproductive lives, by 2020. YouAct members in 15 countries will dedicate 2 hours per week of their voluntary time to develop, engage and contribute to education and training materials and will conduct at least 2 workshops that build the knowledge and skills of adolescents, empower them to become agents of change and meaningfully participate in the decisions that affect their lives and support them to connect and join forces to make their voices heard, by 2020.


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PRIVATE SECTOR Adara The Adara Group commits to strengthening maternal, newborn and child health services in Central Uganda to reduce maternal and neonatal mortality and morbidity. We will do this through holistic program development, high-impact interventions and training across the continuum of care to bridge tertiary and primary-level services. Adara will reach women and children in need of services in four districts in central Uganda – home to 600,000 people. Adara commits USD $4.5 million from September 2015 to September 2018 to this effort. Adara will use social, behavioural and clinical research to implement this work in order to understand the communities we are working with and to continually evaluate our programme objectives to identify gaps in delivery of health services for women and babies. The interventions outlined in this commitment will be implemented through targeted research, capacity building, programme design and monitoring, and careful introduction of equipment and technology to serve the catchment area of 600,000 people. Through this commitment, Adara also seeks to change the way people think about the role of business in the world and the power of business/non-profit partnerships, by showcasing globally our innovative business-for-purpose model. Adara’s corporate advisory businesses donate 100% of profits to Adara Development. This covers all administration and core support costs, to allow other donors’ funds to be 100% directed towards projects. Amway Amway Corporation commits to reduce under-nutrition in children under-five with our nutrition expertise and a customized micronutrient supplement. Amway commits to do this by partnering with other companies, organizations and governments in 20 countries by the end of 2019. Lastly, Amway is investigating market-based approaches to implementing nutrition improvement programs to reduce chronic malnutrition in children under-five. Over the next three years, Amway will provide Nutrilite™ Little Bits™, behavior change communication materials and resources to these implementation partners to ensure critical nutrients are incorporated into the daily diets of tens of thousands of children. Amway will provide annual updates on the progress of research, the impact and the number of children who receive Nutrilite™ Little Bits™. Amway provides Nutrilite™ Little Bits™ to INGO and NGO partners that are implementing nutrition, health and measurement programs for malnourished children under 5 and their families.


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Bayer In support of the updated Global Strategy for Women’s, Children’s and Adolescents’ Health BayerHealthCare (BHC) commits to expand its successful youth-centric health programs over the coming five years under the umbrella of the World Contraception Day initiative and its related “It’s Your Life – It’s Your Future” campaign, to supporting increased levels of contraceptive awareness and knowledge about sexual and reproductive health amongst adolescents and youth worldwide through the provision of medically accurate and unbiased sexuality education via national, regional, and global programs. In collaboration with other civil society organizations, NGOs, advocacy groups, and governments, Bayer works to improve the sexual and reproductive health of young people with the goal of ensuring that every pregnancy is wanted. Apart from access to modern contraceptives, self-determined family planning also requires knowledge. Therefore, Bayer commits to supporting World Contraception Day, through financial and in-kind support worth over USD $8,400,000 per year over the next five years. The campaign’s activities culminate every year on September 26 with a wide range of events, press conferences and concerts in about 70 countries all over the world with the mission to improve awareness of all contraceptive methods to enable young people – regardless of whether they are male or female, married or unmarried and sexually active or not – to make informed choices on their sexual and reproductive health. Becton, Dickinson and Company (BD) BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company) has committed to utilize extensive cross-sector collaboration to develop, clinically test, manufacture, and distribute at scale – at favorable conditions in low resource settings – new innovations designed to address leading causes of maternal and newborn mortality and morbidity. The first commitment utilizing this model, presently in clinical studies, is the BD Odon Device™, a new low-cost device for assisted vaginal delivery during circumstances of intrapartum complications, with potential for application by mid-level providers. The investment commitment for this innovation is US$15 - $20 million. At the Every Woman Every Child Innovation Working Group event on 25 September 2015, BD will announce a new, second innovation commitment involving a ground-breaking collaboration with the Global Health Investment Fund (GHIF). Under this first-of-its-kind arrangement, the GHIF is providing R&D financing and BD is making a balance sheet investment to develop and commercialize new low-cost point-of-care tests to diagnose leading, life threatening complications of pregnancy. The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is providing financial support to help ensure any successfully developed products have the best possible chance of reaching those most in need. The investment commitment for development of these tests is US$25 - $30 million. These maternal and newborn health innovations will be developed in the 2015 – 2020 time frame. CHI Pharmaceuticals LTD CHI Pharmaceuticals Ltd will continue to partner with the United Nations, the World Health Organization and advocacy related organizations intervening in the healthcare sector. CHI activities include access creation to essential medicines and products including manufacturing and distribution of insecticide treated nets, participation in the AmFm anti-malaria project, production of vaccines to prevent cervical cancer, and the building of a pharmaceutical manufacturing plant that has secured World Health Organization-Good Manufacturing Practice and U.S. Pharmocopeial ConventionP-Good Manufacturing Practice certification. CHI Pharmaceuticals Ltd commits to provide quality essential medicines including: Low Osmolarity Oral Rehydration Salts; Dispersible Paediatric Zinc Sulphate Tabs; Dispersible Co-trimoxazole Tabs d. Dispersible ACT’s and to generate marketing and distribution data in all areas of coverage. CHI has built its manufacturing capacity to be able to produce 1 billion tablets/year,


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thus ensuring local production of essential pharmaceutical products. CHI commits to collaborating closely with diverse stakeholders and NGOs to promote access for essential medicines. Design that Matters Design that Matters commits to delivering 3 products by 2020. Following the success of our Firefly newborn phototherapy device which has now treated over 20,000 newborns in 18 countries, DtM is launching a new suite of products. These products are adjacent innovations to Firefly, and will exponentially scale Firefly’s impact. Together they comprise a family of products targeting some of the biggest needs in global health needs for newborns. (1) Pelican is a diagnostic tool for newborns with pneumonia, the leading cause of death among children under five. (2) Otter is a warming bassinet that is compatible with Firefly and standard overhead phototherapy. Otter provides critical warming for hypothermic premature and low- birth-weight babies. (3) Echo is a remote monitoring and evaluation device for donated medical equipment in resource-poor settings. Echo is a response to the WHO’s statistic that up to 80% of donated medical devices in the developing world are never even turned on. With each individual DtM product, our goal is to identify opportunities where roughly $1M in research and development funding is sufficient to manufacture roughly 1,000 units of a product that will ultimately treat at least 500,000 people. Discovery Discovery commits to improving maternal and child health through business and corporate investment. Discovery will share intellectual property and provide financial and other resources to make physical activity, nutrition education, and the delivery of primary healthcare more accessible. With an increased focus on promoting maternal and child health, we also commit to continue to strengthen our health system. To improve road safety and to reduce road fatalities and crashes, we will share our intellectual property in telematics technology and provide financial and other support to organizations committed to the safety of children’s transport. Discovery’s commitment to the UN Secretary General’s Every Woman Every Child’s Global Strategy for Women’s, Children’s and Adolescents’ Health is as follows: (1) The Discovery Foundation’s advancement of innovative research in, among other areas, maternal and child related health; (2) The Discovery Fund’s support of effective maternal- and child-health organizations to contribute to improved survival and health of women and children; (3) The Discovery Fund’s partnership to create a safe environment for all children to travel to school; (4) The Vitality Schools Programme that aims to make children and school environments healthier; (5) The City of Johannesburg Health Lifestyle Programme which forms part of a broader initiative to create a healthier city. Discovery commits $4,600,000 from January 2014 to December 2018. GBC Health GBCHealth is committed to continuing the advancement of corporate engagement on maternal, newborn, child and adolescent health through its communications, advocacy and partnership platforms, building on the foundational work of the organization. The organization will spend $5 million USD over the next five years making focused efforts to improve RMNCAH. Moreover, to align more fully with the transition to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and with the global health community broadly, GBCHealth will promote new initiatives to enable the private sector to contribute their resources and expertise to filling gaps in health financing. The first such initiative, the Health Credit Exchange (HCX), will raise an additional $15 million USD by 2018 to promote high-performing and innovative health and wellness programs through performance-based financing. These commitments are pledged in the spirit of transformative


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progress for the health and wellbeing of all women and children through country leadership, cross-sector partnerships and to strengthen the resilience and effectiveness of health systems. GE & GE Healthcare GE Healthcare and the GE Foundation are committed to partnering in the creation of value solutions to deliver affordable and sustainable health outcomes, in support of the new 2030 Sustainable Development Goals. As part of its Every Woman Every Child commitment, GE will implement a number of programs and partnerships with the aim of improving maternal and infant mortality globally:GE commits to implementing an NICU modernization pilot program in low-resource rural settings in Ethiopia. The modernization pilot will aim to improve access to critical life saving devices and provide integrated health training and M&E to evidence a reduction in newborn mortality, increase in end-user job satisfaction and improvement in quality, access and affordability of newborn ICU care. GE Healthcare and Universitas Indonesia also commit to co-developing a telemedicine solution to reduce maternal and infant mortality in Indonesia leveraging GE Healthcare’s portable ultrasound device. The GE Foundation is launching a Safe Surgery 2020 initiative to accelerate access to safe surgery in low and middle-income countries by strengthening healthcare facilities and fostering learning and innovation. Some of the Safe Surgery initiative activities include implementation of a biomedical training program in Nigeria & Ethiopia, oxygen program in Kenya & Rwanda, safe anaesthesia and safe water programs in Kenya and Uganda respectively. Underpinning these initiatives is a commitment by GE Healthcare to make a $1billion global training investment to train 2 million healthcare professionals by 2020. HealthPhone The Mother and Child Health and Education Trust, through its HealthPhone initiative, commits to improving maternal and child health by supporting the availability and free access to essential health and nutrition information for direct use by adolescent girls and women and their families in India over the next three years and subsequently in 15 low-income countries. The HealthPhone initiative works on the premise that when we educate a mother, we educate a village. By providing a mother with direct access to knowledge we indirectly educate, motivate, empower and inspire the whole community around better health and nutrition practices; healthcare information they need to protect their own health and the health of those for whom they are responsible. IAP HealthPhone, launched in June 2015, is an initiative of HealthPhone conducted under the aegis of the Indian Academy of Pediatrics (IAP), in partnership with the Government of India and UNICEF. It is a public-private partnership, supported by Vodafone and others. It is the world’s largest video and mobile education program for mothers. By 2018, with a total investment of about USD $20 million from our partners, the programme aims to educate 23 million adolescent girls and women directly and through frontline health worker networks; 60 million children in India will benefit in the next decade. International Insurance Society The International Insurance Society (IIS) serves as the premier global insurance forum, focusing on complex industry issues, and drawing leaders from across all re/insurance sectors, regulatory authorities and insurance scholars. As the industry’s leading impartial and inclusive platform for idea exchange, IIS is uniquely positioned to stimulate sustainable economic and social development through active participation across its broad, inclusive and diverse membership, representing nearly 100 countries. The insurance industry can play a vital role in supporting the Sustainable Development Goals, serving as a catalyst to address a range of objectives including economic protection, disaster risk resiliency, and accessible health coverage, including financial risk protection. IIS has pledged a commitment to Every Woman


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Every Child’s Global Strategy for Women’s, Children’s and Adolescents’ Health, supporting the ultimate objective of ensuring accessible and affordable global healthcare. The Global Strategy has identified universal health coverage as being one of the essential means by which healthcare needs can be met, with lack of coverage forcing millions into poverty, and accessible coverage going beyond circumventing poverty to stimulate economic performance in society. Our commitment will center on engaging our members active in the health sector, and leveraging our annual Global Insurance Forum in 2016 as well as the IIS Research Network, to explore how the insurance industry can collaborate with the global community in support of the Global Strategy’s target of achieving universal health coverage. Maternity Foundation Maternity Foundation commits to train and instruct birth attendants on how to manage normal and complicated deliveries through its “Safe Delivery App” innovation. The app instructs birth attendants on how to manage normal and complicated deliveries through simple, animated clinical instruction films. The films address all seven signal functions of Basic Emergency Obstetric and Neonatal Care (BEmONC) and are based on global clinical guidelines. The app includes push messages and knowledge tests to activate the health workers’ learning process on an ongoing basis and comes in English as well as local languages. Based on simple visuals, it overcomes the barrier of low literacy among healthcare workers in underserved areas. Maternity Foundation plans to provide $1.2 million to support partnerships in 10-12 countries in Africa and Asia between 2015-2017 with a view to rolling out the app. The objective is to reach a minimum of 10,000 health workers by the end of 2017 with high quality training, thus ensuring that an estimated 1 million women will have the possibility to give birth with a better skilled birth attendance and experience a safe birth. Medical Technology Transfer and Services (MTTS), Thrive Networks Medical Technology Transfer and Services (MTTS) commits to specifically address one of the most significant gaps in the Millennium Development Goals: neonatal mortality. Despite progress in reducing under-five child mortality, addressing newborn deaths has lagged. As such, Thrive Networks, in partnership with social enterprise MTTS based in Vietnam, commits to scaling up intensive newborn care units at 95 national and sub-national hospitals in East Africa (Kenya, Somaliland, Tanzania, and Uganda) over the next five years (2015-2019). MTTS manufactures low-cost neonatal medical devices for low-resource settings. Thrive Networks will support the capacity development of health providers in neonatal care and device usage, and MTTS will train health facility technicians in device maintenance. MTTS will work closely with the Ministry of Health in each country to support integration into the health system, and collaborate with each facility to monitor equipment usage from one to three years. MTTS will provide remote and on-site technical assistance as well as establish links with local distributors, ensuring long-term sales and technical assistance and boosting sustainability of the system. Thrive Networks has tested and improved this model over the past 12 years, successfully reaching scale across five countries in Southeast Asia. Medtronic In September 2014, the Medtronic Foundation committed $6M over 5 years to support global efforts to prevent and control Rheumatic Fever (RF) and eliminate Rheumatic Heart Disease (RHD). A year later, with the help of key partners, we have successfully created RHD Action – a global movement to end RHD. The driving force behind this movement is the RHD Action Alliance (a partnership between Medtronic Philanthropy, World Heart Federation and RhEACH), which is committed to working at local, national, and global levels to reduce and eventually eliminate the burden of RHD. Through funding from Medtronic, RHD Action has also engaged


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an inaugural cohort of countries – the RHD Action Countries – where government and partner institutions are actively engaged in achieving specific RHD targets within their geographies, while also strengthening their health systems. RHD Action invites other countries to join this movement in the coming years. In September 2015, under the aegis of Medtronic’s commitment to the EWEC movement, against the backdrop of the UN Sustainable Development Goals conversation, and focus on premature mortality among women and children, the founding partners of RHD Action Alliance will launch RHD Action – a global movement that for the first time in global health history will place RHD on the global health agenda. Mercado Global Mercado Global commits to supporting the efforts of Every Woman Every Child by expanding its impact throughout remote rural indigenous communities in the Guatemalan highlands and facilitating access to health and wellness education to more women and children. Addressing low levels of education, high levels of chronic childhood malnutrition, and a widespread lack of access to basic services, Mercado Global has implemented the Community-Based Education Program to address poverty by empowering women with educational opportunities and tools to tackle the challenges they face in their communities. Mercado Global commits to supporting Every Woman Every Child and the Sustainable Development Goals by increasing the number of women and children Mercado Global engages with from 2016-2019 by expanding its Community-Based Education Program to include 10 additional cooperatives for a total investment of $250,000. Currently this program contains a community health component that offers training sessions on preventive measures such as sanitation, nutrition, and reproductive health. The goal is not to simply provide direct health services to artisans, but to administer an educational foundation that artisans can retain and re-teach within their communities. In the next year, this program will also expand to address further community needs and provide women’s rights education and women’s health services to empower women with confidence and knowledge in women’s health and financial literacy. Nestlé Nestlé launched its Global Maternity Protection Policy for its employees worldwide in June 2015. The policy, based on the ILO Maternity Protection Convention, gives employees a minimum of 14 weeks paid maternity leave and the right to extend their maternity leave up to six months; employment protection and non-discrimination; health protection in the workplace for all pregnant or nursing women; flexible working arrangements; and a conducive work environment to breastfeed, including guaranteed access to breastfeeding rooms, and daily breaks or reduction of work hours to breastfeed. By 2018, Nestlé will implement these five (5) minimum standards in all its markets. Additionally, Nestlé is committed to providing access to clean water and sanitation through its partnership with the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies. Nestlé has partnered with the IFRC Societies since 2002 in an evolving relationship that today provides access to clean water and sanitation almost 200,000 people in Ivorian cocoa farming communities. The Partnership has been renewed in 2014 for 5 million Swiss Francs over five years which will enable further programming in Cote d’Ivoire and an extension to Ghana. Novo Nordisk Novo Nordisk builds on its previous commitment to Every Woman Every Child that targets non-communicable diseases (NCDs) including diabetes as a leading cause of death and disability in the world today. Novo Nordisk believes in taking a life-course approach to preventing NCDs worldwide and has committed, in 2014, to implementing a USD $400,000 project focusing on gestational diabetes mellitus in a state in India. The project will focus on capacity building,


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screening of pregnant women and awareness-raising. The two-year project will take place in coordination with Novo Nordisk India and in close collaboration with local state health authorities. The project will directly support the order issued by the Government of India in 2007 to make universal screening for glucose intolerance during pregnancy mandatory. In 2015 Novo Nordisk is committing an additional USD $330,000 to create awareness of the link between gestational diabetes and maternal and newborn health through engaging in advocacy work through global partners such as the International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics (FIGO), Women Deliver and Management Sciences for Health. Nutriset Nutriset commits to preventing malnutrition for adolescents, pregnant and lactating women and children through 3 objectives: (1) Continuing partnerships in research that proves the importance of an adequate supplementary food to prevent stunting for adolescents, pregnant and lactating women and children from 6 months to 2 years old. Through strong external network, we will build the evidence set to demonstrate the impact of Small Quantity - Lipid Based Nutrient Supplements (SQLNS) in different settings, optimize and adjust our products accordingly and contribute to raising international awareness about investing in nutrition. 2) Making accessible our prevention product’s range designed to fill micronutrients gaps, particularly those important for improving birth outcomes and promoting proper growth and immunity in children. Access will be enhanced by delivery both through public health and market-based channels to enlarge coverage of targeted populations. (3) Building space for multi-sectoral interventions to happen by integrating our products within a package of activities (WASH, Education, Behavioral Change Communication) and highlight relevance (impact) of such integrated approaches on health status to allow replication and scale-up. This financial commitment of $1.2 million will support research partnerships, the distribution of nutritional products, and the expansion of multi-sectoral interventions from September 2015 until December 2016. Olpharm Every year, approximately 100,000 children in Nigeria die needlessly from diarrhea, the 2nd leading cause of child deaths globally, which can be easily prevented with a simple treatment: zinc and oral rehydration salts (ORS). Olpharm Nigeria Ltd. is an importer and marketer of quality pharmaceuticals in Nigeria. Olpharm Nigeria Ltd. is committing, through its partnership with WHO-GMP external manufacturer, Medicamen Pharma, India, with NAFDAC registered products, to import OLPHARM BABY ZINC and OLPHARM ORS-LO individual packs and DIARRHOEA KIT CO-PACKED products in Nigeria for a total annual investment of $7,320,000. To increase the volume of ZINC and ORS in the Nigeria market, Olpharm Nigeria Ltd. also commits to importing the following products to Nigeria on a monthly basis, in order to supply Nigeria’s private sector market from 2016-2018: ZINC - 100,000; ORS-LO - 600,000; CO-PACK - 100,000 KITS. This historic commitment is part of the Coalition for Childhood Essential Medicines in Nigeria launched in October 2012, which has potential to save the lives of over 200,000 children in Nigeria by 2015. The coalition supports the Government of Nigeria’s Saving One Million Lives Initiative and the Every Woman Every Child movement. Piramal Foundation Piramal Foundation makes a $4.5 million commitment comprising the following key activities: (1) Piramal Swasthya commits to positively influence the causes of morbidity and mortality among pregnant women and promote sexual health and hygiene among adolescent girls in the tribal and hard to reach communities of Aaraku mandal in Andhra Pradesh. We also commit to build capacity and upgrade skills of field health human workers, reaching 4000 expectant mothers


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between 2015-2020 and building a model for tribal health solutions that can be replicated to other parts of the country. (2) Piramal’s Consumer Products Division commits to distributing pregnancy testing products to help women plan their pregnancies better and to supporting education and awareness campaigns that help tackle women’s lack of awareness and correct information about their own bodies & reproductive systems. Piramal’s information campaigns, directed via various mediums including digital and Below the Line education programs, will reach approximately 4 million women over the following 3 years in the age group of 20-40 in the states of Maharashtra and Andhra Pradesh. (3) Piramal Nutrition Solutions commits to distributing Micronutrient Powders (MNPs) that aid in addressing the problems of anaemia, Vitamin A deficiency and stunting by improving the quality of young children’s diets. Piramal commits to collaborating closely with UNICEF & other NGOs to make available affordable MNP powder to help meet the needs of children globally. Reckit Benckiser (RB) RB commits to reduce the prevalence of diarrhoea amongst children under five by at least 50%, the incidence of acute diarrhoea by at least 50% and to achieve an estimated 80% reduction in children under-five with diarrhoea dying from the illness in clinics by 2018. To achieve this, RB, in partnership with Save the Children, commits to deliver an integrated package of essential interventions and services by following the seven-point plan developed by WHO and UNICEF to combat diarrhoea. This will include community-wide sanitation promotion and the capacity building of local health workers to promote early breastfeeding, vitamin A supplementation, handwashing and other good hygiene practices. RB’s partnership approach entails four key targets: to improve the quality of diarrhoea control services in the community and at health facilities using proven interventions and working in multi-level partnership; community mobilization and empowerment to increase the demand for quality health and community-led hygiene and sanitation activities; leveraging the company’s innovation and research capabilities to co-develop new affordable sanitation products and generate evidence for effective behaviour change communication; and provision of a body of evidence to advocate to governments to take on this integrated approach at scale. (RED) (RED) commits to generating funding and awareness for the fight against AIDS, with a focus on eliminating mother to child transmission of the HIV. (RED) partners with iconic brands and organizations to develop (RED)-branded products, services and experiences that generate contributions to the Global Fund to invest in HIV/AIDS programs in Africa, with a focus on countries with high prevalence of mother-to-child transmission of HIV. (RED) and its partners provide consumers and activists a wide range of activities and behaviors that trigger corporate giving to the Global Fund. All money generated by (RED) goes directly to Global Fund HIV/AIDS grants in eight African countries: Ghana, Kenya, Lesotho, Rwanda, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania and Zambia; no overhead is taken. These grants fund vital public health services, including HIV/AIDS prevention, treatment and care programs. (RED) has committed to contributing $85M to the Global Fund for the period 2014 – 2016. Safaricom Safaricom is committed to creating an enabling environment for every woman and every child by working with partner organizations and leveraging technology to extend the reach of interventions. We intend to do this by developing scalable products and services that support maternal, newborn, child and adolescent health. These include mLearning initiatives that aim to support the training and up-skilling of community health workers who form the first line of support for families across the country, as well as leveraging our M-PESA mobile money and


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other platforms to encourage critical data collection. This data is useful to inform national policy and decision support. We shall also work to advocate, harness and mobilize the necessary resources to fight maternal, newborn and child death and morbidity in Kenya, in line with the UNFPA led Kenya Private Sector Advisory Panel and Joint Commitment. We are also committing US$ 9.9 million to various initiatives over the next three years, including the Samburu Maternal and Child Health Project, the Health Enablement and Learning Platform, and CarePay a health payments and information exchange. The three projects will each seek to address shortfalls in maternal and early childhood across Kenya. Teck Teck commits to the UN Secretary General’s Every Woman Every Child movement by working to implement long-term, sustainable solutions to zinc deficiency and reduce deaths of children under five. As one of the world’s largest producers of zinc, Teck is helping solve the global health challenge of zinc deficiency by partnering with international organizations to scale up therapeutic zinc, zinc supplementation, food fortification, crop nutrition, awareness and advocacy. New commitments include extending the Zinc Alliance for Child Health (ZACH), a $25 million partnership to increase access to zinc and oral rehydration salts (ORS) as a life-saving treatment for childhood diarrhea, until 2020 with an additional $5 million commitment from ZACH partners. Teck has also extended until 2017 its crop nutrition program with the Ministry of Agriculture in China and the International Zinc Association to demonstrate the benefits of zinc fertilizer to improve nutritional quality of crops. Finally, Teck, UNICEF and the Government of Canada have partnered to develop The 25th Team, a network of Canadian women who will leave a $6+ million legacy for maternal and child health and help improve the lives of 3.8 million women and children by 2019. TOMS TOMS is thrilled to continue to support the Every Woman Every Child initiative. TOMS is in business to improve lives, and with the One for One® model, it has given over 45 million pairs of new shoes to children, helped restore sight to more than 325,000 individuals, and helped provide more than 175,000 weeks of safe water to people in need. TOMS is committed to producing more than 33 percent of TOMS Giving Shoes in countries where it gives, and by year end, TOMS will have produced more than 13 million shoes locally, creating over 1,200 jobs — 40 percent of which are performed by women — in six different countries. Additionally, in February 2015, with the creation and launch of the TOMS Bag collection, TOMS is supporting efforts to advance maternal and child health. Working with BRAC, UNFPA and ayzh, TOMS will provide a safe birth for a mother and baby in need with every bag purchased. Through purchases of the TOMS Bag Collection, TOMS will work with these organizations in four geographically diverse countries to improve training for skilled birth attendants and provide clean delivery kits in countries where there are high rates of maternal and neonatal mortality. TOMS remains committed to Every Woman Every Child and to creating better opportunities for women, children, and adolescents around the world. UBS Optimist The UBS Optimus Foundation is the philanthropic offering for clients of UBS, a global financial services company providing investment banking, asset management and wealth management services for private corporate and institutional clients. The UBS Optimus Foundation is supporting the updated Global Strategy through the identification and validation of high-impact, cross-sectoral projects that help ensure children are safe, healthy, educated and ready for their future. As part of this commitment, the UBS Optimus Foundation will provide support to global partnerships of the EWEC Innovation Marketplace, Saving Brains and the Power of Nutrition as


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well as provide country-specific support to improve the access to and quality of care for women and children. UBS Optimus will do this through investments that support locally-available and cost-effective health care solutions, health education that can lead to increased health literacy and healthy behavior, and the training and motivating of community health care workers. The focus on preventable & treatable diseases and conditions for children, which represent high burdens yet are insufficiently funded. The UBS Optimus Foundation is making a 20-million CHF commitment from 2015 to 2020. Unilever As part of the Unilever Sustainable Living Plan, we are working towards the achievement of the following targets that will contribute towards the Sustainable Development Goals and the ambition outlined by the Global Strategy: (1) By 2020, our Lifebuoy soap brand aims to improve the handwashing behaviour of 1 billion people in sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia and Latin America, including school children and mothers with newborns. Handwashing with soap reduces diarrhoeal disease and pneumonia – the world’s two leading causes of deaths in children under-five; (2) We are also working to reduce diarrhoeal disease by improving access to clean drinking water and basic sanitation. By 2020, we aim to provide 150 billion litres of safe drinking water through our Pureit filtration devices – while our Domestos brand will help contribute to Unilever’s target to help 25 million people gain access to a toilet by promoting the benefits of clean toilets and making them more accessible; (3) Unilever believes that by working with partners such as Oxfam, Save the Children, the World Food Programme, Population Services International and UNICEF we can together achieve our goals. We will reach millions of children in the poorest communities in sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia and Latin America with life-saving nutrition, sanitation and health interventions. Viiv In the period 2015-2020, ViiV Healthcare’s Positive Action for Children Fund has committed USD $38,800,000 to continue efforts to end mother to child transmission of HIV. In addition, ViiV has launched Positive Action for Adolescents and Positive Action for Girls and Women in 2015, adding a further USD $31,000,000 to the PACF investments in women and children for a total of nearly USD $70,000,000 up to 2020. Positive Action for Adolescents will support and evaluate the impact of new behavioural and service delivery interventions that may address key gaps in adolescent HIV prevention, testing and care, and enable improved service provision and treatment outcomes for adolescents through to adulthood. Positive Action for Girls and Women aims to enhance community responses to address the cultural norms and practices that lead to HIV vulnerability, through early marriage, forced marriage, transactional sex, intergenerational relationships, situations and circumstances of physical vulnerability and other similar vulnerabilities, in order to reduce and ultimately end the HIV pandemic in girls and women. WaterHealth WaterHealth is the leader in providing scalable, safe and affordable clean water solutions to underserved and impoverished communities through innovative business models. On a yearly basis, its facilities purify almost 1 Billion liters of water, which is received by over 5 million people – a number that is growing as its business models expand along with the geographic areas in which we operate. WaterHealth currently has operations in India, Ghana, Nigeria and Liberia. WaterHealth’s existence and success thus far is demonstrative of the true potential of utilizing private sector strengths for public health successes. WaterHealth will continue its commitment to Every Woman Every Child and support water provision and the Sustainable Development Goals through an approximate investment of $10-15MM from 2015-2020 by: (1)


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Scaling up provision of safe water in Ghana, Nigeria, Liberia and India; (2) Reaching a total of 10 Million people and dispensing more than 5 Billion liters of water per year by 2020. World Health Partners Over the next five years, World Health Partners (WHP) will increase access to and utilization of high quality maternal, newborn, and child health services in rural Kenya. WHP aims to reach over eight million Kenyan women, youth, and children close to their homes, strengthen health system management, and embed an entrepreneurial spirit into service delivery by increasing its Sky Network service providers. WHP will achieve this by identifying and harnessing all existing resources and fashioning them, with the extensive use of frugal technologies such as mobile phones and tablets, into a service delivery channel within walkable distance to the communities. The composite strategy will engage with the public sector to streamline its work using modern management tools, activate 300 government-trained community health volunteers to counsel and generate demand on a sustainable basis, and empower a network of an additional 100 WHP predominately female health entrepreneurs to provide curative care in consultation with remote doctors. The monetary value of this commitment – excluding in-kind contributions – is USD $7 million, and will be implemented in conjunction with county-level Ministries of Health and integrated within the Kenya’s primary health care services, thereby ensuring joint ownership and, ultimately, funding. ZMQ As a social enterprise working in the area of Maternal & Child Health using innovative mobile technologies, ZMQ makes a $10.5million commitment to Every Woman Every Child to improve critical maternal & child health indicators in Low Income Countries over the next 5 years. The distinguishing innovation of MIRA Channel is its holistic one-stop channel, with multiple sub-channels addressing areas such as Pre-natal care, Child immunization, Newborn care, Family planning and Adolescent health issues. ZMQ aims to expand its successful MIRA Channel program to scale in 10 countries in Africa and Asia directly reaching over 7 million beneficiaries: women, children and adolescent girls. Further, we pledge to strengthen the training of 250,000 health professionals by upgrading their knowledge and skills in multiple areas of Reproductive Health, Maternal, Child, New born and Adolescent Girl Health. We also pledge to reach an additional 10 million adolescent girls and boys using behavior change tools - social mobile games and decision-tree stories. Specific targets include: (1) Scaling MIRA Channel to the state of Rajasthan in India reaching by June 2016; (2) Scaling the MIRA Channel to interiors of Uganda and Afghanistan by end of 2016; (3) Scaling MIRA Channel to Ethiopia, Tanzania and Kenya by end of 2017; (4) Scaling to Francophone nations – Mali, Senegal and Cameroon by end of 2018; (5) Scaling to directly reach 7,000,000 beneficiaries over the next 5 years.

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