‘Every Newborn’ Country Consultations

Country Consultation ObjectivesMain objective:

• To provide an opportunity to engage key stakeholders in participatory discussions around the global action plan, and

• stimulate national dialogue to promote coordinated efforts among key country stakeholders to identify what needs to happen to scale-up evidenced based interventions to address preventable newborn deaths

Country Consultation Objectives

Specific objectives:1. To provide a forum for countries to identify their

bottlenecks, challenges and solutions and actions to accelerate the scale up of newborn programmes in national plans

2. To review and provide input to the global Every Newborn action plan draft document

3. To contribute to the advocacy movement around global, regional and national newborn action and ensure country-level alignment with other key initiatives and political processes

Country Consultation OutputsThe Every Newborn consultation should be a participatory and dynamic process and lead to clear outputs including:

1. A report on identified country bottlenecks to scale-up of quality newborn care as well as evidence-based solutions and actions to address the challenges

2. A summary of country inputs and recommendations to strengthen the Every Newborn action plan draft document

3. The results of the consultation should also be widely shared with broad range of stakeholders to harness their support for strengthening equitable MNH policies and programmes

Country Consultation Outputs

All reports including the bottleneck analysis, meeting report and media outreach reports

should be sent to

Aline Simen-Kapeu askapeu@unicef.org and

Mary Kinney at mkinney@savechildren.org

Guiding Principles of a ConsultationAn Every Newborn consultation should follow the following guiding principles:

1. Government – led process: Governments should lead the consultation process in close collaboration with partners

2. Align with country/regional processes

3. Consider human rights-based approach and equity

4. Consider the full continuum of care

5. Involve a diverse range of stakeholders and ensure multi-sectoral participation

Country Consultation Participants

• The Every Newborn consultation is built on the principle that engaging all possible partners in the discussion builds positive energy and new or renewed commitments to action

• The Ministry of Health (MOH) should lead the Every Newborn consultation

• It is also important to engage other ministries such as Planning, Development, Education, Social Affairs, and Finance

• Include district level officials responsible for newborn health

Country Consultation Participants

• Stakeholders to be invited should include:

Members of Parliament, UN agencies, local and international nongovernmental organizations, civil society and grassroots organizations, professional associations and practitioners – midwives, pediatricians, obstetricians, academics and researchers, funders, private sector, media …

• Involving a diverse range of constituents and decision makers is always a challenge, however efforts should be made to identify major and potential stakeholders to involve them in the dialogue and to be as inclusive as possible

‘Every Newborn’ Consultation Agenda

• The MNH/Newborn technical working group should lead the organization of the meeting

• A GENAP country consultation should be scheduled over two to three two days depending on the opportunity and availability of stakeholders

• The GENAP consultation should be linked as much as possible to a national technical meeting that is being planned by the government such as APR, CoLSC

‘Every Newborn’ Consultation Agenda

• If there is a time constraint, the consultation could be shortened to half-day consultation

• The BNA Tool should be completed in advance by the existing MNCH technical working group using available reports/documents

• If the bottleneck analysis is done separately try to ensure that a diverse group of stakeholders including many of the key stakeholders are involved

• The consultation will then focus on validating the BNA analysis and reviewing the ‘Every Newborn’ draft document

Time Sessions Focal point

Registration TBDIntroduction

Welcome, opening remarks, and introduction of participants Presentation of the objectives of the meeting and review of the agenda

ONE DAY OR MORNING SESSIONS

OVERVIEW OF GLOBAL INITIATIVESSession 1: Global updates Global initiatives: how does all fit together? Interconnection between maternal and newborn health interventions across the continuum of care Multi-sectoral llinkages

TBD

COUNTRY BOTTLENECKS ANALYSIS - IDENTIFICATION OF SOLUTIONS AND ACTIONSSession 2: Country updates

Situational analysis, existing RMNCH initiatives Overview of bottlenecks and barriers to progress- feedback on the survey

TBD

Session 3: Group work Review bottlenecks and identify solutions to address the challenges Decide clear action plans (short and medium term) with responsibilities Feedback from group work and discussions

TBD

GLOBAL EVERY NEWBORN ACTION PLAN

ONE DAY OR AFTERNOON SESSIONS

Session 4: Overview of the Global Every Newborn Action Plan

Background, rationale, contents, and development process

TBD

Session 5: Group work to review the Every Newborn draft document Group review and provide inputs on specific sections of the GENAP Feedback from group work and discussions

TBD

CLOSING

Outline of an Every Newborn Country Consultation

Outline of a Country Consultation Agenda

•Overview of Global InitiativesUpdate on global initiatives, how it all fits together, how the ‘Every Newborn’ fits with other initiative

•Country Bottlenecks Analysis - Identification of Solutions and ActionsCountry situation analysis, overview of BNA tool, group work to review bottlenecks or presentation, discussion and of key bottlenecks and solutions

•Global ‘Every Newborn’ Action PlanReview of the draft ‘Every Newborn’ document, consolidation of feedback

Support for Country Consultations

• The Every Newborn Toolkit is available to support country consultations

• The ‘Every Newborn’ Core Team and Advisory Groups members are available for technical support

• Technical support also available from UNICEF, WHO and Save the Children global, regional and country support teams

• For more information and technical support to organize and facilitate a consultation contact askapeu@unicef.org, Mary Kinney at mkinney@savechildren.org, and UNICEF/WHO MNH Regional Advisers

• Also visit ww.globalnewbornaction.org

‘Every Newborn’ Consultation Agenda

• There is no ‘one size fits all’ country consultation format

• Consultations should be tailored to fit the opportunities as they arise and the time available

• Additional opportunities to consult/inform stakeholders on the ‘Every Newborn’ document should be sought through professional association meetings, organizational retreats, funders meetings etc