Knowledge synthesis

In 2022, PMNCH highlighted SRHR evidence and messages in influential events and campaigns, including at Lives in the Balance, and during sessions at the High-Level Political Forum and World Health Summit. PMNCH also supported the development of knowledge translation resources, including a toolkit on SRHR in pandemic preparedness and response, and a video promoting COVID-19 vaccination during pregnancy. The video was co-developed by leading cross-constituency organisations and launched at the International Conference on Family Planning (ICFP) accompanied by a toolkit of key resources for continued advocacy and action. PMNCH also harnessed the power of high-level champions for political advocacy on key emerging SRHR issues. Products included the Roe vs. Wade op-ed by Helen Clark; and an op-ed on sexual and gender-based violence co-signed by Helen Clark, Michelle Bachelet, and H.E. José Manuel Albares. 

PMNCH began convening partners for the development of a "decade edition" of the updated Born Too Soon report on pre-term birth: a landmark publication first launched in 2012. PMNCH partners from all constituencies were involved in this effort, aligning and supporting the efforts of the Every Newborn Action Plan and strategies for ending preventable maternal mortality. The report was launched at the International Maternal and Newborn Conference in Cape Town in May 2023.

As part of its 1.8 Billion Young People for Change Campaign, PMNCH is mobilizing for greater commitment and accountability for adolescent well-being (AWB) by advancing the dissemination of evidence and policy frameworks to guide programming and investment. In 2022, PMNCH led on the development of a global summary report based on the findings of a series of multi-stakeholder consultations on programming to promote AWB, and successfully launched the first bundle of papers for The BMJ's adolescent well-being collection, with 16 papers and commentaries coordinated by PMNCH. PMNCH also convened partners to advance measuring and monitoring approaches for AWB. In line with the pledge to improve adolescent and youth engagement, PMNCH supported the development of a practical guidance resource for operationalizing meaningful adolescent and youth engagement (MAYE). The 2022 knowledge products are essential resources for partners to advance their advocacy efforts for mobilizing AWB commitments, and for developing and implementing adolescent-responsive multi-sectoral action at the county level.

PMNCH established a partnership with Campbell Collaboration and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine to conduct a scoping review of WCAH economic evaluations at global, regional and country levels. This is the first comprehensive mapping of economic evaluations of interventions for WCAH in LMICs. The aim of this work is to identify and promote robust evidence to mobilize greater and better financing for WCAH and well-being. The review will serve as a basis for data visualization tools, a digital compendium of economic and financial analyses, and knowledge translation material to be adapted at country level to inform advocacy action by partners. Evidence and gaps will also be used to inform global advocacy processes for more and smarter investments for WCAH. 

Decades of progress in WCAH are under threat of reversal due to the triple combination of COVID-19, rising number of conflicts and climate change. PMNCH actively used its knowledge synthesis function in 2022 to promote multi-sectoral collaboration and advocacy to address these "3Cs". PMNCH launched a toolkit on WCAH and preparedness and response, tailored to humanitarian and fragile settings. For COP27 in November 2022, PMNCH developed a package of resources on the impact of climate change on WCAH to guide youth-led advocacy, accompanied by key asks to address WCAH in climate responses.

PMNCH coordinated a consolidated progress report of the UN Secretary-General’s Global Strategy. Protect the Promise is a joint report by WHO, UNICEF, UNFPA, PMNCH and Countdown to 2030, supported by the UN Secretary-General and UN Secretary-General’s Global Advocate for Every Woman Every Child. The report was launched during a panel session moderated by PMNCH Chair Helen Clark during the World Health Summit in Berlin in October 2022. “At the core of our unkept promise is the failure to address the gaping inequities at the root of global crises, from the COVID-19 pandemic to conflicts and the climate emergency. The report describes the impacts of these crises on women, children and adolescents, from maternal mortality to education losses to severe malnutrition,” wrote Antonio Guterres, United Nations Secretary-General, in the foreword to the report.

In addition, short accountability blogs were developed by PMNCH and launched in coordination with key political advocacy moments, such as the WHA, the UN High-Level Political Forum, and the UNGA. These included commentaries on commitments in humanitarian and fragile settings; women’s leadership to deliver on the SDGs; and a progress report led by EWEC-LAC on adolescent health in the LAC region.