Publications: Adolescent well-being

Making progress for the health and human rights of women, children, and adolescents is possible, but hard-won gains are under threat. Conflict, the climate...

The development of the advocacy action plan was coordinated by Amref Malawi, under the stewardship of the Ministry of Health’s Reproductive Health...

The Partnership for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health (PMNCH) serves as a cornerstone in global health advocacy, with a focus on advancing the health...

The world is now on track for a 2.6-3.1°C warming by the end of this century, and the window is closing to reach the Paris Agreement’s target...

Prompted by the 20th anniversary of the 1993 World Development Report, a Lancet Commission revisited the case for investment in health and developed...

Interventions that improve women’s, children’s and adolescents’ health (WCAH) and well-being and address inequalities have a ripple...

This Financial Report provides information on the budget and finances in 2023 for the Partnership for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health (PMNCH). Section...

This call to action, launched at the Youth Power Summit (YPS) in New York builds on a decade of foundational efforts, including the "Make Adolescent Well-being...

The 77th World Health Assembly saw the passing of the historic resolution, “Accelerate progress towards reducing maternal, newborn, and child mortality...

Every adolescent embarks on their journey through life with a unique blend of enthusiasm, curiosity, uncertainty, and confidence. Despite their individual...

Therapeutic vaccines for human papillomavirus (HPV) are currently in development and could be an important new tool in the fight against cervical cancer....

Millions of women, children and adolescents continue to die from preventable, treatable causes, while many more are threatened by the ongoing polycrisis...

The health of women, children and adolescents (WCAH) was high on the agenda of the 77th World Health Assembly in Geneva (WHA77), Switzerland, during 27...

Download on IRISAs we reach the halfway mark of the SDGs, the global landscape has been marred by unprecedented challenges. Among the most affected demographics...

Worldwide, the climate is changing and affecting the health and well-being of children in many ways. In this review, we provided an overview of how climate...

Climate change is transforming all aspects of life on earth, including human life. This issue of the journal includes three articles summarising the available...

The purpose of this document is to request Member States to support the inclusion of language in the Summit of the Future’s outcome documents, emphasizing...

The 77th World Health Assembly (#WHA77) will take place from the 27 May to 1 June 2024 in Geneva, Switzerland. As the health community meets at WHA77,...

OVID-19 demonstrated the devasta5ng impacts health crises can have on our world. The Summit of the Future must priori5ze health and well-being for all,...

PMNCH is the world’s largest alliance for the health, well-being, and rights of women, children, and adolescents, leaving no one behind. It mobilizes,...

This document sets out the PMNCH 2024-25 Workplan and Budget. The workplan was originally developed and approved by the PMNCH Executive Committee in March...

In pursuit of accelerating progress towards reducing maternal, newborn, and child mortality, urgent and sustainable investment in primary health services...

By Blanca Anton, Soledad Cuevas, Mark Hanson, Zulfiqar Ahmed Bhutta, Etienne V Langlois, Domenico Gerardo Iaia, Guilia Gasparri, Jospehine BorghiWomen,...

To survive and thrive, children and adolescents need good health, adequate nutrition, security, safety and a supportive clean environment, opportunities...

By Josephine Borghi, Soledad Cuevas Garcia-Dorado, Blanca Anton, Domenico Gerardo, Giulia Gasparri, Mark Hanson, Agnès Soucat, Flavia Bustreo...

This document provides guidance on how the private sector can actively contribute to and align with the Agenda. It translates each of the seven asks into...

Early Adolescent Skills for Emotions (EASE) is an evidence-based group psychological intervention to help 10–15-year-olds affected by internalizing...

Climate change is one of the biggest global health threats and intergenerational injustices of the 21st century, affecting every country across the globe...

The World Health Organization’s (WHO) Eastern Mediterranean Region (EMR) is a diverse region comprising 21-member states and occupied Palestinian...

Over 1.8 billion adolescents and youth (10-24 years old) live in the world today – more than ever before. Their experiences, voices and needs are...

Adolescents are not simply old children or young adults. This deceptively simple observation lies at the heart of Global Accelerated Action for the Health...

At the 78th United Nations General Assembly, world leaders, including young leaders, will discuss the need to accelerate action on the 2030 Agenda for...

The health and well-being needs of young people are inextricably linked to their ability to participate in and attain education. Early and unintended pregnancy...

What Young People Want is the largest-ever survey of youth opinion to guide national policy, investment and action, targeting responses from 1 million...

Following the invitation from the Speaker of the Zambia Parliament, Honorable Madam Nelly Mutti to the WHO-based Partnership for Maternal Newborn, Child...

2022 was about resilience and the determination of the PMNCH community in the face of unprecedented challenges. The COVID-19 pandemic, conflicts, and climate...

Decades of progress in improving women’s, children’s and adolescents’ health (WCAH) are now under threat of reversal due to the triple...

PMNCH’s 2021 to 2025 Strategy guides the partnership’s work towards improving the health and wellbeing of women, children and adolescents (WCA)....

The Council was established in late 2020 by Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus (Director-General, WHO) to provide new economic thinking – reassessing...

Robust health systems that provide essential health services for women, children, and adolescents can only function with adequate, skilled health workers....

The 76th World Health Assembly (#WHA76) opens on Sunday, May 21, 2023. This annual gathering brings together government delegations and other key development...

In 2018, the World Health Organization called for the elimination of cervical cancer, one of the most common cancers among women worldwide. In 2020, the...

In May 2016, the Sixty-ninth World Health Assembly adopted resolution WHA69.2 on committing to implementation of the Global Strategy for Women’s,...

In the latest policy brief – on the value of health for all – the WHO Council on the Economics of Health for All proposes three key objectives...

In view of the long-standing recognition that gross domestic product (GDP) does not capture the unremunerated work largely conducted by women upon which...

Through the Millennium Development Goal era and into the early years of the Sustainable Development Goal era, the world saw significant progress in reducing...

IYAFP and the 120 Under 40: The New Generation of Family Planning Leaders program, with the support of the Bill and Melinda Gates Institute...

As with any guidance, this document is not a silver bullet, but rather is meant to guide different stakeholders towards the highest standards of meaningful...

By Alice McGushin, Giulia Gasparri, Viola Graef, Christophe Ngendahayo, Shashank Timilsina, Flavia Bustreo,  Anthony CostelloThe world is already...

The year 2015 saw the launch of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, followed shortly thereafter by the 2016–2030 Global Strategy for Women’s,...

Adolescents in Latin America and the Caribbean face multiple dimensions of vulnerability that threaten long-lasting consequences for themselves and...

By ALMAThe ALMA Scorecard for Accountability and Action tracks priority malaria, RMNCAH, and NTD indicators. The tool was developed for senior leaders...

A key lesson of the COVID pandemic is that future preparedness critically depends on strengthening public sector capacity and budgets. International...

PMNCH is the world’s largest alliance for women’s, children’s and adolescents’ health and well-being.Our vision is a world in which...

This document outlines:actions taken till date by PMNCH to implement the Global Consensus Statement on Meaningful Adolescent and Youth Engagement (MAYE),...

By IFPRITwo years after the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, the health, economic, and social disruptions caused by this global crisis continue to evolve....

Many of the 1.2 billion adolescents (aged 10–19 years) around the world experience multiple challenges to their well-being. These include inadequate...

This document sets out the PMNCH’s two-year Workplan and Budget, whichdescribes the work PMNCH plans to deliver in 2022-23 calendar years....

As part of the accountability system for the Global Consensus Statement on Meaningful Adolescent and Youth Engagement (MAYE), a survey of all 249 signatories...

The Knowledge Summary “Young people’s fight against climate change: actions we can take for health and well-being” is written by adolescents,...

The new WHO Council on the Economics of Health for All recognizes that health and economies are deeply intertwined. Indeed, economic development could...

By ENCU, WASH cluster Ethiopia, Health Cluster EthiopiaThis document advocates for a joint cluster response to address the nutrition crisis that Ethiopia...

By IOMThis situation report addresses the COVID-19 WASH response of IOM in South Sudan. The WASH response aimed to ensure that refugees in camps receive...

By Global Health VisionsThis brief provides a succinct overview of what we know about the impact of social accountability (SA) initiatives and what works...

The Motion Tracker is a civil society-led approach for strengthening accountability and driving action to achieve commitments. It is a customized, dynamic...

By Mercy CorpsThis document addresses the response of Mercy Corps towards COVID-19 Wash challenges in different countries around the world. Mercy corps...

By FP2030This FP2030 website includes a framework on key elements in accountability, principles of accountability, and examples of promising accountability...

By FAO and ECLACThe COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the difficulties cities face in managing crises that are exacerbated by population density and...

By IAWGThe Toolkit’s vision is for all adolescents to exercise making informed and autonomous decisions about their sexual and reproductive health...

This action brief summarizes the latest status and trends of key areas related to women’s, children’s and adolescents’ health and...

In 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic drove PMNCH partners to regroup and adopt measures to prevent it from becoming a lasting crisis for women, children and...

As young people, we are well positioned to build support for the health and well-being of this and future generations. Here, we turn our attention to...

This blog looks at the perceived effectiveness of remote learning solutions implemented across five countries and the key lessons learned in the process.Produced...

Commitments in support of PMNCH’s Call to Action on COVID-19 are financial, policy and/or service delivery pledges by partner governments, including...

The PMNCH Call to Action campaign is designed to adopt a country-focused, timebound, prioritized approach. It focuses on leveraging commitments on a specific...

Adolescents are disproportionately affected in humanitarian and fragile settings, where they will often find themselves in high-risk situations and may...

Adolescents are growing up in an increasingly digital world. Whilst their access to – and engagements with – the digital world are diverse,...

The link between education and well-being is well recognized. An adolescent who has access to quality education is more likely to experience well-being...

An important component of the adolescent well-being framework is the domain of agency and resilience that contributes to ensuring all adolescents “have...

The wellbeing of today’s adolescents is paramount for our future. They will shape global outcomes in the decades ahead and will be both the parents...

The COVID-19 pandemic has had far-reaching impacts on people everywhere, but with divergent impacts across the life-course. Although mortality and morbidity...

This paper summarizes key lessons from thirteen background papers (Background Papers 2-14 (BP 2-14)) prepared for the series of multi-stakeholder consultations...

This paper summarizes key programmatic lessons from a review of ten adolescent well-being programmes across a range of world regions. Programmes were either...

The adolescent well-being framework identifies Safety and a Supportive Environment as one of five domains underpinning adolescent well-being, with sub-domains...

Good health and optimum nutrition extends from the absence of disease and malnutrition to the capacity to cope well with daily tasks and maintain functioning...

Adolescent well-being will be essential to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals and a societal good in its own right. A Global Summit...

Adolescent well-being has received increased attention in recent years, and a new definition and conceptual framework on adolescent well-being has been...

Adolescent well-being is a growing area of policymaking, programming and research, yet there is no consensus on how it should be defined and measured....

The devastating impacts of the climate crisis are threatening global health in ways that are far greater than once feared.  Adolescents are particularly...

Connectedness, positive values and contributions are essential building blocks for adolescent well-being. For a long time, the focus on adolescent health...

WFP and UNICEF present a list of action recommendations for the national/sub-national governments and the nutrition sector to mitigate the effects of the...

Pursuant to resolution WHA69.2 (2016) on committing to implementation of the Global Strategy for Women’s, Children’s and Adolescents’...

The multifaceted implications of the COVID-19 pandemic on the well-being of women and adolescents are increasingly reported. Finding Hope: Experiences...

This guidance documents presents the obstacles that ethnolinguistic minority children will face when re-entering schools and presents suggestions for policy-makers...

This advocacy document addresses the way forward toward future of education and education systems. It advocates for the several crucial principles to enhance...

This advocacy publication provides an overview of the state of school feeding programs before the pandemic, how they were impacted by the pandemic, and...

These seven knowledge-to-action briefs support partners to carry forward the PMNCH Call to Action on COVID-19, which aims to increase investment and...

These seven knowledge-to-action briefs support partners to carry forward the PMNCH Call to Action on COVID-19, which aims to increase investment and...

These seven knowledge-to-action briefs support partners to carry forward the PMNCH Call to Action on COVID-19, which aims to increase investment and...

These seven knowledge-to-action briefs support partners to carry forward the PMNCH Call to Action on COVID-19, which aims to increase investment and...

These seven knowledge-to-action briefs support partners to carry forward the PMNCH Call to Action on COVID-19, which aims to increase investment and...

These seven knowledge-to-action briefs support partners to carry forward the PMNCH Call to Action on COVID-19, which aims to increase investment and...

These seven knowledge-to-action briefs support partners to carry forward the PMNCH Call to Action on COVID-19, which aims to increase investment and...

This document provides a summary of the humanitarian and international organizations' efforts in mitigating global food insecurity through short-term COVID-19...

This blog post addresses the global increase in food prices and insecurity due to the emergence of the pandemic. It highlights the key actions needed to...

The meals that marginalized children get in school are often the only food that they receive per day. As such, school feeding programs can be used as an...

This document describes the effects of the COVID-19-related school closures on child nutrition and access to food. It outlines the governmental efforts...

This guidance document addresses the key aspects to consider while planning a safe and equitable return to school for displaced children.Produced by: UNHCRLearn...

This document addresses the impacts of the pandemic on the lived of Palestinian adolescents in terms of nutrition, education, and protection and provides...

This paper has been developed under the leadership of the PMNCH Strategy Committee, with the following lead partners: GAVI, the Vaccine Alliance, the...

The WHO presents a framework for school reopening through a multi-sectoral approach with special considerations for vulnerable communities. It provides...

Sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) are essential for reaching the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) for health. The Guttmacher-Lancet...

By Voices of youthThe COVID-19 academic disruption is an opportunity to rebuild more resilient Sudanese educational systems which should also focus on...

This contextualized handbook supports the Cambodian Government in shifting classes to the online setting and preventing the loss of all gains made in the...

By UnicefUNICEF conducted telephone surveys with nearly 7000 households in Algeria, Egypt, Jordan, Morocco, Qatar, Syria, and Tunisia to better understand...

By Girls Not BridesThe COVID-19 pandemic is laying bare the precarious reality of Latin America and Caribbean. In this lived experience piece, the author...

By WBGWomen, children and adolescents living in humanitarian setting have been increasingly vulnerable with the spread of the pandemic in conflict affected...

This contextualized document provides a mapping exercise that the UNICEF in Country Offices undertook in Latin America and the Caribbean countries to inform...

This contextualized document describes the impact of prolonged school closures in Latin America and the Caribbean, and includes a call to action for government...

This context-specific document highlights the efforts of the international community in enabling the government of Zimbabwe to enhance children's access...

This blog looks at how remote online platforms have increased the educational gap for vulnerable children who have limited access to the internet and digital...

The following document summarizes and analyzes the strategies and practices that are being employed to support the more marginalized young learners including...

This policy dialogue identifies the main outcomes of policies applied in the sub-region of Southeast Asia and provided policy advice and recommendations...

This advocacy document presents a summary of the latest information on Covid-19 transmission in schools, how to ensure safe school reopening and what impact...

By IRCThis document highlights IRC's response to COVID-19 in different contexts and countries. More information

By Action against HungerThis is a summary of a letter that was written to UN agencies urging them to provide more funding for nutrition and food security...

This document shows the direct and indirect impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on children’s health, nutrition, and wellbeing. It presents recommendations...

Securing the health and well-being of women, children and adolescents is the greatest endeavour of our time. Health and well-being are also basic human...

By WHO, ILO, FAO, IFADThis article shows the impact of COVID-19 on people's livelihood, health, and food systems globally and advocates for seeing this...

The COVID-19 pandemic represents an unprecedented threat to the health and well-being of women, children and adolescents worldwide. The...

This report presented the results of a survey on national education responses to COVID-19 school closures, administered by the UNESCO Institute for Statistics...

As a second sensitive development opportunity, after early childhood, adolescence represents an optimal period in life to learn healthy behaviours, acquire...

By Save the ChildrenThe Sahel Region currently faces an unprecedented crisis as escalating violence, rising levels of food insecurity, continued displacement,...

This contextualized document shows the disruption of Yemeni children's access to education by conflict and the current pandemic combined and addresses...

By UNICEFThis page discusses UNICEF's initiatives in Mozambique that continue to support forcibly displaced populations and address their health and nutrition...

COVID-19 is disrupting mental health services in various countries. This news story highlights findings from a survey of 130 countries that provides the...

By Save the childrenThis article describes the food security/nutrition situation in Syria and highlights some intiatives that Save the Children has done...

In accordance with Executive Board decision EB132(10) (2013), the Programme, Budget and Administration Committee of the Executive Board periodically reviews...

This document presents estimates of the impact of the reduction of health services coverage caused by COVID-19 on achieving or maintaining the 2030 Agenda...

The world is facing a global health pandemic without a clear end in sight. COVID-19 presents a massive shock to already struggling health systems globally...

By UnicefThe youth and adolescents of the UNICEF-supported youth center in As-Sweida in Syria, are roaming the streets of the city sanitizing the public...

UNICEF urges governments and partners to mitigate the impact of the pandemic on children, especially vulnerable refugee children, by providing essentials...

This is an annex to the WHO Public Health and Social Measures in the context of COVID-19 replacing an earlier version and applies to educational settings...

This guidance document describes the United Nation's response to COVID-19 and the actions taken to help countries in the recovery process from COVID-19....

This advocacy document addresses how the provision of school nutrition and health programs can decrease the percentage of school drop-outs, especially...

Preventing the current global learning crisis from becoming a generational catastrophe requires urgent action from all. This policy brief encourages governments...

This guidance document provides contextualized guidelines to guarantee continuity of education during school closures, and proposes evidence-based strategies...

This situation report describes the updated national, regional, and global estimates for WASH in schools with a special focus on COVID-19.Produced by: WHO...

By FAOUNFPA is working with governments and partners to respond to the essential needs of women and girls of reproductive age who are affected by the COVID-19...

This publication provides guidelines for reopening of services for 2-8-year-old children and their families. It includes an interactive checklist that...

By UNFPAUNFPA addressed various questions regarding COVID-19 including a question on how the pandemic will affect low-income countries and those affected...

By UNESCWAThe COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated the inequalities that Arab youth experience, especially those living in low-income, and conflict affected...

This Statement seeks to galvanize local and global health and development communities around a common understanding of how we can ensure that young people...

It is widely recognized that meaningful engagement of adolescents helps to improve health policies and services for adolescents, which in turn improve...

By Compact for Young People in Humanitarian ActionThe Compact for Young People in Humanitarian Action is committed to mitigating and responding to this...

By UNICEFGIGA is an initiative created by UNICEF and ITU aiming to connect all schools to the Internet to provide youth with information, opportunity,...

This document discusses the impact of school closures on the curricula and the educational staff, the methods for evaluating academic progress and highlights...

By UnicefThe Red Cross Society youth volunteers are reaching remote communities in Micronesia to spread awareness on prevention and hygiene practices such...

These guidelines aim to inform the decision-making process regarding school reopening, support national preparations and guide the implementation process,...

This guidance document offers a list of multi-sectoral recommendations concerning education, health, nutrition, protection and WASH services, to consider...

By UNICEFThis page provides answers to commonly asked questions on the state of malnutrition and food security during the pandemic in West Darfur.More...

By Save the ChildrenThis document outlines the consequences the pandemic had on children and youth's lives and aims at highlighting the key ways that governments...

By FAOThere are 476 million indigenous peoples around the world, constituting 6.2 percent of the global population and, according to different sources,...

Every adolescent has a right to mental health. Promotion and protection of mental health can improve quality of life, strengthen human capital, contribute...

A description of the concerns from charities and academics regarding child and adolescent mental health and related services during the pandemic and the...

By UnicefThe UNICEF-supported center for youth and adolescents in Jaramana, Damascus offers youth life skills workshops and vocational trainings. The COVID-19...

By UnicefMigrant, refugee, returnee and internally displaced children not only experience the direct and immediate impacts of COVID-19 and its socioeconomic...

This advocacy document highlights the socioeconomic impacts of the pandemic on the most vulnerable children and their families and calls upon country governments,...

This guidance note offers principles to maximize countries’ effectiveness in designing and executing remote learning.Produced by: World BankLearn...

PMNCH has issued a 7-point Call to Action, calling on governments to strengthen political commitment, policies and financing to protect and promote the...

By UnicefAs a national lockdown was enforced in Uganda, The Straight Talk Foundation, has shifted its awareness program to the radio, where junior journalists...

This advocacy agenda was produced for reproductive and maternal health and was driven by the demands from 1.2 million women’s and girls’ who...

By UnicefThe government of Nigeria and UNICEF initiated the COVID-19 innovation challenge, a platform that provides awareness to youth and adolescents...

Achieving UHC involves investing in primary health care to tackle health inequities and deliver services at the community level. In so many places, women,...

By Jayathma WickramanayakeFor many of us, these past months of quarantine have been very difficult. The stress and uncertainty caused by the COVID-19 pandemic...

In order to understand what effects school closures are having on school attainment and learning, and to help inform mitigation, recovery, and “building...

This document is an annex to the Interim Briefing Note and is meant to support the MHPSS operational response within the various sectors of humanitarian...

By UNESCWAThe COVID-19 pandemic exacerbated the inequalities that young individuals living in Arab countries experience, especially low-income and conflict...

This Policy brief provides governments and stakeholders with practical guidance for an improved understanding of safe and inclusive access to services...

By UnicefMore information

This contextualized document shows the efforts of UNICEF in maintaining students' access to education and meals in spite of school closures in Guatemala.Produced...

This resource discusses the impact of COVID-19 on funding essential maternal, child, and adolescent services and the inequities that have been exacerbated...

By Afghanistan Public Health InstituteThis policy brief includes recommendations on how the healthcare authorities in Afghanistan can continue to improve...

This document provides guidance to governments, policymakers, international organizations on the continuity of learning while schools remain closed based...

This advocacy document addresses how food supply chains were impacted by the pandemic and presents priority areas that require action interventions.Produced...

By UnicefYoung entrepreneurs in Madagascar are contributing to their communities through initiatives to compensate the limited availability of hygiene...

This is a comprehensive guidance document to help governments and policy makers in maintaining essential health care services during COVID-19 pandemic....

By UNFPAThe COVID-19 pandemic and restrictions has further aggravated women and young girls' lack of access to sanitation and hygiene products in conflict...

By UnicefThis document highlights issues relating to prevention and response programming for Children Associated with Armed Forces or Armed Groups (CAAFAG)...

By Action Against Hunger, ILO, IOM, IRC, IFRC, OCHA, UNHCR, Save the children, UNICEF, IRISH AID, World Vision, WFP, FAO, OXFAM, MERCY CORPS, CRS, and...

Halfway to the MDG target date, it is clear that the “business as usual” approach to the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) 4 and 5 - to...

The following document is a guidance for decision-makers on reopening schools safely in the context of Covid-19. Produced by: UNICEFLearn more

This document provides a practical guide for parliamentarians and policymakers to update of the 9 major pillars of COVID‑19 preparedness and response and...

By UNDPThis policy documents series provides timely and technically solid proposals for stakeholders to take the appropriate decisions to help preserve...

This advocacy document presents key actions and policies to limit the effect of school closures on children's lives including their access to food and...

By UnicefThis news story highlights the exacerbated vulnerability of the internally displaced children and youth during the pandemic in terms of access...

By Save the childrenThis document sheds light on the situation that Somalia is facing with regards to access to essential health and nutrition services...

COVID-19 has highlighted the need to invest in mental health as a priority. Children similar to other vulnerable groups are also at risk for mental health...

These guidelines are intended to support policy-makers designing back-to-school policies and developing school reopening procedures.The guidelines present...

A blog by the World bank on the increased burden on health systems due to the COVID 19 pandemic in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. Produced...

This document provides key strategic areas to support the continuity in the provision of essential sexual, reproductive, maternal, neonatal, child, and...

In 2013, the PMNCH Board commissioned an external evaluation of PMNCH. Its aim was to evaluate whether PMNCH’s vision and mission, and more generally...

In 2019, an external evaluation of PMNCH was commissioned and overseen by PMNCH’s External Evaluation Reference Group, under the, then called, PMNCH...

This guidance includes practical recommendations for decision makers to help keep communities and health workers safe, to sustain essential services at...

By Global Nutrition ClusterThis document provides guidance on how to adapt core nutrition cluster coordination functions to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic,...

By WHOThis document provides guidance on how to maintain essential healthcare and nutrition services during COVID-19 and highlights the importance of these...

These Q&A addresses issues raised by adolescent in the times of COVID-19 including violence. (Question number 19)Produced by: WHOLearn more        

The following briefing paper, addresses the impact that the pandemic had on schools and students in the UK. It also focuses on the considerations to follow...

This policy brief advocates for addressing human rights in the COVID-19 response, emphasizing women's and girls’ needs and rights. (page 1)Produced...

This advocacy addresses food safety and the prevention of transmission of the virus during the food chain process.Produced by: FAOLearn more   

The following guidance document describes safe school operations and how to implement them with government and local partners and methods to ensure continuityof...

By UN Sustainable Development GroupChildren are not the face of this pandemic. But they risk being among its biggest victims. While they have thankfully...

By Global Nutrition Cluster, UNICEFThis statement calls on stakeholders and countries to acknowledge children affected by children as high risk groups...

By WHO, UNFPA, UNICEFThis document provides guidance on how countries can maintain essential maternal, child, and adolescent health services during the...

This report discusses the impact of COVID-19 on vulnerable populations and highlights the importance of ensuring human rights are at the forefront of every...

This contextualized document encompasses the alternative distance learning methods used in Arab countries such as the radio and television to access educational...

This context-specific piece addresses the main measures conducted at the ministerial level to maintain the continuity of education in sub-Saharan African....

This guidance note is intended to help parliamentarians push for and ministries of education and health maintain hygiene, and prevent Covid-19 infection...

This technical brief lays out the value and the role adolescents and young people can play in maintaining sexual and reproductive health and rights including...

This guidance presents key mental health and psychosocial support (MHPSS) considerations in relation to the 2019 novel coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak.Produced...

By UNICEFThis article highlights the importance of providing food and nutrition aid in Yemen during the pandemic due to high malnutrition rates and famine.More...

By CareThe paper explores a range of potential implications including: disruption to development and humanitarian programmes that support women and girls;...

The purpose of this guidance document is to provide clear and actionable guidelines for safe operations through prevention, and early detection and control...

This contextualized document summarizes Shanghai's response in the academic sector during the Covid-19 pandemic. It addresses the governmental policies,...

The World Health Organization’s 2018– 2019 survey finds that a great majority of countries worldwide have policies on sexual and reproductive...

Detailed practical considerations for countries to sustain quality sexual, reproductive, maternal, newborn, child, and adolescent health (SRMNCAH) services...

The overarching PMNCH strategy and a more detailed business plan for its delivery will be included in a single Strategy document (rather than a separate...

In October 2015, PMNCH created a constituency focused on Adolescents and Youth (A&Y) representing the needs of young people within the Partnership...

This document is the result of a collaborative effort. The Swedish International Development Corporation Agency, Sida, funded and coordinated this work...

Eswatini is a lower-middle-income country and spends 14.9% of its budget on health (2015). With one of the better resourced health sectors in the region,...

Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) for women’s children’s and adolescents’ health (WCAH) requires strengthening accountability...

This advocacy brief: Rolling out the Advocating for Change for Adolescents toolkit in five countries, shares the highlights of, challenges to...

The movement for universal health coverage (UHC) provides an unprecedented opportunity to accelerate progress towards ending preventable deaths and improving...

Message from the Executive DirectorThis annual report is a slimmed down version of our deliverables for the year, but I hope it offers more than a glimpse...

The last twenty years have seen an exponential growth in the number of people on the move. Today around one billion people are estimated to be migrating...

Social accountability, which is also referred to as political accountability or demand-led accountability, is characterized by its core elements of targeted...

The Sustainable Development Goals and global political momentum behind Universal Health Coverage (UHC) offer significant opportunities to build collective...

The Partners’ Forum 2018 (PF2018) was convened by the Partnership for Maternal, Newborn & Child Health (PMNCH) and the Government of India in...

With support from PMNCH and Women Deliver, the Advocating for Change for Adolescents toolkit was created by young people for young people, to lead and...

We are thrilled to present the second and updated version of the Advocating for Change for Adolescents! toolkit, a joint effort between The Partnership...

Scenario building is a methodology that allows us to make sense of a complex issue and to understand how the actors involved prioritise forces that shape...

As PMNCH moves forward to fulfil its strategic convening and partnership role, it is critical that the AYC play its role of bringing adolescent and youth...

Intractable issues such as wars, violence, political upheaval, religious persecution, economic instability and sociopolitical crisis uprooted record...

In 2015, PMNCH created a constituency for Adolescents and Youth (AYC), providing an opportunity for young people to advance the Sustainable Development...

This case study describes the Country Health Situation Room initiative, an approach developed in seven countries in sub-Saharan Africa to date in partnership...

This document summarizes key objectives and related activities to be undertaken by the Partnership for Maternal, Newborn & Child Health (PMNCH; Partnership)...

Improving the health and well-being of women, children and adolescents is the greatest collective endeavour of our time. We live in a world of gross inequality...

With relatively limited health spending (US$ 29 per capita annually), Ethiopia has significantly improved its health outcomes.1 This is largely due to...

PMNCH was a partnership on the move in 2017. We kicked off the year determined to get it right by ensuring that all our energies and resources were focused...

Nigeria’s health sector is primarily funded by outof-pocket spending, which accounts for 70% or more of total health expenditure. Development partner...

South Africa is an upper-middle-income country, with some of the world’s widest socioeconomic inequalities. These contribute to poor health outcomes...

The past two decades have been marked by substantive progress in reducing maternal and child deaths. Yet progress has often been slow to reach those...

All essential health care services in Malawi’s public sector are in theory free at the point of delivery; however, the services offered are severely...

In 2015, there were 125 million people in need of humanitarian assistance. Today’s growing levels of conflict, humanitarian crisis and associated...

The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) seek to address some of the world’s biggest challenges: ending extreme poverty, ensuring health and...

This report presents the indicator and monitoring framework for the Global Strategy for Women’s, Children’s and Adolescents’...

A child’s earliest years present a window of opportunity to address inequality and achieve sustainable development for all. Quality health,...

Due in large part to the tremendous progress in child survival efforts under the MDGs, todays number of  adolescents have risen to unprecedented...

Progress achieved under the MDGs was tremendous and unprecedented, with maternal mortality falling by 45% since 1990 and under-five mortality declining...

As powerful agents of change, women and girls are the drivers of sustainable development. Healthy, educated, and empowered women and girls will foster...

Sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) are inextricably linked to larger development goals like reducing poverty, achieving better health...

The 2016-30 Global Strategy for Women’s, Children’s and Adolescents’ Health (Global Strategy, launched at the  Sustainable...

In September 2015, world leaders agreed on a new set of global sustainable development goals, seeking to address some of the world’s biggest...

This Annual Report reflects a year of significant milestones and achievement for the Partnership for Maternal, Newborn & Child Health. In 2015, we...

This fourth and final report from the independent Expert Review Group on Information and Accountability for Women’s and Children’s Health...

Why an African Investment Case? Investing in African health systems is an opportunity to accelerate economic development and growth, contribute to saving...

The era of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) has witnessed dramatic and unprecedented progress in reducing child and maternal deaths. As...

Rwanda’s health sector has made significant progress in recent years, increasing its health spending and improving access to care. Maternal mortality...

This report aims to synthesise the views of over 2,450 organisations and individuals (Appendix A), who provided feedback on the Zero Draft of the updated...

Government institutions, United Nations agencies, and global partners have been repositioning the role that community health workers (CHWs) can play in...

This report aims to synthesise the views of over 1,400 organisations and individuals (Appendix A) who contributed to the first phase of an on-going and...

By CareCARE’s Community Score Card© (CSC) is a citizen-driven accountability approach for the assessment, planning, monitoring, and evaluation...

The Success Factors for Women’s and Children’s Health report released today at the Partners’ Forum in Johannesburg shows that despite...

This Annual Report reflects a year of significant milestones and achievement for the Partnership for Maternal, Newborn & Child Health. In 2015, we...

The fundamental right to the highest attainable standard of health, including physical, mental and social well-being has been recognized in many global,...

The fundamental right to the highest attainable standard of health, including physical, mental and social well-being has been recognized in many global,...

The fundamental right to the highest attainable standard of health, including physical, mental and social well-being has been recognized in many global,...

The fundamental right to the highest attainable standard of health, including physical, mental and social well-being has been recognized in many global,...

Strengthening Accountability: Achievements and Perspectives for Women's, Children's and Adolescents' Health Executive Summary This is the fifth Partnership...

Ahuman rights-based approach to programming differs from the basic needs approach in that it recognizes the existence of rights. It also reinforces capacities...

With fewer than 1,000 days remaining until the 2015 deadline for the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), Countdown to 2015 data shows the progress that...

This is an African Union Commission policy brief produced as part of a series in support of the International Conference on Maternal, Newborn & Child...

In many countries, RMNCH services represent the primary point of women’s and children’s access to the health system. The stakeholders, messages...

This is an African Union Commission policy brief produced as part of a series in support of the International Conference on Maternal, Newborn & Child...

Improving health outcomes for women and children requires sufficient funding to implement proven quality interventions that span the continuum of care...

The demographic dividend refers to the opportunity for accelerated economic growth that results from changes in a country’s age structure combined...

The Global Strategy for Women’s and Children’s Health (Global Strategy), launched by the United Nations (UN) Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon...

Since 2000, the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) have provided a framework for prioritizing and accelerating initiatives aimed at improving the health...

Afocus on the health of the girl child is essential for reproductive, maternal, newborn, and child health efforts.a Girls under the age of 15 are five...

Part 1 Publisher: The Partnership for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health Date of publication: 2013 Language: English Number of pages: 30 Introduction In...

Poor quality of care is a critical barrier to women and children’s utilization of health services in low- and middleincome countries (LMICs). Wait times,...

Mothers continue to die needlessly before, during and after childbirth due to preventable conditions. The Maternal Death Surveillance and Response (MDSR)...

The burden of mortality and ill-health is carried by the most vulnerable and hardest-to reach women and children: the poorest, those living with HIV/AIDS,...

In September 2010, in an effort to accelerate progress on Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) 4 and 5, the United Nations Secretary-General launched the...

The health of women and children is at the forefront of the development agenda. Despite this, we have been making less progress on the Millennium Development...

Improving health outcomes for women and children requires effective use of funding to implement proven interventions that span the continuum of care from...

RationaleCivil Registration and Vital Statistics (CRVS) systems comprise the total process of collecting information on the occurrence and characteristics...

Accountability is central to a human rights based approach to health and it can be a powerful tool to improve women’s and children’s health and well-being....

Many countries face challenges in providing their citizens with universal access to essential health services. Direct out-of-pocket payments for consultation,...

Local autonomy is not an end, but a means. The aim of decentralization is to increase local authority to implement results-based management and to enforce...

6.9 million children under the age of five and nearly 287,000 mothers die every year from preventable causes. While significant efforts have been made...

Implementing and scaling-up effective interventions to improve reproductive, maternal, newborn and child health (RMNCH) is a challenge for many countries....

Countdown to 2015 tracks the coverage of key interventions focused on reproductive, maternal, newborn and child health (RMNCH). It aims to stimulate...

Improving health outcomes for women and children requires suffi cient funding to implement proven interventions that span the continuum of care from...

Advocacy entails a set of coordinated strategic activities that aim to bring about a desired and lasting political change, and is most effective when...

Improving health outcomes for women and children requires suffi cient funding to implement proven interventions that span the continuum of care from...

Women and Children have multiple, inter-related health needs. Addressing these needs across the ‘Continuum of Care’ in an integrated manner...

Nutritional status greatly influences an individual’s growth, educational attainment, productivity, reproductive success, and susceptibility to...

Nutritional status greatly infl uences an individual’s growth, educational attainment, productivity, reproductive success and susceptibility to...

In the pursuit to take forward the Global Strategy for Women’s and Children’s Health and accelerate progress toward Millennium Development...

The government is responsible for and accountable to the citizens of a country for the protection of human rights and provision of basic services such...

Le mariage d’enfants touche chaque année10 millions de filles âgées de moins de 18 ans. Ses répercussions négatives sur le plan sanitaire et...

On behalf of the Board and secretariat of The Partnership for Maternal, Newborn & Child Health (PMNCH), we are pleased to introduce The PMNCH 2012...

This document sets out the Strategic Framework for the operations of the Partnership for Maternal, Newborn & Child Health (the Partnership) over the...

Publisher/Organizer: The Partnership for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health Publication date: 2009 Language: English, French This consensus...

Today’s adolescents face serious challenges, in a rapidly shifting world. These range from rapid changes in population and the impact of climate...