Country advocacy priorities for improving women’s, children’s, and adolescents’ health

Overview

Through the Millennium Development Goal era and into the early years of the Sustainable Development Goal era, the world saw significant progress in reducing mortality and morbidity for women, children, and adolescents, recognizing the importance of these improvements as a moral imperative, as well as effective investments in future social well-being and economic prosperity. Yet in recent years, we have seen serious challenges to sustaining political attention for WCAH issues, as contexts shift, and other issues rise and compete for limited policy attention and resources. This has led to a very real crises and lack of universal coverage of essential services for women, children and adolescents as highlighted within the 2022 EWEC Protect the Promise Report. In 2022, we see ongoing disruptions to WCAH from the triple threat of COVID-19, climate change, and conflict, and the subsequent financial constraints which threaten to reverse significantly hard-won progress.