PMNCH 2019 Annual Report

Overview

Achieving UHC involves investing in primary health care to tackle health inequities and deliver services at the community level. In so many places, women, children and adolescents are being left behind. A growing evidence base suggests that integrating maternal, newborn, child and adolescent services into primary health care – often delivered by community health workers – is a highly effective strategy to reduce maternal and newborn deaths.

PMNCH’s raison d’être is advocacy to prevent women, children and adolescents from being left behind in the unfinished agendas of achieving UHC and ending preventable maternal and newborn deaths. Addressing these unfinished agendas requires holistic approaches which extend beyond the health sector.

PMNCH’s unique value proposition is that its 1,000+ partners together exert global reach. It is a network of networks, perfectly positioned to lead an advocacy agenda for women, children and adolescents. By harnessing the reach, expertise, influence and sheer soft power wielded by such a joined-up community, we can be much greater than the sum of our parts.