Protecting the progress for women, children and adolescents in the COVID-19 crisis: more and better financing for improved equity

Overview

This paper has been developed under the leadership of the PMNCH Strategy Committee, with the following lead partners: GAVI, the Vaccine Alliance, the World Bank Group (the World Bank), and the Global Financing Facility (GFF), as a background paper to the PMNCH Board’s Agenda Item 4: "Protecting the Progress: Securing more and better financing to ensure greater equity in protecting progress to date for women, children and adolescents in the context of the response to the COVID-19 pandemic’".

The objectives of the Board session are to:

• reflect on the need to protect the progress made to date on women’s, children’s and adolescents’ health (WCAH) and emerging challenges, particularly in the context of our response to the COVID-19 pandemic and especially for the most vulnerable populations; and
• mobilize PMNCH constituencies to target financing to enhance equity and WCAH outcomes, in line with PMNCH’s COVID-19 Call to Action.