The PMNCH 2014 Report. Tracking Financial Commitments to the Global Strategy for Women’s and Children’s Health

Overview

This Annual Report reflects a year of significant milestones and achievement for the Partnership for Maternal, Newborn & Child Health. In 2015, we celebrated the 10th anniversary of the Partnership’s creation to achieve MDGs 4 and 5. We celebrated by playing a leading role in shaping the world’s efforts to advance the full continuum of care for women’s, children’s and adolescents’ health for the next 15 years to deliver on the SDG agenda.

As we worked to conclude our 2012-2015 Strategic Framework, we focused on our three priority areas—knowledge, accountability and advocacy. One great example was the Knowledge Summary on “Operationalizing human rights in efforts to improve health”, produced in collaboration with more than 10 partner organisations. This document highlights the importance of human rights principles and approaches in improving health and points to concrete examples of how to integrate human rights for women, children and adolescents along the life course. This year felt very much like a life-course with endings giving way to new beginnings. We launched our final Accountability report on the Global Strategy for Women’s and Children’s Health and wrapped up Countdown to 2015 with their tenth and final report: “Decade of tracking progress in maternal, newborn and child survival”. Both reports pave the way for how we deliver the SDGs and will shape our future accountability efforts. Our advocacy in 2015 centred on support for global, regional and local consultations to inform the updated Global Strategy. The consultation process strongly demonstrated our added value as an inclusive platform for: synthesizing and disseminating evidence, convening thousands of stakeholders across sectors and giving voice to the most marginalized communities.