WHO EB147 - Review of the Partnership for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health

Overview

In accordance with Executive Board decision EB132(10) (2013), the Programme, Budget and Administration Committee of the Executive Board periodically reviews the arrangements for hosted health partnerships. The present document should, therefore, be considered together with the Committee’s own report to the Executive Board.

This report summarizes the contribution of the Partnership for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health to improved health outcomes, the harmonization of its work with the relevant work of WHO, and the Secretariat’s interaction with the Partnership.

The Partnership was established in 2005 as a response to a growing global concern that the targets for the Millennium Development Goals 4 (Reduce child mortality) and 5 (Improve maternal health) were unlikely to be met by 2015. The Partnership united three existing partnerships: the Partnership for Safe Motherhood and Newborn Health, hosted by WHO in Geneva; the Healthy Newborn Partnership, hosted by Save the Children USA; and the Child Survival Partnership, hosted by UNICEF in New York. Since then, the Partnership for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health has moved towards supporting the entire spectrum of women’s, children’s and adolescents’ health, in accordance with the updated United Nations Secretary-General’s Every Woman Every Child Global Strategy for Women’s, Children’s and Adolescents’ Health (2016–2030) (the Global Strategy).