COVID-19 toolkit for parliamentarians

The collateral damage from COVID-19 continues to set-back progress in sexual, reproductive, maternal, newborn and child health, including stillbirths. Protection and acceleration of progress is needed more than ever.

PMNCH has produced a parliamentarian toolkit on women's, children's and adolescents' health and well-being during COVID-19 as part of its Toolkits Series on COVID-19 and Women's, Children's and Adolescents' Health (WCAH). The toolkit aims to provide access to key resources (advocacy, multi-media, guidance) that are targeted to parliamentarians, with the goal of helping them to prioritize and address challenges around women’s, children’s and adolescents’ health and well-being in debates and policies, and to ensure visibility of WCAH within response and recovery plans for COVID-19.

Developed through a partner-centric approach, this Parliamentarian toolkit will be regularly updated.  Additionally in early 2020 (and pre COVID-19) PMNCH partnered with IPU to produce an action-oriented handbook for ministers and their staff. This handbook provides clear guidance on what actions parliaments and ministers can take to improve the health and well-being of women, children and adolescents within their settings.   

We invite parliamentarians, policy-makers and our constituencies to explore from the selections below: 

Disclaimer: In line with  PMNCH's COVID-19 publication policy, only resources that align with WHO guidelines and recommendations are included in the toolkit