PMNCH Success Stories

Success stories in strengthening  sexual, reproductive, maternal, newborn, child and adolescent health and well-being and informing advocacy and accountability for women's, children's and adolescent health. 

The global health community is facing a critical moment for the women, children and adolescent health agenda.

In the final run-up to the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), there is an urgent need to accelerate progress on unmet commitments for maternal, newborn and child health, including SDGs 3.1 and 3.2, to end preventable maternal and child mortality, including neonatal mortality and stillbirths, especially in the highest burden settings. Recent global policy and legislative rollbacks on sexual and reproductive health and rights reveals a pressing need to ensure sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) remains high on the global agenda and mis/disinformation in this space is countered by evidence-based advocacy. In addition, adolescent health remains undervalued in national plans with minimal policy focus and funding, and concerted efforts are required to ensure that adolescent health remains central to the global health and development agenda post-2030.

Some countries have made incredible strides in advancing sexual and reproductive rights, gender equality, and women’s, children’s, and adolescents’ health against the odds. What did they do to change their trajectory? What did they learn in the process? This Success Story series unpacks the advocacy levers that shifted the landscape for women’s, children’s, and adolescents’ health. It aims to enable cross-country learning, create an environment of hope, and inspire collaborative action, innovation, and sustained commitment and accountability to improving women’s health across the life course globally, and focused on where the burden is greatest.

The first of these Success Stories focuses on Malawi’s investment in family planning commodities and has been published in November 2025. Additional stories are being developed.