Partnership for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health (PMNCH)

The Partnership for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health (PMNCH) is the major coordinating mechanism for the implementation of the Global Strategy for Women and Children’s Health (GSWCH). It has identified the following three Strategic Objectives:

SO 1: Broker knowledge and innovation for action, leading to increased access to, and use of, knowledge and innovations to enhance policy, service delivery and financing mechanisms.

SO 2: Advocate for mobilizing and aligning resources and for greater engagement, leading to additional resource commitments for RMNCH, visibility of women’s and children’s health issues in relevant forums, and consensus on evidence-based policy development and implementation.

SO 3: Promote accountability for resources and results, leading to better information to monitor RMNCH results, as well as better and more systematic tracking of how resource commitments are actually allocated.

Responding to the need to facilitate the mobilization and channelling of financing and the rapid scale-up of interventions for women's and children's health, PMNCH commissioned a review of options to strengthen global financing channels for Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn and Child Health.

SEEK Development and the Global Health Group, with guidance from PMNCH lead partners (DFID, Family Care International and Norad) and support from the PMNCH secretariat produced a report Strengthening the Global Financing Architecture for Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn and Child Health (RMNCH). In October 2012 it was presented at the PMNCH board meeting in Paris. A PMNCH task team on RMNCH financing has since continued discussions on the options presented, and the way forward.

Resources:

SEEK Development

Global Health Group of the University of California