The Partnership for Maternal Newborn & Child Health (PMNCH), which The Hunger Project (THP) is part of, disclosed a policy brief on “Placing Healthy Women and Children at the Heart of the Post 2015 Sustainable Development Framework” on 31 March 2014. PMNCH through its Post 2015 Working Group is advocating for a Post 2015 framework that addresses women’s and children’s health issues and is rights-based, people-centered, equity focused, gender sensitive, participatory and adopts a cross-sectoral approach to health.
The full PMNCH policy briefing can be downloaded here.
Specifically PMNCH calls for the Post 2015 Framework to:
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Include a stand-alone health goal that maximizes health and well-being, specifying an end to preventable mortality and morbidity and fulfillment of sexual and reproductive health and rights; achieving this through universal health coverage, with targets that guide countries to leave no one behind
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Focus on the most critical population groups for maximizing progress towards improving health and development outcomes, particularly newborns and adolescents
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Integrate health-related targets into all relevant sectors such as nutrition, education, gender, and infrastructure such as water, sanitation and energy to address the underlying determinants of health
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Include differentiated targets for countries based on their levels of development.
(Adopted from PMNCH)
For a related blog on Post 2015 agendas, search Post-2015 on our advocacy page.
About Partnership for Maternal Newborn & Child Health (PMNCH).
PMNCH joins the reproductive, maternal, newborn and child health (RMNCH) communities into an alliance of more than 500 members, across seven constituencies: academic, research and teaching institutions; donors and foundations; health-care professionals; multilateral agencies; non-governmental organizations; partner countries; and the private sector (PMNCH, 2014).
References:
PMNCH, 2014. Retrieved on 1 April 2014 from http://www.who.int/pmnch/about/en/