2008 Objectives
- To launch an international Report - including country profiles - describing the coverage of key MNCH interventions in 68 high-burden countries, their trends since 1990, and inequities by wealth quintiles;
- To share stories of success and findings on barriers and solutions for rapid scaling-up of effective MNCH interventions;
- To review new initiatives for aid harmonization and develop coordinated institutional commitments to maternal, newborn and child health efforts;
- To provide updated information on national and international resource flows for MNCH and identify financial gaps towards achieving universal coverage;
- To review new initiatives for accountability and aid harmonization and develop coordinated institutional commitments to maternal, newborn and child health efforts;
- To sensitize Parliamentarians of the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) to maternal, newborn and child health.
Expected outcomes
- Information of progress and current MNCH intervention coverage levels in 68 countries disseminated;
- Share successful country experiences for scaling-up effective interventions at the country level;
- Develop firm commitments to intensify action to scale-up maternal, newborn and child health interventions made by national and international policy- and decision-makers (including with help of IPU Parliamentarians);
- Modalities for aid harmonization and partnership at the country level and commitments made to increased investment in MNCH.
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