| Coverage Working Group |
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Coverage is the foundation of the Countdown to 2015 initiative. The Countdown tracks progress
in the achievement of high, equitable and sustained coverage for interventions
that are proven to reduce mortality among women of reproductive age, newborns
and children less than five years of age, and publicizes the results as a means
of holding countries and their partners accountable for progress and stimulating continuous improvement .
The
Working Group on Coverage aims to ensure that all measures of coverage included
in the Countdown reflect the best available indicators and data, reported in
standard and transparent ways across countries and over time. This requires developing and maintaining
links with other groups who are involved in the collection, analysis and
reporting on key coverage indicators, and working to address methodological
challenges.
The Working Group on Coverage will also lead and coordinate
secondary analyses of the Countdown coverage data in collaboration with other
Working Groups and researchers. This is
needed in order to ensure that the Countdown initiative continues to contribute
to knowledge about factors that promote or hinder the rapid scale up of
effective interventions.
This work will be based jointly in the UNICEF Division of
Policy and Planning in New York and the
Institute for International Programs at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of
Public Health in Baltimore.
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