Culminating a global summit on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and Heads of State and Government, along with the private sector, foundations, international organisations, civil society and research organisations, kicked off a concerted world-wide effort to save the lives of more than 16 million women and children. At a special UN event to launch the Global Strategy for Women’s and Children’s Health, stakeholders pledged over $40 billion in resources for women’s and children’ health.
Women and Children First welcomes and endorses the Global Strategy for Women’s and Children’s Health. In line with the responsibilities outlined in the strategy Women and Children First pledges to advocate for increased attention to women’s and children’s health and increased investment in it in the run up to the MDG target date in 2015. Through local partners on the ground we pledge to educate, engage and mobilise communities, track progress and hold stakeholders to account for commitments made, strengthen community and local capabilities to scale up implementation of the most appropriate interventions and to advocate nationally and locally for the increased prioritisation of and investment in women and children’s health. Just one maternal or child death is one death too many in 2010, in 2015 and beyond. For the summary of commitments and press release click here and here
