In 2009 DFID published a new White Paper on International Development setting out how the UK Government aims to continue helping deliver better lives for the world’s poorest and most vulnerable people. Women and Children First made recommendations to DFID covering the following: meeting commitments to and fully financing maternal, newborn and child health, supporting community participation in health systems and supporting sustainable community solutions to health challenges such as women’s groups, and ensuring that MDGs 4 and 5 are at the core of UK government development policy.
To read Women and Children First's submission to the UK government white paper consultation on international development click here.
UK government White Paper on International Development (2009)
Saving Lives
Up to half a million women and three million newborn babies die each year in pregnancy and childbirth or soon afterwards, the majority of them in Africa and South Asia. For every woman who dies at least twenty more suffer complications which leave them with lifelong disability and pain.
Our unique programmes are saving the lives of mothers and babies every day. We need you to help us to equip women with their most vital survival tool: knowledge.
