New MNCH knowledge sharing portal launched
13 DECEMBER 2010
Publisher: The Partnership for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health
13 December 2010 - PMNCH has just launched a new knowledge sharing portal to provide a systemic mechanism - or gateway - to its partners' maternal, newborn and child health (MNCH) knowledge resources and expert networks. “Essential MNCH Knowledge” portal was launched at the 2010 Partners’ Forum along with an accompanying suite of MNCH Knowledge Summaries touching on five key elements: Participation + innovation; MDGs 4 + 5 Challenges + accountability; Proven interventions; Effective health systems; and Equitable financing.
“Essential MNCH Knowledge” is a gateway to MNCH knowledge resources from more than 350 PMNCH partner organizations working on MNCH. It buildd on the commitment of partner organizations to share and translate knowledge to promote policies and practice that in turn promote MNCH and responds to the fact that much of the present MNCH knowledge is scattered over diverse sources, is of variable quality, is not equitably accessible and is insufficiently 'translated' for policy and practice.
This first phase provides an integrated, customised search function to these resources and is supported by PMNCH.
Sharing Knowledge for Action on Maternal, Newborn and Child Health
One element of “Essential MNCH Knowledge” is the document comprising 12 Knowledge Summaries: Sharing Knowledge for Action on Maternal, Newborn and Child Health.
The Partnership for Maternal, Newborn & Child Health and the University of Aberdeen have released the first edition of Sharing Knowledge for Action on Maternal, Newborn and Child Health. This document contains twelve Knowledge Summaries that focus on action, and their immediate purpose is to help policy-makers and program managers turn promises made into lives saved – 16 million of them by 2015. The Summaries touch on five key MNCH elements: Participation + innovation; MDGs 4 + 5 Challenges + accountability; Proven interventions; Effective health systems; and Equitable financing.