Protect the progress: rise, refocus, recovery - report
25 September 2020
| Global report
Overview
2020 Progress Report on the Every Woman Every Child Global Strategy for Women’s, Children’s and Adolescents’ Health (2016–2030)Trends in women’s, children’s and adolescents’ health in the past 10 years: progress for many but not for all The past 10 years have been a time of progress for many of the world’s women, children and adolescents, and the Every Woman Every Child (EWEC) movement, launched in September 2010, has been one of the key multilateral drivers of progress in this regard. The movement’s mobilizing efforts have contributed to dramatic success throughout the decade in many indicators relevant to women’s, children’s and adolescents’ health, such as in reducing maternal and child mortality and in improving child nutrition and education. Yet, inequities have persisted across regions and countries, and within countries.
EWEC is focused on delivering on the updated Global Strategy for Women’s, Children’s and Adolescents’ Health (2016–2030). This strategy is closely aligned with the movement’s main overall objectives and was developed to translate the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, which articulated the Sustainable Development Goals, into concrete guidance on how to hasten progress for women, children and adolescents through a multisectoral approach. The Strategy includes a monitoring framework with 60 indicators to help countries and their partners promote accountability in ending preventable deaths (survive), ensuring health and wellbeing (thrive), and expanding enabling environments, so that all women, children and adolescents can reach their potential (transform). EWEC includes six focus areas, all examined in this report: early childhood development; adolescent health and wellbeing; quality, equity and dignity in services; sexual and reproductive health and rights; empowerment of women, girls and communities; and humanitarian and fragile settings.
Editors
WHO, UNICEF
Number of pages
71
Reference numbers
ISBN: 9789240011991
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