Women, MDGs & Africa - A Resource Guide

Select Resources on Goal 4: Child Mortality

Publications:

14th meeting of the Africa Partnership Forum, Toronto, Canada, April 2010, MDG overview (2010)

G8 Muskoka Declaration (2010) 

GAVI Alliance ‘Protecting women’s and children’s health’ (2010)

Human Sciences Research Council ‘South African National HIV Prevalence, Incidence, Behaviour and Communications Survey 2008 – The health of our children’ (2010)

Save the Children 'A fair chance at life: Why equity matters for child mortality' (2010)

Save the Children 'A Global Action Plan for Maternal, Newborn and Child Survival' (2010)

The Global Fund ‘Investments in the health of women and children: Global Fund support of Millennium Development Goals 4 and 5’ (2010)

UNDG MDG Thematic Paper on MDG 4, 5 & 6; Reduce child mortality, Improve maternal health & Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases (2010)

UNDP “What will it take to achieve the Millennium Development Goals? An International Assessment” (2010)

UNICEF ‘The State of the World’s children Report; Maternal and Newborn Health’ (2008)

UNIFEM ‘Progress of the world’s women 2008/2009: Who answers to women?’ (2008)

 

Organizations:

Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

GAVI Alliance

Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN)

Save the Children

The Global Fund for Children

United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) and UNICEF ChildInfo

UN Joint Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS)

World Health Organization (WHO)

 

Best practices:

The Partnership for Newborn, Maternal and Child Health (2010)

UNDG MDG Good Practices (2010) Chapter 3 MDG 4, MDG5, MDG 6 – Child mortality, Maternal health and Combating diseases

 

Outreach material:

GAVI ’Protecting women’s and children’s health’ (2010)

The Global Fund Born HIV free campaign

 

Statistics and other resources:

Childinfo.org  Monitoring the situation of children and women, A world fit for children

Childinfo.org Child Survival and Health

CME Info database

DevInfo

Demographic and Health Surveys (Measure DHS)

The Partnership for Newborn, Maternal and Child Health ‘Healthy Women, Healthy Children’ (2010)

The Partnership for Newborn, Maternal and Child Health Factsheets on Rwanda and Mali (2010)

UNICEF ‘The State of the World Children Special Edition’ Statistical tables (2009)

UNICEF The State of the World’s children Report, on Maternal and new born health

WHO World Health Statistics 2010 Indicators