Ties Boerma. “Keeping Promises, Measuring Results: The Global Strategy and Accountability for Women’s and Children’s Health - Summary Report.” (English) Presentations to the Second Stakeholders Meeting on Implementing the Recommendations of the Commission on Information and Accountability for Women's and Children's Health, Ottawa. Closing Remarks and Final Thoughts (Plenary) 21-22 November 2011

1. Keeping promises, Measuring results:
The Global Strategy and Accountability for
Women's and Children's Health
Summary 22 November 2011

2. 10 COMMISSION RECOMMENDATIONS
10 COMMISSION RECOMMENDATIONS
MULTI-STAKEHOLDER STRATEGIC
MULTI-STAKEHOLDER STRATEGIC
WORKPLAN & BUDGET
WORKPLAN & BUDGET
CONCRETE ACTIONS
CONCRETE ACTIONS
Specific goals, priorities, activities,
Specific goals, priorities, activities,
roles & responsibilities
roles & responsibilities

3. From recommendations
to actions
NHA & MNCH tracking
COMMISSION
RECOMMENDATIONS Country M&E systems
1 Monitoring results & CRVS
Birth and death registration
2 11 core indicators & equity
Quality of care and maternal
3 Digital health & innovation Country death surveillance & response
Actions
4 Financial indicators tracked Digital health & innovation
5 Comprehensive reporting
Country review processes
6 Capacity for NHA
7 National Accountability Advocacy and action
mechanisms
Monitoring results
8 Global transparency Global
actions
9 MNCH specific reporting Tracking resources
10 Expert Review Mechanism
Global review (iERG)

4. Key actions, features of
success
NHA & MNCH tracking
Plan to track resources for health & RMNCH
WHO, WB, USAID, BMGF, +
Coordination mechanism, partner agreement
Country M&E systems
Institutional capacity, data collection systems
Birth and death registration
Quality of care and maternal
death surveillance & response
Strong M&E plan and platform, partner alignment
Digital health & innovation
IHP+ quality & transparency
Data M&E Working Group
Country review processes Institutional capacity and innovation
Advocacy and action
Monitoring results
CRVS systems assessments & plans
Regional collaborations
Government commitment & capacity
Tracking resources HMN MoVE IT
Innovative approaches tested / scaled up
Global review (iERG)

5. Key actions, features of
success
NHA & MNCH tracking
Maternal death surveillance & response system
Institutional capacity to review & respond
WHO, CDC, acad.inst.
Country M&E systems
Regular quality of care assessments
Birth and death registration
Quality of care and maternal
death surveillance & response
Innovative applications for all areas of
Digital health & innovation Innovation Working Group
women's and children's health (scale)
National eHealth / digital strategy for health
Country review processes
Advocacy and action
Monitoring results
Use health sector reviews / IHP+ approach
Strengthen MNCH component in reviews
IHP+, Countdown, H4+
Tracking resources Institutionalize CD as follow up or complement
Global review (iERG)

6. Key actions, features of
success
NHA & MNCH tracking
Strengthen regional & national mechanisms
Full engagement of CS inH4+
PMNCH, EWEC, CD, reviews
Country M&E systems
Strengthen capacity & coordination, esp. CS
Birth and death registration
Quality of care and maternal
death surveillance & response CD annual profiles and analyses (e.g. for ERG)
Digital health & innovation
Countdown, UNICEF, USAID/CDC
Expand global tracking on MNCH / equity
Ensure survey 2011-14 + capacity strengthening
Country review processes
Advocacy and action
Global resource flows– OECD
OECD Task Team
Country data - WHO
Monitoring results WHO, WB
Tracking resources
Global review (iERG)

7. Common elements
• Institutional capacity
• Advocacy, engagement of civil society, mobilization through mass
media, engagement of politicians
• Innovations, especially IT but also social innovation
• Doing more with the same, supported by catalytic resources
• Alignment of development partners critical
• South to South learning and technical assistance

8. Country roll-out
• Country heterogeneity is a given: start where the country is at
• Country outreach, assessment and priority setting, resulting in roadmap
– using a common tool
• Process: multi-stakeholder multi-country workshops, multi stakeholder
single country engagement;
– Capacity building workshops for gov exp on RMNCH & health (2 in Africa)
– Health data analysis workshop Qatar
– Eastern & Southern Africa Situation assessment & roadmap
• Rapidly expanding number of countries engaged

9. Global processes
• Our Own accountability
– Tracking for transparency and coordination – web based, dedicated staff
– Report cards: IHP+ approach to mutual accountability
– Expert Review Group
• Coordination in specific areas: use of existing platforms
– PMNCH (advocacy)
– IHP+ M&E working group (results)
– HMN MoVE IT initiative (CRVS)
– H4+ with a lead agency
– Countdown collaboration
• Overall coordination:
– Stakeholders forum for accountability (?)

10. THANK YOU