Financing better futures starts with investing in women, children and adolescents
As development assistance declines and fiscal pressures grow, financing decisions are becoming the defining battleground for women's, children's and adolescents' health. PMNCH is mobilizing partners to protect essential services, strengthen domestic resource mobilization and keep WCAH at the centre of global health financing reform.
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Why financing WCAH matters now
Investing in women, children and adolescents is one of the smartest choices societies can make. It strengthens health systems, supports economic resilience and protects future generations. Yet progress on maternal, newborn, child and adolescent health remains insufficient and has slowed down. Meanwhile declining ODA, constrained fiscal space, conflict, climate shocks and anti-rights pressure are increasing risks to essential services.
Read the full casewomen died during or following pregnancy and childbirth in 2020, most from preventable causes.
children died before age five in 2022.
babies were stillborn in 2021.
return for every US$ 1 invested in key RMNCH interventions in high-burden countries.
What the campaign aims to achieve
Improve domestic resource mobilization for WCAH
Support evidence-based advocacy in CAAP countries by end-2027, helping partners influence budget decisions, strengthen accountability and secure more sustainable financing for women's, children's and adolescents' health.
- Country-level domestic resource mobilization campaigns
- Budget advocacy and expenditure tracking
- Parliamentary and media engagement
- Evidence-based financing narratives
- CAAP-aligned advocacy priorities
Protect and improve development assistance for WCAH
Mobilize high-level advocacy to ensure women's, children's and adolescents' health and SRHR remain central in donor commitments, debt discussions, Global Fund processes, World Bank financing and global health architecture reform.
- Donor engagement
- Debt and fiscal space advocacy
- Global Fund and World Bank entry points
- Global Leaders Network champion interventions
- Global and regional policy moments
Partner with PMNCH to advance financing for women, children and adolescents
Use campaign tools, share evidence, engage decision-makers and amplify country voices.
Engage with the campaign
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