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Scaling up the Maternal, Newborn and Child Health Programme in the Pacific.

    Description
    Description
    The main goal is to contribute to the improvement of the health and nutrition status of women and children in the Pacific in order to support the attainment of the national, regional and global targets. The programme will continue to contribute to accelerated reduction of neonatal, infant and under-five child mortality; improved maternal health with equity; It will address major killers of children (neonatal conditions, pneumonia, diarrhea and malnutrition) and risks to maternal health through identification of supply bottlenecks and advocacy and support for their removal.
    Implementation of the Project/Activity

    National outcomes will anchor approaches through alignment under the Joint UN Action Plan with Pacific island country priorities, systems and practices to help ensure government-led and government-owned processes

    Capacity

    Capacity development through systemic and iterative processes to strengthen capacity of national stakeholders to plan, coordinate, implement, monitor and evaluate, and systematically remove programme and management bottlenecks. This will include: key government officials, health personnel (e.g. public health nurses, nurses aids, village health workers), community leaders, NGOs, civil society organizations, faith-based organizations, etc.Procurement and distribution of equipment such as cold chain equipment, vaccines, nutrition supplies (e.g. Vitamin A and de-worming tablets).

    Governed

    Delivery approaches across all Programme areas will help ensure government leadership; working in partnerships; and high quality data linked to policy development and communications.

    Partners
    New Zealand - Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, UNICEF

    Goal 2

    End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture

    Goal 2

    2.1

    By 2030, end hunger and ensure access by all people, in particular the poor and people in vulnerable situations, including infants, to safe, nutritious and sufficient food all year round

    2.1.1

    Prevalence of undernourishment

    2.1.2

    Prevalence of moderate or severe food insecurity in the population, based on the Food Insecurity Experience Scale (FIES)

    2.2

    By 2030, end all forms of malnutrition, including achieving, by 2025, the internationally agreed targets on stunting and wasting in children under 5 years of age, and address the nutritional needs of adolescent girls, pregnant and lactating women and older persons

    2.2.1

    Prevalence of stunting (height for age <-2 standard deviation from the median of the World Health Organization (WHO) Child Growth Standards) among children under 5 years of age

    2.2.2

    Prevalence of malnutrition (weight for height >+2 or <-2 standard deviation from the median of the WHO Child Growth Standards) among children under 5 years of age, by type (wasting and overweight)

    2.2.3

    Prevalence of anaemia in women aged 15 to 49 years, by pregnancy status (percentage)

    2.3

    By 2030, double the agricultural productivity and incomes of small-scale food producers, in particular women, indigenous peoples, family farmers, pastoralists and fishers, including through secure and equal access to land, other productive resources and inputs, knowledge, financial services, markets and opportunities for value addition and non-farm employment
    2.3.1

    Volume of production per labour unit by classes of farming/pastoral/forestry enterprise size

    2.3.2

    Average income of small-scale food producers, by sex and indigenous status

    2.4

    By 2030, ensure sustainable food production systems and implement resilient agricultural practices that increase productivity and production, that help maintain ecosystems, that strengthen capacity for adaptation to climate change, extreme weather, drought, flooding and other disasters and that progressively improve land and soil quality

    2.4.1

    Proportion of agricultural area under productive and sustainable agriculture

    2.5

    By 2020, maintain the genetic diversity of seeds, cultivated plants and farmed and domesticated animals and their related wild species, including through soundly managed and diversified seed and plant banks at the national, regional and international levels, and promote access to and fair and equitable sharing of benefits arising from the utilization of genetic resources and associated traditional knowledge, as internationally agreed

    2.5.1

    Number of (a) plant and (b) animal genetic resources for food and agriculture secured in either medium- or long-term conservation facilities

    2.5.2

    Proportion of local breeds classified as being at risk of extinction

    2.a

    Increase investment, including through enhanced international cooperation, in rural infrastructure, agricultural research and extension services, technology development and plant and livestock gene banks in order to enhance agricultural productive capacity in developing countries, in particular least developed countries
    2.a.1

    The agriculture orientation index for government expenditures

    2.a.2

    Total official flows (official development assistance plus other official flows) to the agriculture sector

    2.b

    Correct and prevent trade restrictions and distortions in world agricultural markets, including through the parallel elimination of all forms of agricultural export subsidies and all export measures with equivalent effect, in accordance with the mandate of the Doha Development Round

    2.b.1

    Agricultural export subsidies

    2.c

    Adopt measures to ensure the proper functioning of food commodity markets and their derivatives and facilitate timely access to market information, including on food reserves, in order to help limit extreme food price volatility

    2.c.1

    Indicator of food price anomalies

    . By 2017, 260,000 children under-five in 14 PICs are free from polio, measles and hepatitis B infection.
    By 2017, malnutrition especially stunting, will be prevented and reduced in children under 2yrs in at least 3 PICs
    By 2017, all health facilities in five (5) selected PICs have enhanced pregnancy outcomes and reduce maternal and newborn illness and deaths.
    By 2017, 120,000 children under five (80%) in seven (7) PICs receive quality of clinical service for pneumonia (proper antibiotic) and diarrhea (new ORS and zinc tablet).
    Financing (in USD)
    42%
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    Scaling up the Maternal, Newborn and Child Health Programme in the Pacific.
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    Action Network
    Small Island Developing States
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    Timeline
    31 December 2017 (date of completion)
    Entity
    UNICEF
    SDGs
    Region
    1. Asia and Pacific
    Countries
    New Zealand
    New Zealand
    Contact Information

    Karen Allen , UNICEF Pacific Multi -Country Office Representative