Table 10 Advocacy and Policy
Overarching Goal: Key actors allocate sufficient resources and support policies, programs, and actions at the global, regional, national, and community levels to ensure safe full-term pregnancies and healthy newborns | |||||
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Output | Post-Conference (by 2010) | Short-Term (by 2012) | Intermediate (by 2015) | Long-Term (beyond 2015) | Success Metrics |
A. Increase funding for research on the scope, causes, consequences, interventions, and scaling up of interventions for preterm birth and stillbirth | 1. Identify champions (recruit and mobilize) 2. Develop fact sheet that presents need, gap and benefits of research on PTB/ SB and link to MDGs4&5 (RMNCH) | 3. Mobilizing professional organizations 4. Educating decision makers 5. Identify and prioritize funding targets among national governments, public-private partnerships, international nonprofit agencies and large research funding donors |  |  | • Number of research projects on PTB and SB • Funds being expended on PTB and SB • Completed research projects • Statements from donor entitites (from H8, for example) that mention PTB/SB as an issue that needs attention • Number of professional associations at a global and national level that call for increased research funding |
B. Increase awareness of the magnitude, impact, and opportunities to reduce and prevent preterm birth and stillbirth, as they relate to the accomplishments of the MDGs | 1. Develop key messages, fact sheets and success stories 2. Educate MNCH community internally 3. Create an advocacy/ communications network | 4. Develop in-country community outreach, including men and women, and community influences 5. Outreach to policymakers through regional and global forums and partnerships | 6. Create a global awareness campaign |  | • Number of people who publicly speak about personal experiences with PTB and SB • Media coverage (media as a proxy) • Surveys, polls • DHS incorporates guestions on PTB/ SB • Incorporation of PTB/SB messages into materials of MNCH agencies, initiatives, partnerships • Number of policymaker statements that include PTB and SB messages |
C. Build financial and political support for scaling up a core set of evidence-based, effective interventions for preventing/ managing PTB and SB, and integrate into national policies and guidelines | 1. Identify set of universal priorities based on existing information | 2. Recruit and mobilize champions 3. Present and disseminate global reports and country studies on PTB and SB 4. Define and promote policy proposals 5. Focus event |  |  | • Number of regional/national plans that incorporate PT and SB with funds allocated • Number of partnerships that incorporate PTB and SB • Dissemination of credible, authorized studies to decisionmakers • Number of champions and supporters mobilized • Funding allocations for MNCH by donor countries |