Table 5 EPMM Phase II Core Indicators Harmonized with Other Monitoring Efforts
Indicator | SDGs | GS | CD |
Presence of laws and regulations that guarantee women aged 15-49 access to sexual and reproductive health care, information, and education | ✓ | ✓ | |
Gender Parity Index (GPI) | ✓ | ||
Whether or not legal frameworks are in place to promote, enforce, and monitor equality and non-discrimination on the basis of sex | ✓ | ✓ | |
Presence of protocols/policies on combined care of mother and baby, immediate breastfeeding, and observations of care | |||
Maternity protection in accordance with ILO Convention 183 | ✓ | ||
International Code of Marketing of Breastmilk Substitutes | ✓ | ||
Costed implementation plan for maternal, newborn, and child health | ✓ | ||
Midwives are authorized to deliver basic emergency obstetric and newborn care | ✓ | ||
Legal status of abortion | ✓ | ✓ | |
Proportion of women aged 15-49 who make their own informed decisions regarding sexual relations, contraceptive use, and reproductive health care | ✓ | ✓ | |
Geographic distribution of facilities that provide basic and comprehensive emergency obstetric care (EmOC) | |||
Presence of a national set of indicators with targets and annual report to inform annual health sector reviews and other planning cycles | ✓ | ||
Maternal death review coverage | ✓ | ||
Percentage of total health expenditure spent on reproductive, maternal, newborn, and child health | ✓ | ||
Out-of-pocket expenditure as a percentage of total expenditure on health | ✓ | ✓ | |
Annual reviews are conducted of health spending from all financial sources, including spending on RMNCH, as part of broader health sector reviews | |||
Health worker density and distribution (per 1000 population) | ✓ | ✓ | |
Coverage of essential health services | |||
If fees exist for health services in the public sector, are women of reproductive age (15-49) exempt from user fees for [MH-related health] services | |||
Demand for family planning satisfied through modern methods of contraception | |||
Availability of functional emergency obstetric care (EmOC) facilities | |||
Density of midwives, by district (by births) | |||
Percentage of facilities that demonstrate readiness to deliver specific services: family planning, antenatal care, basic emergency obstetric care, and newborn care | |||
Civil registration coverage of cause of death (percentage) | ✓ | ||
Presence of a national policy/strategy to ensure engagement of civil society organization representatives in periodic review of national programs for maternal, newborn, child, and adolescent health (MNCAH) | ✓ | ||
Stratifiers: Equity | |||
Wealth | ✓ | ||
Area of residence: urban/rural | ✓ | ||
Area of residence: geographic region | ✓ | ||
Level of education: women’s education level | ✓ | ||
Age | ✓ | ||
Stratifier: Transparency | |||
Available in the public domain |