SAVING CHILDREN’S LIVES EVERY ONE SAVING CHILDREN’S LIVES EVERY ONE
Jan 11, 2016
SAVING CHILDREN’S LIVES
EVERY ONE
SAVING CHILDREN’S LIVES
EVERY ONE
ARTICLE 6: THE CONVENTION OF THE RIGHTS OF THE CHILD
… EVERY CHILD HAS THE INHERENT RIGHT TO LIFE
“There is no keener revelation of a society’s soul than the way it treats its children”Nelson Mandela
“… We are called to act by o8ur conscience but also by our common interest, because when a child dies of a preventable disease in Accra. That diminishes us everywhere”Barrack Obama
The Issues
MILLIONS OF CHILDREN UNDER 5 ARE DYING
2 Million die on their very first day of life
3 Million die in their first week
4 Million die in their first month
8.8 Million die every year
97% IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES
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Concentration in South Asiaand Sub-Saharan Africa
60% IN TEN COUNTRIESCountry U5MR U5 Deaths
1. INDIA 72 1,953,000
2. NIGERIA 189 1,126,000
3. DRC 161 502,000
4. PAKISTAN 90 400,000
5. CHINA 22 382,000
6. ETHIOPIA 119 381,000
7. AFGHANISTAN 257 338,000
8. BANGLADESH 61 244,000
9. UGANDA 130 188,000
10. ANGOLA 158 128,000
Total: 5,642,000
10 countries account for 61% of the world’s nearly 9 million annual under-5 deaths
The Causes
UNDERLYING CAUSES
90% OF DEATHS ARE PREVENTABLE
Source: 1) Who, World Heath Report 2005 2) For under-nutrition: Black et al, Lancet 2009
35% of deaths are due to the presence of under-nutrition
The Solutions
The Solutions
THE VALUE OF EVERY CHILD
THE POWER OF COLLECTIVE ACTION
OUR DETERMINATION TO SUCCEED
LOW COST SOLUTIONS EXIST
Neonatal causes: Community health workers to attend home deliveries
Pneumonia: Antibiotics (less than $0.90)
Diarrhea: Oral rehydration salts ($0.42)
Malaria: Mosquito net ($10), medicines to treat malaria cost ($0.60)
Malnutrition: Exclusive breastfeeding (free), Vitamin A to boost the immune system (4 cents per year).
KEY MESSAGES
Which of the 9 million children
who die each year has the right
to survive? EVERY ONE.
Which of us has a part to play in
saving these lives? EVERY ONE.
OUR VISION
Our vision is that within
five years no child under
the age of five dies from
Preventable causes and
public attitudes will not
tolerate a return to high
levels of child deaths.
OUR GOAL
Our goal is that MGG4 is
achieved. This means that
we need to ensure that the
under 5 child mortality rate is
halved between 2010 and
2015. By 2015, that would
mean 5 million children’s lives
will be saved each year.
THEORY OF CHANGE
• 1. Coverage: Increased coverage of high-impact maternal, newborn and child health and nutrition services and practices. increasing the availability, access and accessibility and increasing family’s knowledge of and demand for quality healthcare
• II. Accountability: Strengthened and more accountable government systems to sustain the increased coverage, and to ensure the poorest and most marginalized are reached
• III. Policy Environment: Policies and resources that address the intermediate causes of child mortality, such as under nutrition, lack of clean water, maternal illiteracy, limited access to family planning; and the underlying causes such as poverty, inequality and discrimination
Millennium Development Goal 4 is achieved.
Programmes
Income
Political and policy change
Popular mobilisation
ACHIEVING OUR AMBITION
PARTNERSHIPSWe cannot do this alone. To magnify our voice and
impact we will need to work with others.
At global and local levels we will strengthen existing partnerships
and build new ones with many types of organisation:
• Professional organisations • Youth organizations • Corporations • Donor and developing country governments• INGOs and Multilaterals• Foundations• Media • Local implementing partners
OUR CAMPAIGN JOURNEYPhase 1 (2009-2010): Building the movement• Draw attention to the funding commitments of donor countries and
multilaterals• Focus on the plans and resources in those countries where 60% of the
9 million children are dying• Build partnerships
Phase 2 (2011-2012): Activate support• Increase pressure to secure the $36bn additional annual commitment
to achieve MDG4• Continue advocacy for developing countries to establish and
appropriately fund credible plans to reduce child mortality.• Generate mass awareness to move the issue into the mainstream
public debate
Phase 3 (2013-2015): Maintain momentum• Hold those to their commitments through campaigns and advocacy• Reinforce success and scale-up programs
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• Sa’ada is two years old. Last year the rains failed and her mother, Mulu,
couldn’t get enough food to keep Sa’ada healthy. She became weak and ill, but
thanks to Save the Children’s emergency feeding programme
she is fit and healthy again.
Reality in Ethiopia
One in eight children dies before their 5th birthday
96% of all pregnant women in Ethiopia give birth at home without any professional care
1 doctor per 33,000 people, most in urban centres, while 85% of the population lives in rural areas
Mortality rate: 119/1,000 live births (30% higher in rural areas)
Between 2000 and 2005, Ethiopia’s average reduction in child mortality was 30% • Richest quintile: 37% reduction• Poorest quintile: 18% reduction