Reaching every newborn national 2020 milestones progress report 2018
Overview
Achieving the targets set out in the Sustainable Development Goals and the UN Secretary-General’s Global Strategy for Women’s Children’s and Adolescent Health (2016-2030) is underpinned by achieving the Every Newborn milestones by 2020. For the Seventy-first World Health Assembly in 2018, progress on the Every Newborn resolution is included under reporting on the Global Strategy.
To complement that report, the present document provides a detailed look at progress in country leadership and action toward the Every Newborn milestones. It presents a compilation of data collected through use of the Every Newborn Tracking Tool in 2017, adopted by 75 countries, it highlights examples of specific country activity for each national milestone as well as relevant progress towards global milestones.