Countdown to 2030: Achievements and Impact

Countdown has a unique role to play in international and national efforts to improve women’s, children’s, and adolescents’ health. It seeks to provide clear and comprehensible data and analysis on key evidence-based interventions, to promote effective action, and to strengthen efforts to hold governments and development partners accountable for fulfilling their commitments to the Sustainable Development Goals (2016-2030) and the Global Strategy for Women’s, Children’s and Adolescents’ Health.

Countdown to 2030 was launched in September 2016, and its achievements to date include:

• Establishing Countdown regional network initiatives
  • Latin America and the Caribbean (supported by the Federal University of Pelotas in Brazil)
  • East and Southern Africa (supported by Africa Population Health Research Centre (APHRC) in Nairobi, Kenya)
  • West and Central Africa supported by West African Health Organization (WAHO) in Bobo-Dioulasso in Burkina Faso

• Contributing data and analyses to the WHO Global Strategy Readiness Report, the annual reports of the Independent Advisory Panel, UNFPA’s State of the World’s Population Report, and the Global Nutrition Report
• Identifying and tracking 60 indicators to measure the progress to attain the RMNCAH goals in the 2016 Global Strategy for Women’s Children’s and Adolescents’ Health
• Producing and disseminating the first Countdown to 2030 Report and accompanying country profiles and equity profiles for the 81 countries responsible for 90% of child deaths and 95% of maternal mortality, including newly launched interactive profiles
• Publishing articles in the scientific literature