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To advance Every Woman Every Child, a global movement launched by the United Nations Secretary-General, UNICEF and other United Nations agencies invite partners from the public and private sectors, civil society and relevant global alliances to unite around a clear and compelling goal: Ending preventable child deaths. Evidence shows that it is possible to decrease under-five mortality rates in developing countries to levels approaching those in wealthier countries. By pledging support for A Promise Renewed, we can accelerate declines in child and maternal mortality, enabling more countries to achieve Millennium Development Goals 4 and 5 by 2015 and to sustain their progress well into the future.
The global community has the opportunity to end preventable child deaths within one generation. This is an ambitious goal, but with the knowledge, technical expertise and innovative tools available today, it can be achieved.
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By pledging to support the goals of Committing to Child Survival: A Promise Renewed, partners vow to redouble efforts to achieve Millennium Development Goals 4 and 5 by 2015, to reduce under-five mortality in all countries to 20 or fewer under-five deaths per 1,000 live births by 2035, and to focus greater effort on reaching the most disadvantaged and hardest-to-reach children in every country.
Evidence-based country plans: Governments will lead the effort to sharpen country action plans by setting and monitoring five-year milestones for maternal, newborn and child survival. Development partners will support country action plans, employing existing initiatives for maternal and child survival with an emphasis on national priorities. Transparency and mutual accountability: Governments and partners will work together to report progress and to promote accountability for the global commitments made on behalf of children. Using a standardized monitoring template, UNICEF and partners will collect and disseminate data on each countrys progress. Based on the indicators developed by the United Nations Commission on Information and Accountability for Womens and Childrens Health, the global template is designed to be adapted by countries to address their own priorities. Each year, UNICEF and partners will release global progress reports to stimulate public dialogue and sustain the political commitment to child survival. Global communication and social mobilization: Governments and partners will mobilize broad-based social and political support for the goal of ending preventable child deaths. As part of this effort, the search for small-scale innovations that demonstrate strong potential for large-scale results will be intensified. Once identified, local innovations will be tested, made public, and taken to scale. By harnessing the power of mobile technology, civil society and the private sector can encourage private citizens, especially women and young people, to participate in the search for innovative approaches to maternal and child survival. UNICEF will host a small secretariat to support the efforts undertaken in support of A Promise Renewed.
Renewing the Promise Actual number of child deaths, 1990 and 2010 Projected number of child deaths if all countries sustain the current annual rate of decline in under-five mortality
12
7.6
million
under-five deaths at the annual rate of decline 20002010
4.5
million
under-five deaths at an accelerated rate of decline
1990
1995
2000
2005
2010
2015
2020
2025
2030
2035
Source: UNICEF analysis of United Nations Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation data, <www.childmortality.org>.