An update on World Vision’s commitments to the UN Secretary-General’s Global Strategy for Women’s and Children’s Health ‘EVERY WOMAN EVERY CHILD ’

World Vision’s strategic commitments to Every Woman Every Child

the six strategic commitments that World Vision has made to Every Woman Every Child (eWec) ensure a combined and compound investment of resources to address maternal and child morbidity (including malnutrition) and mortality.

1. Strategically align all World Vision Health; Nutrition; HIV; and Water, Sanitation and Hygiene investment to contribute towards the UN Secretary-General’s Global Strategy for Women’s and Children’s Health

World Vision’s mission to give all children the same opportunity for life ‘in all its fullness’ compels the organisation to focus on the health and nutritional status of children as a priority. Connecting this mission with the Global Strategy has gathered together many technical branches of the organisation and enabled expertise to be pooled towards common goals. Strategies for programme design begin with a Theory of Change, describing the ideal shifts and outcomes from household-level change through to national level.

In 2013, World Vision began to implement an operational planning process known as the ‘Technical Approach’. This is facilitating a scale up of best practice and evidence-based interventions across WV’s programmes. Benefits of the Technical Approach planning process include an increased emphasis on external partnerships, multi-sector integration and advocacy. It is anticipated that the process will lead to increased alignment with context-specific priority actions to improve women’s and children’s health as well as an improved ability to report on progress against prioritised indicators, improved technical support and implementation.

There are currently 63 World Vision national offices working in health, nutrition, HIV and water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH).