tailieunhanh - Two Decades of Progress: USAID’S CHILD SURVIVAL AND MATERNAL HEALTH PROGRAM

In addition, other emergency preparedness measures such as capacity building for national disaster response teams (NDRT); standard operating procedures (SOP); volunteer management; and planning, monitoring, evaluation, and reporting (PMER) capacity, which are addressed in country development programmes, helped benefit the implementation of this DREF. While the NDRT was mobilized to carry out rapid assessments, and facilitate the training of trainers, the SOPs helped VNRC save time in procuring t- shirts, and soap and hasten the production of information, education and communication (IEC) materials. Volunteer management and PMER training for chapter and branch level of the five target provinces. | USAID FROM THE AMERICAN PEOPLE Two Decades of Progress USAID S CHILD SURVIVAL AND MATERNAL HEALTH PROGRAM PAT LANZA FIELD Launching the child survival revolution 1985 - left to right UNICEF Executive Director James P. Grant USAID Administrator M. Peter McPherson USAID Assistant Administrator for Science and Technology Nyles Brady. USAID s Child Survival and Maternal Health Program - Sustained Commitment Unprecedented Success Two decades have passed since the United States Agency for International Development USAID and the United Nations Children s Fund UNICEF with the support of the . Congress launched a child survival revolution aimed at reducing the number of deaths among young children in developing countries. At the time an estimated 15 million children under age 5 in the developing world died from common preventable diseases each year. Across the developing world more than one in 10 children did not survive to see their fifth birthday in some countries it was one in five. Recognizing the effects of this mortality on individuals families communities and countries Congress in 1985 increased its support for USAID to fight preventable childhood diseases. One year later the Agency introduced a child survival strategy - expanded in the late 1980s to include maternal health - that it would put in place in the following decades. USAID has since implemented and built upon this strategy focusing on High-impact child health interventions such as oral rehydration therapy ORT and immunization Results-oriented research to develop new interventions and strengthen programs Countries with high burdens of child mortality and malnutrition Partnerships with governments nongovernmental organizations NGOs and private sector partners Capacity building to enable countries communities and institutions to save the lives of women and children Since the inception of its child survival and maternal health program the United States has committed nearly 7 billion in more than 80 .