Adopting a child-centred approach: Intergration for maximising impact on child health

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This paper builds on recent developments in integrated approaches to child health programming. It aims to highlight innovative examples and provide policy recommendations for national governments and development partners.

Recommendations

  • promote good child health outcomes by supporting national systems to deliver integrated child health programmes at all levels.
  • promote country-led rather than donor-driven strategies to strengthen ownership and implement child health programmes that focus on local needs and priorities.
  • integrate child health approaches and interventions to tackle both morbidity and mortality
  • support the evaluation and documentation of integrated approaches to improve effectiveness, efficiency and results.
  • Create and support frameworks and aid structures that encourage and incentivise integrated approaches to child health.
  • Ensure the inclusion of a health goal in the post-2015 framework that promotes cross-sectoral collaboration to achieve child health targets, recognising that good health is a universal human right to which everyone is entitled.