Progress on the Global Strategy for Women's, Children's and Adolescents' Health

This annual report from Every Woman Every Child provides a progress update on the Global Strategy for Women’s, Children’s and Adolescents’ Health (EWEC Global Strategy), a multinational, multi-sectoral movement spearheaded by the United Nations in 2010 and updated in 2015. This year’s report celebrates the achievements of the EWEC movement over the past ten years and offers an overview of the current global state of women’s, children’s and adolescents’ health and wellbeing. The report highlights where progress is being made and is still lagging and flags policy, investment, and implementation priorities in 2022 and beyond. It is accompanied by a four-page brief that summarizes the main messages of the report. This year’s edition specifically focuses on the uneven progress on human rights, sexual and reproductive rights, and achieving equity for women and children entering the third year of the COVID-19 pandemic. The pandemic has exacerbated inequities, created new ones, and disproportionately affected women and children—potentially regressing decades of hard-earned progress.

The EWEC Global Strategy was created to promote the survival, health, and well-being of women, children, and adolescents and to assist countries in achieving the related Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) through transformative change. The movement’s key priorities continue to be reducing gender-based inequity, strengthening fragile health systems, and developing data-driven resources to end preventable deaths, illnesses, and injuries by 2030. As the EWEC Global Strategy enters its second decade, it urges continued investment in solutions for these issues.