Hello, I'm Lisa Mandell from the International Lactation Consultant Association.

Greetings, all. John Borrazzo, Child Health Director, MOMENTUM Country and Global Leadership project and Lead Advisor, Child Health, Save the Children, U.S.

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Hello, I'm Jeanne Rideout, Senior Technical Advisor at USAID/W.

Hello to everyone+ Michael Galatsch Zürich University of applied science / Global Health Nusing / Projects in Madagaskar, Malawi Ruanda Uganda

Hello to everyone, I'm Goodluck Tesha, Technical Advisor PMI Impact Malaria, Tanzania.

Find resources from these past discussions here: https://www.childhealthtaskforce.org/subgroups/expansion

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Olga Adjoa AGBODJAN-PRINCE from WHO, Multi Country Assignment Team based in Gabon. I am in charge of RMNCAH, supporting Gabon, Cameroon, Chad and Equatorial Guinea

I am Caleb El-Bumba from Reliable Aid in Agriculture and Nutrition (RAAIN) _Nigeria

Eyob Assegid, WHO-ETHIOPIA Ethi co

Lauren Cohee, Assistant Professor, Pediatric Infectious Disease Specialist, University of Maryland, Center for Vaccine Development and Global Health - focuses on malaria and school health.

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Prudence Hamade Senior Technical Advisor Malaria Consortium/MC Global Health

How come there was no data included from Asia /( S Asia and SE Asia

Hi everyone! Meg McLaughlin, THINKMD Research and Impact Lead

One of the strongest influences on a child’s chances of survival to 5 is the level of Mom’s education (children born to mothers with 12 years of education are more than 30% less likely to die before age 5, IHME 2021). Why don’t we see more maternal education/child health partnerships?

Hello everyone! NGABONZIMA Anaclet, Child Health Lead, Momentum Integrated Health Resilience

The "project coordination" theme seems very process heavy with potentially high transaction costs. Can't we simplify "multisectoral" action a bit to ensure (as at least a first step) that other sectors have systematic ways to prioritize investments that maximize impacts on child health (or, really, even maternal and child health more broadly)? Examples could be school programs including sanitation or nutrition components, or road projects capturing improved careseeking and emergency medical transport impacts as part of criteria for determining priorities. To Leith's point, there could also be more explicit capture of child health impacts of other sectoral investments, to help Ministries of Finance and other resource-deciding institutions decide that these are indeed investments in future human capital.

@John; yes coordination and the associated transaction cost is one hindrance to multisectoral programming as often conceived. Part of the question is what constitutes multisectoral programming? Do you see a spectrum from sectoral programs/interventions with impacts on health versus pooled activities and/or teams and/or cofounding and/or monitoring and attribution?

Thanks for sharing wonderful perspectives. Enlightening for many of us in the Civil Society trying to work with multiple stakeholders to improve ECCD . 👏

How does this effort relate to FHI 360’s big push on what they called “integrated development” funded by BMGF about 8 years ago. They generated a lot of materials https://www.fhi360.org/resource/integrated-development-tools

I agree with @John. Education + now ICT

Thanks for sharing all this important informations .. Looking Forward to june 8th!

Sorry I joined quite late but looking forward to the next session. Will try to catch up on the recording. Gathering from discussion the subject relates to my experiences.

Need to prioritize the multi-sectoral partnerships that have the greatest impact on child survival using best peer-reviewed studies and models. You have to demonstrate that 1 + 1 = 3. This is not going to be true for most areas - just a few.

Thanks

thank you all looking forward to the next meeting

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