Acknowledgements
On behalf of Every Woman Every Child, a multistakeholder Strategy and Coordination Group facilitated by the Executive Office of the United Nations Secretary-General oversaw production of this Operational Framework, under the guidance of Amina J. Mohammed, United Nations Secretary-General’s Special Adviser on Post-2015 Development Planning, and David Nabarro, United Nations Secretary-General’s Special Adviser on the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and Climate Change.
The Government of India, Partners in Population and Development, and the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF, on behalf of the H6 – formerly the H4+ Partnership), coordinated the content development and writing of the Operational Framework with several institutions and individual experts convened respectively by C.K.Mishra, Additional Secretary; Joe Thomas, Executive Director; and Geeta Rao Gupta, Deputy Executive Director. Kumanan Rasanathan, Senior Health Specialist, UNICEF acted as the focal point for the Writing Group, with support from Alyssa Sharkey.
Every Woman Every Child extends grateful appreciation to the following members of the Strategy and Coordination Group and the Operational Framework Writing Group who reviewed and commented on drafts: Becton, Dickinson and Company: Gary Cohen; Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation: Mark Suzman; CHESTRAD: Lola Dare; China People’s Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries: Yuan Xie; Executive Office of the United Nations Secretary-General: Nana Taona Kuo, Hannah Sarah F. Dini; Espolea, A.C.: Cecilia García Ruiz; Family Planning 2020: Beth Schlachter; Government of Canada, Department of Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development: Diane Jacovella, Jo-ann Purcell, Christopher Armstrong; Government of China, National Health and Family Planning Commission: Minghui Ren; Government of India, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare: Anshu Mohan; Government of Norway, Ministry Of Foreign Affairs: Tore Godal; Government of Norway, Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation: Helga Fogstad, Austen Davis; Government of Tanzania, Ministry of Health and Social Welfare: Donan Mbando, Neema Rusibamayila; Government of the United Kingdom, Department for International Development: Nick Dyer, Will Niblett, Gillian Mann; Government of the United States of America, United States Agency for International Development: Ariel Pablos-Méndez, Katherine Taylor, John Borrazzo, Hareya Fassil; Innovation Working Group: Peter Singer; Joint United Nations Programme on HIV and AIDS (UNAIDS): Luiz Antônio Mateus Loures, Deborah von Zinkernagel; Merck for Mothers: Naveen Rao; Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR): Kate Gilmore, Jyoti Sanghera, Lynn Gentile; Partnership for Maternal, Newborn & Child Health: Robin Gorna, Andres de Francisco, Kadidiatou Toure, Rachel Hinton; RMNCH Strategy and Coordination Team: Pascal Bijleveld; United Nations Secretary-General’s Special Envoy for Financing the Health Millennium Development Goals and for Malaria: Raymond Chambers, Alan Court, Mark Grabowsky, Suprotik Basu; Her Royal Highness Princess Sarah Zeid; Save the Children: Jasmine Whitbread, Francesco Aureli, Patrick Watt; UNICEF: Ted Chaiban, Nina Schwalbe, John Quinley, Kim Dickson, Paul Pronyk, Kate Rogers, Katherine Holland, Guy Taylor, Jumana Haj-Ahmad, Pia Britto, Heather Papowitz; United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN Women): Yannick Glemarec, Nazneen Damji; United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA): Laura Londén, Laura Laski, Jacqueline Mahon; United Nations Foundation: Kathy Calvin, Susan Myers, Anita Sharma, Natalie Africa; World Bank: Timothy Evans, Rama Lakshminarayanan, Mickey Chopra, Toby Kasper; World Vision International: Kevin J. Jenkins, Kate Eardley, Martha Newsome; World Health Organization: Flavia Bustreo, Anthony Costello, Ties Boerma, Anshu Banerjee, Bernadette Daelmans, Rajat Khosla, Shyama Kuruvilla, Mikael Ostergren, Blerta Maliqi, Lale Say, Frederik Kristensen, Eugenio Villar Montesinos. Thanks are also extended to those who provided case studies, who are credited in the main text of the Operational Framework.
Every Woman Every Child also gratefully acknowledges all the organizations and individuals who provided written comments and participated in consultations that contributed to the Operational Framework. A full description of the consultation process is provided in the Introduction of this document.
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