Resources

Survive 5 Day supporter toolkit

To help mark Sunday 5th May as Survive 5 Day download the supporter toolkit with resources for promoting the day from social media tools, church resources and a host of other pieces to raise awareness and spark global conversation.

GAPPD advocacy pack

This advocacy toolkit is designed to assist civil society organisations (CSOs), nongovernmental organisations (NGOs), and other advocacy groups or individuals to advocate for the successful implementation of the recommendations of the Integrated Global Action Plan for the Prevention of Pneumonia and Diarrhoea (GAPPD) at the national, subnational, and community levels.

International Day of the Midwife 2013 resource pack

Sunday 5th May is the International Day of the Midwife, this year acvtivities on the day will focus on the theme "The World needs Midwives now more than ever." To support on the day download their new resource pack for ideas, tools and information to arrange a memorable event.

Within Reach - Ending preventable child deaths

Every year, 6.9 million children will die before their fifth birthday. The good news is that this can be changed. In this new report, World Vision argues that these children can be reached and highlights an often overlooked strategy that is key to keeping children healthy: engaging and empowering families and communities in taking control of their own health.

Download the executive summary:

English version. French version. Spanish version.

Download the full report.

Never Had A Chance: Why millions of children still die needlessly every year

In a new report, launched on World Pneumonia Day, World Vision says more than 4.4 million are killed each year by six of the most preventable causes, and the majority of these are happening in middle-income countries.

The Global Week of Action pack for Supporters

Be counted! Download the Global Week of Action pack to find out ways in which you can get involved in the activities running from 13th to 20th November. Inside you will find a host of resources including information, logos, poster designs, photostand ideas, case studies, media and lobbying tools and a wide range of Frequently Asked Questions.  Download, be counted and help children Surive 5!

The Nutrition Barometer: Gauging national response to undernutrition (Executive summary)

World Vision teams up with Save the Children to call on world leaders to take urgent action on promises to tackle undernutrition. World Vision, as part of its global Child Health Now Campaign, is calling for political promises to be urgently translated into action to avert the deaths of millions of undernourished children, 2.3 million of whom died in 2011 alone.

High-level assessment of World Vision's commitments to Every Woman Every Child

Earlier this week an independent assessment of World Vision’s commitments to the UN’s Every Woman Every Child strategy to reduce child mortality and improve maternal health was released. The review showed that the organisation was making positive progress towards fulfilling its commitments.

Community Prevention of Mother-to-Child Transmission of HIV (c-PMTCT)

For the first time, the elimination of mother-to-child transmission of HIV is considered a realistic public health goal and an important part of the campaign to achieve the United Nations Millennium Development Goals(MDGs) 4, 5 and 6. This document provides an overview of how World Vision can contribute to the elimination of mother-to-child transmission of HIV through community-based interventions.

Europe can make the difference

The solutions to undernutrition are known and the road map to implement them exists. Whether these solutions will be fully grasped depends in no small part upon strong leadership from the European Union (EU). World Vision calls on the EU to show leadership and take advantage of the current window of opportunity to scale up impact on nutrition and food security.

2011 Health Review

Like last year and this year, next year and many years after that, World Vision will work for child health. Explore this document to find out what we’re accomplishing.

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The Best Start - Saving children’s lives in their first thousand days

This report draws on positive experiences in World Vision programmes and beyond to demonstrate how positive nutrition outcomes for mothers and children can be delivered at the community level.

Innovating for Every Woman, Every Child

"Every Woman Every Child has catalyzed an ambitious but achievable set of commitments to improve the health of women and children around the world” — Robert Orr, Assistant Secretary-General for Policy Planning at the United Nations.

Child Health Now Report

“Child Health Now” is World Vision’s first global campaign focused on a single issue: reducing the preventable deaths of children under five.

Download the executive summary

Child Health 2010 Review

Why are we campaigning for Child Health Now? The Child Health 2010 Review explores why World Vision is so committed to the Child Health Now campaign.

Improving Global Health Governance

Technical briefing paper for the Child Health Now campaign.