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The SPA Survey is a health facility assessment that provides a comprehensive overview of a country’s health service delivery.  SPA surveys collect information on the overall availability of different facility-based health services in a country and their readiness to provide those services and also include an inventory survey.  The SPA questionnaires were last updated in 2012. The SPA indicators and questionnaires are currently being revised to incorporate a greater focus on quality of care and are expected to be available by the end of 2021.

This survey can be used as a tool to search a Publication Catalog for any references and resources in different topic areas, type of publication, country, keywords, language, published from, and publication ID.

The EPMM MMR targets include an average global target and supplemental national MMR reductions targets. SDG 3.1 is based on the EPMM average global target. The EPMM targets and strategies are grounded in a human rights approach to maternal and newborn health, and focus on eliminating significant inequities that lead to disparities in access, quality and outcomes of care within and between countries. Concrete political commitments and financial investments by country governments and development partners are necessary to meet the targets and carry out the strategies for EPMM.

In 2015, the World Health Organization launched Mother and Newborn Information for Tracking Outcomes and Results (MoNITOR), a technical advisory group to WHO. The vision of MoNITOR is to facilitate measurement, align initiatives, and provide technical guidance to WHO. MoNITOR will support WHO to ensure harmonized guidance, messages, and tools so that countries can collect useful data to track progress toward achieving the Sustainable Development Goals. MoNITOR is supported by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

This report presents the indicator and monitoring framework for the Global Strategy for Women’s, Children’s and Adolescents’ Health, (2016-2030) focusing on its Survive, Thrive and Transform objectives and 17 targets. The report details the selection process for the indicators and implications for monitoring, measurement, investments and reporting.

A common monitoring framework for ending preventable maternal mortality was developed in two phases based on a series of multi-stakeholder consultations. Phase I focused on indicators related to the proximal causes of maternal mortality and includes 12 recommended indicators and four priority areas for further indicator development and testing.

This report, published by the United Nations (UN) Maternal Mortality Estimation Inter-Agency Group (MMEIG), presents internationally comparable global, regional and country-level estimates and trends for maternal mortality between 2000 and 2017. Countries and territories included in the analyses are WHO Member States with populations over 100 000, plus two territories (Puerto Rico, and the West Bank and Gaza Strip). The results described in this report include the first available estimates for maternal mortality in the SDG reporting period; but since two years (2016 and 2017) is not sufficient to show trends, estimates have been developed and presented covering the period 2000 to 2017.

Countdown to 2030 aims to provide the best and most recent scientific evidence on country-level progress towards the achievement of universal health coverage for reproductive, maternal, neonatal, child and adolescent health and nutrition (RMNCAH&N). Countdown also aims to improve the use of data to accelerate attention, accountability, and action for scaling up equitable coverage of priority RMNCH&N interventions. Countdown adds value by forging an evidence-based consensus on priority interventions and associated coverage indicators; producing country profiles ; analyzing coverage trends, equity patterns and key drivers of coverage; developing and validating new and innovative methods for collecting data on RMNCAH&N; and linking science and action along the continuum of care.

The third Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) is to “Ensure Healthy Lives and promote wellbeing for all at all ages.” SDG 3 includes multiple health-related targets including a maternal health (3.2) and a newborn health (3.2) target summarized below.

3.2 By 2030, end preventable deaths of newborns and children under 5 years of age, with all countries aiming to reduce neonatal mortality to at least as low as 12 per 1000 live births and under-5 mortality to at least as low as 25 per 1000 live births.

The objective of this guide is to help countries monitor and analyse the impact of COVID-19 on essential health services to ultimately inform planning and decision-making. It provides practical recommendations on how to use key performance indicators to analyse changes in access to and delivery of essential health services within the context of the COVID-19 pandemic; how to visualize and interpret these data; and how to use the findings to guide modifications for safe delivery of services and transitioning towards restoration and recovery. The guide focuses on existing indicators and data that are captured in routine reporting systems (sometimes referred to as health management information systems [HMIS]) and how they could be used by national and subnational authorities to understand specific contexts, challenges and bottlenecks.

The Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) Target 3.1 calls for a reduction in the global maternal mortality ratio (MMR) to less than 70 per 100 000 by 2030; and no country should have an MMR greater than 140 per 100 000. The Maternal Mortality on-line progress calculator can be used to compute the MMR reduction and annual rate of reduction for an individual country based on the SDG global and country MMR targets.

From the CDC, this website offers clear guidance on MNCH surveillance for COVID-19 including pregnancy surveillance, birth surveillance, postpartum/postnatal surveillance, and mortality surveillance (in both community and facility settings).