Commitment title:

Reduce Childhood Mortality

Commitment description:

We commit to reduce under-five mortality rate to below 25 deaths per 1,000 live births, infant mortality rate to 18 per 1,000 live births and neonatal mortality rate to below 12 per 1000 live births by 2030 particularly in the rural and far to reach areas of the country by expanding and strengthening the Community Health Planning System and providing logistics and incentives to community health workers in far to reach areas.

Mode of engagement:
  • Programmatic action
    Childhood Mortality
Submitted by
Ghana
Thematic area
Achieve universal access to sexual and reproductive health as a part of universal health coverage (UHC)
Commitment category

(3) Zero preventable maternal deaths and maternal morbidities, such as obstetric fistulas, by, inter alia, integrating a comprehensive package of sexual and reproductive health interventions, including access to safe abortion to the full extent of the law, measures for preventing and avoiding unsafe abortions, and for the provision of post-abortion care, into national UHC strategies, policies and programmes, and to protect and ensure all individuals’ right to bodily integrity, autonomy and reproductive rights, and to provide access to essential services in support of these rights.