All women, children and adolescents have the human right to the highest attainable standard of health—the Global Strategy is a roadmap for achieving that right. To build on the success of the previous Global Strategy (2010-2015) and the Every Woman Every Child movement, which acted as a platform to accelerate the health-related Millennium Development Goals, women, children and adolescents must be at the heart of the Sustainable Development Goals. The Global Strategy strives for a world in which every mother can enjoy a wanted and healthy pregnancy and childbirth, every child can survive beyond their fifth birthday, and every woman, child and adolescent can thrive to realize their full potential, resulting in enormous social, demographic and economic benefits.
The Global Strategy is intended to inspire political leaders and policy-makers to further accelerate their work to improve the health and well-being of women, children and adolescents. It is also intended as a guide to enable people and communities to drive change, claim their rights and hold leaders to account.
