Call for Nominations for PMNCH Board Membership: Lead Efforts for Women, Adolescents, and Children’s Health
Global well being funding is beneath pressure, humanitarian crises are escalating, and progress in girls’s, adolescents’, and youngsters’s well being (WCAH) is stalling. Sexual and reproductive well being and rights are additionally going through important threats, compounded by a shifting donor panorama, declining multilateral commitments, and restrictions on civic house.
The Partnership for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health (PMNCH) serves as a cornerstone in international well being advocacy, with a concentrate on advancing the well being and well-being of ladies, youngsters, and adolescents (WCAH).
PMNCH performs a significant function as a multi-stakeholder platform, driving modern collaboration and motion for girls’s, adolescents’ and youngsters’s well being. To strengthen its affect, PMNCH seeks daring and dedicated leaders to affix its governing Board and assist steer the group towards efficient advocacy and motion.
About the PMNCH Board
Following an unbiased governance evaluate in 2024, PMNCH launched reforms to reinforce effectivity, together with the alternative of the earlier Board with a extra streamlined governing physique and the merging of ten constituencies into six.
Post-Reform PMNCH Constituencies
PMNCH Board members are primarily drawn from the next six constituencies:
- Governments and Intergovernmental Organizations (GIG) – Up to three Board members
- United Nations Agencies and Global Financing Mechanisms (UGF) – Up to 2 Board members
- Health Care Professionals Associations and Academic Research & Training Institutes (HCAR) – Up to 2 Board members
- Adolescents and Youth (AY) – Up to 2 Board members
- Private Sector and Private Foundations (PSPF) – Up to 2 Board members
- Non-Governmental Organizations (NGO) – Up to 2 Board members
In whole, a most of 13 of the Board’s 17 members shall be chosen from these constituencies, with every anticipated to behave as a convenor or co-convenor for their respective group.
Additionally, the Board Chair is a member of the Board and has the authority to nominate two unbiased Board members. The World Health Organization (WHO), because the Host Agency, holds an ex-officio Board seat with full voting rights.
Board Member Terms and Responsibilities
Board members (besides WHO’s appointee) serve for a most three-year time period, renewable as soon as. However, to make sure a balanced transition, the preliminary appointments could have staggered phrases over the subsequent six years.
Eligibility and Application Process
Who Can Apply?
Nominations are open solely to organizations which can be members of PMNCH. Member organizations ought to nominate candidates whose expertise aligns with the Board’s objectives and expectations outlined within the Terms of Reference.
How to Apply
To apply, evaluate the next paperwork:
Submit your nomination by Midnight CET on 7 February 2025.
For inquiries, contact PMNCH Governance Officer, Dina El Husseiny at elhusseinyd@who.int or go to the call for nominations
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