H6 Partnership for Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn, Child and Adolescent Health

The H6 partnership supported countries in their efforts to ensure that all women, children, and adolescents enjoy their rights to the highest attainable standards of health and well-being. It focused on countries with high burdens of maternal, newborn and child mortality.

Drawing on the combined strengths of six international organizations – UNFPA, UNICEF, UN Women, WHO, UNAIDS and the World Bank – H6 worked to advance the Sustainable Development Goals and the UN Secretary-General’s Every Woman Every Child strategy by improving sexual, reproductive, maternal, neonatal, child and adolescent health.

H6 served to mobilize technical expertise, investment, advocacy, and policy engagement to strengthen countries’ health systems and ensure universal access to an integrated package of essential health services, with a focus on the most vulnerable women and children.

From 2016 onwards, the partnership mobilized $99.76 million to provide catalytic and strategic support to national health systems to address the root causes of poor health outcomes in Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Cote d’Ivoire, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Zambia and Zimbabwe, along with global-level activities.

The partnership was launched in 2008 as H4+, later renamed H6 to reflect the full and equal engagement of all agencies.