Publication: Delivering the Millennium Development Goals to Reduce Maternal and Child Mortality: A Systematic Review of Impact Evaluation Evidence
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Date
2016-02
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2016-02
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Independent Evaluation Group
Abstract
Improved outcomes for women and children
- more education, lower fertility rates, higher nutritional
status, and lower incidence of illness, among other outcomes
- have broad individual, family, and societal benefits. For
nearly 15 years, the targets of the millennium development
goals (MDGs) have been a bellwether for progress,
particularly for maternal and child health (MCH) - a
two-thirds reduction in under-five mortality in MDG 4 and a
three-quarters reduction in the maternal mortality ratio in
MDG 5. This systematic review by the Independent Evaluation
Group (IEG) is a learning exercise that looks beyond World
Bank experience. It is intended to be used a reference for
practitioners in the Bank and elsewhere with an interest in
interventions that have demonstrated attributable
improvements in skilled birth attendance and reductions in
maternal and child mortality. This review also identifies
important gaps in the impact evaluation evidence for
interventions that may be effective in reducing maternal and
child mortality but whose impacts have not yet been tested
using robust impact evaluation methods. The systematic
review provides findings on what is known about the effects
of interventions on skilled birth attendance, maternal
mortality, neonatal mortality, infant mortality, and
under-five mortality, as well as the effect of skilled birth
attendance on these and other intermediate MCH outcomes.
Finally, the review highlights the main gaps in the body of
impact evaluation knowledge for maternal and child mortality.
Citation
“Independent Evaluation Group. 2016. Delivering the Millennium Development Goals to Reduce Maternal and Child Mortality; Delivering the Millennium Development Goals to Reduce Maternal and Child Mortality : A Systematic Review of Impact Evaluation Evidence. © World Bank, Washington, DC. http://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/23757?show=full License: CC BY 3.0 IGO.”