Maternal, newborn, child & adolescent health
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Activities of GAMA
Goals
- To provide technical guidance to WHO, UN H6+ agencies and other relevant measurement groups to define a core set of adolescent health indicators, for the purpose of harmonising efforts around adolescent health measurement and reporting.
- To promote harmonised guidance for adolescent health measurement, supporting countries and technical organizations in collecting useful data to track progress in the improvement of adolescent health.
2-year Objectives
- To define the scope of GAMA’s work by April 2019.
- To undertake a mapping of initiatives and measurement groups relevant to adolescent health measurement by June 2019.
- To define priority areas for adolescent health measurement by August 2019.
- To develop a plan for dissemination of information by September 2019.
- To develop a plan for engagement with countries and relevant measurement groups by September 2019.
- To conduct an indicator mapping against the priority areas by November 2019.
- To identify a set of priority indicators, and provide technical guidance on their measurement to WHO, UN H6+ agencies and other relevant measurement groups by April 2020.
- To develop a way forward to harmonize measurement of priority indicators by April 2020.
- To identify measurement and data gaps, and to propose a way forward of filling them by July 2020.
Longer-term Objectives
- To provide technical guidance to WHO, UN H6+ agencies and other relevant measurement groups on filling the identified measurement and data gaps.
- To provide technical guidance to WHO, UN H6+ agencies and other relevant measurement groups on developing a systematic framework for reporting.
- To provide technical guidance to WHO, UN H6+ agencies and other relevant measurement groups for research on indicators needing further development.
Meeting documents
28-30 November 2018 - Geneva
First meeting of the GAMA Advisory Group
Summary: The group considered the current adolescent health measurement landscape, and discussed and agreed upon the terms of reference and the workplan.
26 -27 June 2019 - Geneva
Second meeting of the GAMA Advisory Group
Summary: The group developed a way forward for defining priority areas for adolescent health measurement, and drafted plans for engagement with countries and measurement groups, and for dissemination of GAMA information products.