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Every Newborn Action Plan (ENAP)

A 2014 plan led by WHO and UNICEF to end preventable newborn deaths and stillbirths by 2035. It sets targets for 2035 and milestones on the way, and 194 Member States endorsed it at the World Health Assembly in 2014.

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Overview

Technical summary

WHO plan (ISBN 978-92-4-150744-8), read from the English PDF; the who.int initiative page shows 24 June 2014 beside the plan and the IRIS record issues it on 2014-07-01. Goals: by 2035, all countries to reach 10 or less newborn deaths per 1000 live births and 10 or less stillbirths per 1000 total births; the 2030 milestone is a national rate of 12 or less for each, and the plan gives global averages of 7 and 8 for 2035 and 9 and 9 for 2030. The 2035 and 2030 points are held as milestone records. The plan's earlier milestones for 2020 and 2025 are not followed up here, and progress reports on the initiative page were not read. The PDF reserves all rights; only short quotations are used.

Milestones

Eras

No eras are recorded.

Claims and evidence

Context Global and national newborn mortality and stillbirth targets for 2030 and 2035, WHO Every Newborn Action Plan (2014)

Recipient
Mixed recipients
Population
All countries and the world average: targets for newborn deaths per 1 000 live births and stillbirths per 1 000 total births. The targets count babies who die in the newborn period and babies who die before birth, so the recipient is mixed.
Care setting
Not applicable: plan targets
Geography
Global (WHO and UNICEF plan)
Life stage
Late pregnancy, birth and the newborn period
Gestational age
Not reported
Postnatal age
Not reported
Follow-up
Targets for 2030 and 2035
Eligibility: 1 inclusion criterion; 1 exclusion criterion
Included
  • All countries
Excluded
  • Not stated in the source

  • Description Guidance Certainty not assessed

    The Every Newborn Action Plan, which WHO and UNICEF led and 194 Member States endorsed in 2014, sets for 2035 a national newborn mortality rate of 10 or less and a national stillbirth rate of 10 or less, and for 2030 a national rate of 12 or less for each, with global averages of 7 and 8 in 2035 and 9 and 9 in 2030.

    Applies to Mixed recipients
    • All countries and the world average: targets for newborn deaths per 1 000 live births and stillbirths per 1 000 total births. The targets count babies who die in the newborn period and babies who die before birth, so the recipient is mixed.
    • Not applicable: plan targets
    • Global (WHO and UNICEF plan)
    • Late pregnancy, birth and the newborn period
    • Gestational age Not reported
    • Postnatal age Not reported
    Follow-up Targets for 2030 and 2035
    Certainty method
    Not assessed
    Limitations
    These are targets set in 2014, not results; progress reports listed on the initiative page were not read. The plan counts newborn deaths per 1 000 live births and stillbirths per 1 000 total births. The PDF reserves all rights, so only short quotations are used.
    Last checked
    2026-10-15
    Next evidence check due
    Not scheduled
    Sources and citations (4)

    1. Supports Every Newborn: an action plan to end preventable deaths

      Publication · World Health Organization · Edition Action plan, 2014. The date is the one the who.int initiative page shows beside the plan, 24 June 2014; the WHO IRIS record 10665/127938 lists an issue date of 2014-07-01. The English PDF was read from IRIS (bitstream d5128253-1071-4cb2-9e96-83d7d774cbd0). The initiative page also lists progress reports and a 2024 call for proposals to rename the plan; none of them was read. · Published 2014-06-24 · ISBN: 978-92-4-150744-8

      Locator
      Fig. 4, Every Newborn mortality target
      How it applies
      WHO plan PDF; short quotation.
      Retrieved
      Source effective date
      Not reported
      Source state
      Current
      Snapshot hash
      7277e608a802e50e1b05c34c10767e803665aeb023d8b9228fa81ded99e61e68
      Reuse basis
      The PDF copyright page reads all rights reserved and sends requests to reproduce it to WHO Press; the IRIS record gives no licence. WHO website terms of use (https://www.who.int/about/policies/terms-of-use, fetched as mk-who-terms-of-use.html, sha256 8edac88c0773639d74a023402b231adafb407e8a680e6620c099eb5a17fb61ab) allow extracts to be reproduced for research or private study but not for sale or commercial purposes, with an acknowledgment of WHO as the source and the URL. Only short quotations with attribution are used, and neither the PDF nor the pages are committed.

    2. Supports Every Newborn: an action plan to end preventable deaths

      Publication · World Health Organization · Edition Action plan, 2014. The date is the one the who.int initiative page shows beside the plan, 24 June 2014; the WHO IRIS record 10665/127938 lists an issue date of 2014-07-01. The English PDF was read from IRIS (bitstream d5128253-1071-4cb2-9e96-83d7d774cbd0). The initiative page also lists progress reports and a 2024 call for proposals to rename the plan; none of them was read. · Published 2014-06-24 · ISBN: 978-92-4-150744-8

      Locator
      Fig. 5, Every Newborn stillbirth rate target
      How it applies
      WHO plan PDF; short quotation.
      Retrieved
      Source effective date
      Not reported
      Source state
      Current
      Snapshot hash
      7277e608a802e50e1b05c34c10767e803665aeb023d8b9228fa81ded99e61e68
      Reuse basis
      The PDF copyright page reads all rights reserved and sends requests to reproduce it to WHO Press; the IRIS record gives no licence. WHO website terms of use (https://www.who.int/about/policies/terms-of-use, fetched as mk-who-terms-of-use.html, sha256 8edac88c0773639d74a023402b231adafb407e8a680e6620c099eb5a17fb61ab) allow extracts to be reproduced for research or private study but not for sale or commercial purposes, with an acknowledgment of WHO as the source and the URL. Only short quotations with attribution are used, and neither the PDF nor the pages are committed.

    3. Supports Every Newborn: an action plan to end preventable deaths

      Publication · World Health Organization · Edition Action plan, 2014. The date is the one the who.int initiative page shows beside the plan, 24 June 2014; the WHO IRIS record 10665/127938 lists an issue date of 2014-07-01. The English PDF was read from IRIS (bitstream d5128253-1071-4cb2-9e96-83d7d774cbd0). The initiative page also lists progress reports and a 2024 call for proposals to rename the plan; none of them was read. · Published 2014-06-24 · ISBN: 978-92-4-150744-8

      Locator
      Fig. 7, Global level
      How it applies
      WHO plan PDF; short quotation.
      Retrieved
      Source effective date
      Not reported
      Source state
      Current
      Snapshot hash
      7277e608a802e50e1b05c34c10767e803665aeb023d8b9228fa81ded99e61e68
      Reuse basis
      The PDF copyright page reads all rights reserved and sends requests to reproduce it to WHO Press; the IRIS record gives no licence. WHO website terms of use (https://www.who.int/about/policies/terms-of-use, fetched as mk-who-terms-of-use.html, sha256 8edac88c0773639d74a023402b231adafb407e8a680e6620c099eb5a17fb61ab) allow extracts to be reproduced for research or private study but not for sale or commercial purposes, with an acknowledgment of WHO as the source and the URL. Only short quotations with attribution are used, and neither the PDF nor the pages are committed.

    4. Supports Every Newborn: an action plan to end preventable deaths

      Publication · World Health Organization · Edition Action plan, 2014. The date is the one the who.int initiative page shows beside the plan, 24 June 2014; the WHO IRIS record 10665/127938 lists an issue date of 2014-07-01. The English PDF was read from IRIS (bitstream d5128253-1071-4cb2-9e96-83d7d774cbd0). The initiative page also lists progress reports and a 2024 call for proposals to rename the plan; none of them was read. · Published 2014-06-24 · ISBN: 978-92-4-150744-8

      Locator
      About the initiative, endorsement
      How it applies
      WHO initiative page.
      Retrieved
      Source effective date
      Not reported
      Source state
      Current
      Snapshot hash
      016c7b5618f5d057ca933bb08180eb2c4ead059ebd89a9fabf9713f49c8e0ed6
      Reuse basis
      The PDF copyright page reads all rights reserved and sends requests to reproduce it to WHO Press; the IRIS record gives no licence. WHO website terms of use (https://www.who.int/about/policies/terms-of-use, fetched as mk-who-terms-of-use.html, sha256 8edac88c0773639d74a023402b231adafb407e8a680e6620c099eb5a17fb61ab) allow extracts to be reproduced for research or private study but not for sale or commercial purposes, with an acknowledgment of WHO as the source and the URL. Only short quotations with attribution are used, and neither the PDF nor the pages are committed.

Record details

Record id
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Content hash
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