Improving health and well-being outcomes for children (age 1 month to 59 months, and 5 to 9 years) is a priority for WHO and UNICEF. CHAT is a technical advisory group to WHO and UNICEF. Its main objective is to support the harmonization and standardization of child health and well-being indicators.
Objectives of CHAT
Objective 1: To provide a platform for sharing and discussing the work of key child health and well-being initiatives and relevant work of UNICEF and WHO aimed at the achievement of child health related global goals and targets.
Objective 2: To identify priority activities and measurement gaps in child health and well-being.
Objective 3: To create a catalogue of standard indicators and validated tools for measuring and monitoring child health and well-being indicators.
Activities of CHAT
CHAT selected 26 core indicators measuring child health and well-being (published in Lancet Child and Adolescent Health). This group of indicators can be found in the searchable toolkit of child health indicators.
The group completed a roadmap for prioritizing a set of childhood pneumonia indicators for measurement improvement. Similar roadmaps are underway for malaria and diarrhoea.
Measuring and monitoring child health and well-being - an integral part of the climate change agenda
Recommendations for using health service coverage cascades to measure effective coverage of care for maternal, newborn, child and adolescent health interventions
Responsive caregiving: Conceptual clarity and the need for indicators.
Advocacy for better integration and use of child health indicators for global monitoring.
Harmonizing data visualizations on child health and well-being to strengthen advocacy and monitoring efforts
Standardising the measurement of child health indicators within global climate adaptation
A rapid systematic review and evidence synthesis of effective coverage measures and cascades for childbirth, newborn and child health in low- and middle-income countries
Global core indicators for measuring WHO’s paediatric quality-of-care standards in health facilities: development and expert consensus
Measurement tools and indicators for assessing nurturing care for early childhood development: A scoping review
Scaling up a monitoring and evaluation framework for sexual, reproductive, maternal, newborn, child, and adolescent health services and outcomes in humanitarian settings: A global initiative
Meeting reports
Meeting report: CHAT TAG Virtual meeting 10-12 February 2025
Report on the Eighth Meeting of the Child Health Accountability Tracking Technical Advisory Group (CHAT-TAG)
Meeting minutes of the Seventh Meeting of the Child Health Accountability Tracking Technical Advisory Group (CHAT-TAG)
Meeting minutes of the Fifth Meeting of the Child Health Accountability Tracking Technical Advisory Group (CHAT-TAG)
Report on the Fourth Meeting of the Child Health Accountability Tracking Technical Advisory Group (CHAT-TAG)
Report on the Third Meeting of the Child Health Accountability Tracking Technical Advisory Group (CHAT-TAG)
Second Meeting of the Child Health Accountability Tracking (CHAT)Technical Advisory Group (in-person)
First Meeting of the Child Health Accountability Tracking (CHAT)Technical Advisory Group
Peer-reviewed publications
Relief agencies in shock as Trump cuts 90% of USAID funding
Measuring and monitoring child health and wellbeing: recommendations for tracking progress with a core set of indicators in the Sustainable Development Goals era
Revitalizing child health: lessons from the past
Child Health Accountability Tracking—extending child health measurement
Key links
- UNICEF’s Data site
- MCA data portal - Child data
- Global Strategy for Women’s Children’s and Adolescents Health (2016-2030) Data Portal
- Integrated Management of Childhood Illness (IMCI)
- Improving the quality of paediatric care: an operational guide for facility based audit and review of paediatric mortality
- Ending preventable child deaths from pneumonia and diarrhoea by 2025: The integrated Global Action Plan for Pneumonia and Diarrhoea (GAPPD)
- Nurturing Care for Early Childhood Development
- WHO Global Health Estimates
- WHO Global Health Observatory
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