Type	Voluntary commitment by other stakeholders
Organisation	Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
Scope	Global
Themes	Data, monitoring, and follow-up; International public finance; Social sectors

Description

1. Child Health and Mortality Prevention Surveillance Network (CHAMPS), a network of disease surveillance sites in developing countries. These sites will help gather better data, faster, about how, where and why children are getting sick and dying. This data will help the global health community get the right interventions to the right children in the right place to save lives. The network will also be invaluable in providing capacity and training in the event of an epidemic, such as Ebola or SARS. The Gates Foundation plans an initial commitment of up to $75 million on the effort.

Targets

CHAMPS should more definitively track the causes of childhood mortality.

Indicators

We anticipate having pathologically confirmed data from at least 6 sites in Africa and South Asia, for the first time providing definitive information on what is killing kids in a representative sample of the highest mortality regions of the world.

Resources

A minimum of $75m has been committed by BMGF for the first 3 years, with the anticipation that other partners will contribute matching funds adequate to meet the $150m target for a robust system.

Timeframe

initial results from the CHAMPS network will accumulate over the first 3 years of the system and continue for at least 20 years