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Child Health Accountability Tracking (CHAT) Technical Advisory Group Meeting Summary

Date: June 1st, 2022
Chairpersons: Jennifer Requejo and Kate Strong

1. New Members

• Welcome extended to Frances Aboud and Maureen Black.

2. Cross-Cutting Work Across Three Workstreams

• Online Toolkit Development

  • A searchable database of indicators is being developed, including existing indicators from the Lancet paper and new ones (e.g., refractive error).
  • Draft reference sheets for each indicator are being reviewed by TAG members by the end of June.
  • Action: Elizabeth Westley to share drafts with the TAG.

• CHAT Website Updates

  • Website to be updated; team encourages members to send updated headshots and childhood photos.

• Quality of Care and Effective Coverage

  • Collaboration with WHO Quality of Care Reference Group; indicators paper under revision.
  • Pediatric quality of care indicator paper resubmitted for minor revisions to BMC Pediatrics.
  • Effective coverage paper published; refractive error indicator potentially linked to quality care.
  • Proposal to develop a formalized process for adding new indicators, with input before the fall meeting.
  • Action: Kate Strong and Jennifer Requejo to draft a new indicator process.

• GAMA Meeting

  • Interest in joint program on child mental health and child health dashboard.
  • Kate to follow up on child mental health initiatives.

• Children in All Policies (CAP) Dashboard

  • Presented at subgroup meetings; collaboration with WHO and UNICEF ongoing.
  • Upcoming CAP2030 updates.

• MoNITOR Updates

  • UNICEF's RMNCAH indicator guidance requires CHAT reviews to incorporate lessons on indicator work.

• Cross-Cutting Papers

  • Project to improve uptake of CHAT indicators.
  • Dashboard harmonization proposal: creation of a "portal of dashboards" for data resources.
  • Paper on standardized indicators to emphasize using existing metrics.

3. Workstream Updates

• Acute and Prevention

  • Measurement roadmaps for pneumonia, diarrhea, and malaria.
    • Involved indicators across care pathways (care-seeking, case management, referrals).
    • Drafts available for review by end of June.
    • Need for guidance documents and metadata clarification.

• Health Promotion and Child Development

  • New members: France and Maureen to join the health promotion workstream.
  • Connections to Nurturing Care Framework and other initiatives (e.g., UNICEF ECDi2030).
  • Zeina to represent CHAT in the TEAMS group.

• Chronic Conditions, Injuries, Disability

  • Exploration of refractive error as an indicator for inclusive child health data.
    • Jennifer to update on UNICEF's work on NCD profiles.

4. Actions to Follow Up

• Reference sheets and indicator paper: Due by end of June.
• Meeting feedback: All TAG updates to be integrated by secretariat.
• Acute and Prevention roadmap: Review by June 8th; meeting planned for June 9th.
• Face-to-face meeting: Poll to be sent in July for dates set in October/November.
• Dashboard portal: More discussion needed on criteria for dashboard selection; to be addressed by PMNCH.
• Indicator guidance update: SECURE guidance modules to be updated for facilities.

5. Outbreaks Mentioned

• Severe Acute Unexplained Hepatitis: WHO is investigating; reaches primarily Europe and North America.
• Monkeypox: Endemic situation in children across regions, requires monitoring.

The meeting concluded with an emphasis on maintaining momentum in each workstream and further coordination in cross-cutting areas like data harmonization and indicator expansion.