Our Strategic Framework

Maintaining the CAH community at the central focus of collective action, @MATES4Kids has established a multistakeholder Community of Practice (CoP) to drive critical action through seamless collaboration and regular dialogue.
@Mates4Kids recognizes the six WHO regions of the world:
  • The African Region (AFR)
  • Region of the Americas (AMR)
  • Eastern Mediterranean Region (EMR)
  • European Region (EUR)
  • South East Asian Region (SEAR) and
  • Western Pacific Region (WPR)
​The @MATES4Kids CoP brings together a broad range of stakeholders, and facilitates collaboration between champions in each of these six regions so that achievements can be shared and critical action scaled locally
To achieve the goal of reducing mortality associated with CAH by 30% by 2030, the CoP makes a rights-based commitment to:

Improving Access to Essential Medicines and Equipment

Affordable access to CAH and childhood NCDs medications, like Hydrocortisone and Fludrocortisone, must be achieved for every country. 

Strengthening CAH and Other Childhood NCD Communities

Quality of life for children diagnosed with CAH and other NCDs must be improved through a holistic, sustainable community development approach. 

Scaling Newborn Screening

NBS must be scaled globally, with an equity lens informing implementation. The inclusion of NBS in the development agenda and universal health coverage discourse is critical.

Additional Frameworks

The work of @MATES4Kids is also informed by four other strategic frameworks:
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  • CLAN’s Strategic Framework for Action, which promotes a rights-based approach, focuses on a community of children living with a particular NCD as the visual hub of all collaborative action. This approach builds engagement between a broad range of multisectoral stakeholders and facilitates collective strategic action focused on five key pillars. @MATES4Kids seeks to specifically focus collaborative efforts on pillar one for the global CAH community: affordable access to essential CAH medicine and equipment. Learn more...​
  • Knowledge to Action Framework, which promotes an evidence-based, continuous quality improvement approach to improving health outcomes, with efforts adapted locally to ensure optimal impact of priority interventions. Knowledge, tools and resources are refined over time, thereby facilitating sustainable and scalable action to address specific problems. Learn more...
  • The Ottawa Charter, which identifies five key priorities for action: create supportive environments, develop personal skills, reorient health systems, strengthen community action, and build health public policy. It also acknowledges the imperative to enable, mediate, and advocate. In doing so, the Ottawa Charter aims to promote health and well-being. Learn more...
  • The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) Strategic Fund, which offers a unique model whereby regional technical cooperation enables pooled procurement of essential medicines and equipment. There have been significant achievements by the Strategic Fund, and these will undoubtedly inform future initiatives to benefit childhood NCD Communities around the world. Two-way learning and consultation may also identify some potential opportunities to strengthen the Strategic Fund with regard to improving access for childhood NCD Communities. Learn more...