With the Plenary Sessions and Concurrent Sessions concluding successfully on Wednesday, Thursday commenced with Plenary Session 3, titled ‘Accountability for action’ was moderated by Kul Chandra Gautam, Co-Chair, UN SG’s Independent Accountability Panel for Every Woman, Every Child, Every Adolescent, Switzerland.

Concurrent Session 3A, ‘Leaving no one behind: The role of evidence and data innovation’ was moderated by Ann Starrs, Co-chair, Guttmacher-Lancet Commission on SRHR, United States.

Concurrent Session 3B, ‘Improving financial accountability to achieve the Global Strategy’s objectives’ was moderated by Gavin Yamey, Professor of the Practice of Global Health & Public Policy, Associate Director for Policy, Duke Global Health Institute, United States.

Concurrent Session 3C, ‘We the people’ was moderated by Marta Schaaf, Deputy Director of the Averting Maternal Death and Disability program, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, United States.

Concurrent Session 3D, ‘Private sector accountability for health and nutrition’ was moderator by Gerbrand Haverkamp, Executive Director, World Benchmarking Alliance, Netherlands.

Concurrent Session 3E, ‘Parliamentarians’ role in holding governments to account’ was moderated by Susan Kihika, Member of Parliament of Kenya, President of the IPU Bureau of Women Parliamentarians, Kenya.

Concurrent Session 3F, ‘Accountability in humanitarian emergency settings’ was moderated by Yasmin Ali Haque, UNICEF Representative, India.

Plenary Session 4, ‘The power of partnership: working better and smarter together’ was moderated by Anders Nordstrom, Ambassador for Global Health, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Sweden.

Concurrent Session 4A, ‘People-centred partnerships to drive impactful advocacy.’

Concurrent Session 4B, ‘Harnessing partnership and innovation to improve health’ was moderated by Katherine Semrau, Director, BetterBirth Program, United States.

Concurrent Session 4C, ‘Partnership and accountability for maternal and child health in challenging contexts’ was moderated by Lisa Hilmi, Executive Director, CORE Group, United States.

Concurrent Session 4D, ‘Using multisectoral collaboration to drive progress.’

Concurrent Session 4E, ‘Strengthening partnerships for sustainable financing for MNCH’ was moderated by Shai Venkatraman, Independent Journalist, India.

Concurrent Session 4F, ‘Demystifying Digital Technologies and their application for MNACH’ was moderated by Jane Thomason, Global Advisor on Digital Technologies, Abt Associates, Australia.

At the opening of the 2018 Partners’ Forum in Delhi, Prime Minister Narendra Modi pledged USD 100 billion to be invested into the improvement of health services until 2025. The commitment amounts to 2.5% of India’s GDP, representing an actual increase in health spending by 345% over the current share, in just eight years.

The Government of India is currently the Partnership’s acting Board Chair.