The 2018 Acting on the Call report focuses on the Journey to Self-Reliance

We are pleased to share USAID’s 2018 Acting on the Call report. This year’s report details how we partner with 25 countries on their journey to self-reliance for preventing child and maternal deaths by enabling countries to plan, fund and manage their own progress. For the first time ever, our report includes a return on investment analysis: USAID’s work to save women and children can yield an average 6-to-1 return on investment, resulting in $26.9 billion made available to the health sector by 2025.

Lufta and her 10-month-old baby boy, Maruf, are two of the women and children that the Agency has helped access essential—and often life-saving—health services. They’re in front of a soon-to-be completed Surjer Hashi clinic, part of a network of nearly 400 clinics in Bangladesh that, under a newly-created private social enterprise, will gradually reduce financial dependence on the Agency after 20 years of funding.

Learn more

• You can see many more examples of how we partner with countries on their unique development journeys in this year’s report
• See the 2018 fact sheet [PDF, 2.8MB] highlighting country progress on the journey to self-reliance
• Read stories from the perspective of the people USAID's work impacts
  
• Read a Medium post on how USAID is building self-reliance
• Use #MomandBaby to share on social media our annual progress in preventing child and maternal deaths

Photo credit: Abir Abdullah