India Newborn Action Plan (INAP)

The India Newborn Action Plan (INAP) is India’s committed response to the Global Every Newborn Action Plan (ENAP), launched in June 2014 at the 67th World Health Assembly, to advance the Global Strategy for Women’s and Children’s Health. The ENAP sets forth a vision of a world that has eliminated preventable newborn deaths and stillbirths.

  • INAP lays out a vision and a plan for India to end preventable newborn deaths, accelerate progress and scale up high-impact yet cost effective interventions.

Salient Features: Builds on existing commitments under the National Health Mission and ‘Call to Action’ for Child Survival and Development.

  • Aims at attaining Single Digit Neonatal Mortality Rate by 2030, five years ahead of the global plan.
  • Emphasizes strengthened surveillance mechanism for tracking still births.
  • Focuses on ending preventable newborn deaths, improving quality of care and care beyond survival.
  • Prioritizes those babies that are born too soon, too small or sick—as they account for majority of all newborn deaths.
  • Aspires towards ensuring equitable progress for girls and boys, rural and urban, rich and poor, and between districts and states.
  • Identifies major guiding principles under the overarching principle of Integration: Equity, Gender, Quality of Care, Convergence, Accountability, and Partnerships.

Defines Six Pillars of Interventions

  1. Pre-conception and antenatal care
  2. Care during labour and child birth
  3. Immediate newborn care
  4. Care of healthy newborn
  5. Care of small and sick newborn
  6. Care beyond newborn survival

Serves as a framework for states/districts to develop their own action plan with measurable indicators.

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