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 67^th 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.

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.