Muskoka Initiative

The Muskoka Initiative on Maternal, Newborn and Child Health is a funding initiative announced at the 36th G8 summit which commits member nations to collectively spend an additional $5 billion between 2010 and 2015 to accelerate progress toward the achievement of Millennium Development Goals 4 and 5, the reduction of maternal, infant and child mortality in developing countries.{{Cite web |date=26 June 2010 |title=Text of the G8 Summit communique: Muskoka Declaration |url=https://www.ctvnews.ca/text-of-the-g8-summit-communique-muskoka-declaration-1.526770 |access-date=26 June 2010 |publisher=CTV.ca}} A second summit on Maternal, Newborn and Child Health was held in Toronto from May 28–30, 2014, in follow-up to the original 36th G8 summit.{{Cite web |title=Maternal, Newborn and Child Health (MNCH) Summit |url=http://mnch.international.gc.ca/index-en.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140531124606/http://mnch.international.gc.ca/index-en.html |archive-date=31 May 2014 |access-date=30 May 2014 |publisher=Government of Canada}}