The "Every newborn action plan" is a plan to end neonatal preventable deaths. It sets out a vision and proposes a goal and targets to end newborn deaths from preventable causes. 

Five guiding principles and five strategic objectives are at the core of the plan. The action plan is based on evidence and considers the main causes on newborn mortality and effective interventions to prevent and manage these. 

The Every Newborn Action Plan is situated in the continuum of care for Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn and Child Health. It will be a useful resource to guide the design of national plans to accelerate progress towards reducing maternal, neonatal mortality and morbidity.

Despite remarkable progress in reducing the deaths of children under-five in the EMR, newborn deaths and stillbirths are falling at a much slower rate. Under-five mortality has fallen by 48% since 1990, whereas neonatal mortality fell by only 37% and accounts for 51% of the total mortality of under-five children in the Region.

In light of this situation and the need to do more to save the lives of newborns, commitments have been recently renewed by UN Regional Directors (WHO/EMRO, UNICEF/MENARO and ROSA and UNFPA/ASRO) who signed a Joint Statement on Accelerating the Reduction of Neonatal Mortality. They commit their continued support to governments across the region to end preventable maternal, newborn and child deaths by 2030

In April 2016, EMR Member States had identified the priority five key actions for each of ENAP strategic objective to be integrated to the National strategic Reproductive, maternal, neonatal, child and adolescent (RMNCAH) plans and agreed on a set of recommendations that will assist countries in ending preventable neonatal mortality and morbidity.