Global Strategy for Drowning Prevention: Turning the tide on a leading killer

Overview

This strategy responds to an urgent need to unite a diverse multisectoral and multistakeholder audience through shared goals and a coordinated effort to meet the drowning challenge in all its forms. It offers a global-to-local approach, with affected people and populations at the centre of all decisions. This strategy, the first ever for the global drowning prevention community, aims to:

• strengthen coordination and alignment of global, regional, national and local-level drowning prevention efforts, as called for in UN and WHA resolutions;
• develop a shared purpose, goals and response, and set targets;
• design and deliver effective interventions that address priority risk factors for drowning;
• help countries identify multisectoral partners for effective collaboration that addresses the broad scope of drowning risks;
• promote efficient use of resources (including pooling resources) across related sectors and agendas; and
• promote standardized evidence-informed approaches to reducing drowning deaths, and their scale-up, tailored to local needs.