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The Ministerial Leadership Initiative (MLI) is a four-year program funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the David and Lucile Packard Foundation. MLI seeks to strengthen the leadership capacity of ministries of health in Ethiopia, Mali, Nepal, Senegal, and Sierra Leone to advance policy in three interrelated areas: health financing for equity, donor harmonization in health, and reproductive health. Key to MLI’s approach is the belief that stronger political leadership will improve health systems and ensure respect for the right to the highest attainable standard of health, particularly for the most vulnerable populations. The Council is a partner to MLI along with Realizing Rights, the Results for Development Institute, and the World Health Organization.
The primary mandate of the Council under MLI is to create, coordinate, and manage the Ministerial Consultative Process (MCP), a process representing the provision of input from members of the Council’s Ministerial Initiative for Health, a network of women ministers of health, to the first ever World Health Organization (WHO) report on women’s health globally, in collaboration with the Director General’s office of the World Health Organization (WHO).
Despite considerable progress in the past decades, societies continue to fail to meet the health care needs of women at key moments of their lives, particularly in their adolescent years and in older age. These are the key findings of the WHO report Women and health: today's evidence tomorrow's agenda.
WHO calls for urgent action both within the health sector and beyond to improve the health and lives of girls and women around the world, from birth to older age.
The report provides the latest and most comprehensive evidence available to date on women's specific needs and health challenges over their entire life-course. It includes the latest global and regional figures on the health and leading causes of death in women from birth, through childhood, adolescence and adulthood, to older age.
Women and Health: Today's Evidence, Tomorrow's Agenda - Policy Dialogue 
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