Table 2. Descriptions of RMNCH codes.

RMNCH code	Summary	Description
AF, allocation factor; RMNCH, reproductive, maternal, newborn and child health.
0	Exclude	Not related to RMNCH according to our definition. This typically includes activities related to: research, dentistry, tobacco and alcohol/drugs, and non-health-related activities. Research activities are also coded 0, as are conferences unless clearly oriented toward policy or implementation rather than science (e.g. Women Deliver). Core contributions from donors to multilateral agencies such as UNAIDS are coded 0. Everything reported as debt relief (purpose code 600XX) or donor-country promotional activities (purpose code 99820) receive a 0 code.
100	General budget support	Funds disbursed to the central bank or regional governments of the recipient country with no earmarking. Funds should be associated with poverty reduction as opposed to balance of payment support. Includes poverty reduction support credits (PRSCs) but not structural adjustment loans or macroeconomic stabilisation grants. Includes any generic/unspecified ‘budget support’ records.
200	Health sector budget support	Funds disbursed to the central bank or regional governments of the recipient country but earmarked specifically for the health sector. Funds are not earmarked to areas within the health sector. Includes ‘block grants’ to the health sector.
300	Health basket-funding	Funds earmarked to specific areas within the health sector e.g. primary health care. Also includes basic package of health services.
411	Child malaria	Entire project is oriented to malaria activities targeting children from one week up to five years.
412	HIV/AIDS—prevention of parent-to-child transmission	Entire project is oriented to the prevention of parent-to-child transmission of HIV.
413	Childhood nutrition	Entire project is oriented to nutrition activities targeting children under five. Includes breastfeeding and supplementary feeding. Excludes food security, food aid, and school feeding. Unspecified ‘nutrition’ projects are coded as 435 (Nutrition—generic).
414	Integrated management of childhood illnesses	Entire project is oriented to integrated management of childhood illnesses (IMCI). Includes integrated community case management (ICCM), integrated management of newborn and child illness (IMNCI), community integrated management of childhood illnesses (CIMCI), ‘EPI [expanded programme of immunisation] +malaria’, young child survival and development (YCSD).
415	Immunisation—excluding polio	Entire project is oriented to immunisation activities and does not specify that the project will only include polio immunization. Includes generic/unspecified vaccine/immunisation projects. Includes tuberculosis unless specified for adults. Excludes vaccines in emergency situations (e.g. cholera, yellow fever) or other vaccines that benefit the general population (436). Excludes human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination (423). Includes ‘cold chain’ etc in 120 codes unless specified for blood (450).
416	Immunisation—polio	Entire project is oriented to polio immunisation activities.
417	Non-specified infectious diseases in children	Entire project is oriented to infectious disease activities other than malaria or HIV/AIDS targeting children under five. The activities target either a single infectious disease or multiple infectious diseases.
418	Non-specified child health	Entire project is oriented to health activities targeting children under five. The activities do not fall within any of the previous child health categories or are not specified. Includes activities to support children’s hospitals and paediatric wards; unspecified child protection listed in 120/130; child survival; and unspecified ‘child health’ projects and health projects for ‘children’.
419	Childhood HIV/AIDS	Entire project is oriented to treatment of paediatric HIV/AIDS.
421	Reproductive, maternal and neonatal health	Entire project is oriented to maternal and/or neonatal health activities including safe motherhood, care during childbirth and newborn care. Includes training of midwives and obstetricians, congenital syphilis and fistula. Excludes family planning 422, sexual health and sexual and gender-based violence 423, activities related to sexually transmitted infections 437, and all projects referring to ‘reproductive commodities’ (e.g. not contraceptives) unless further information is provided to indicate that the commodities fall within our definition of maternal and newborn health, such as clean delivery kits and other commodities for safe motherhood (else 424). Excludes projects which also mention children, which should be coded as 431. Includes unspecified 13020 projects, but vague ‘reproductive health’ projects are coded as 424 (sexual/reproductive health—mixed).
422	Family planning	Project is oriented to family planning including the provision of and counselling in contraceptive commodities, abortion services, infertility drugs and procedures, and information, education and communication (IEC) activities that support or promote family planning.
423	Sexual health	Entire project is focused on sexual health. Includes behaviour change programmes for safer sexual behaviour, cancers of the reproductive system (including breast, cervical, ovarian, uterine) and HPV vaccination, and sexual and gender-based violence (e.g. rape, incest, sexual trafficking and sexual exploitation) if listed under health or reproductive health purpose codes (120/130) or contains a clear description as addressing a health and not a human rights or other social service aspect if included in the government and civil society codes (150) or other social services codes (160). Includes projects related to female genital mutilation listed in 120/130.
424	Sexual/reproductive health—mixed	Includes adolescent/youth sexual and reproductive health programmes or any other programmes that specify SRHR (sexual and reproductive health and rights). Generally includes projects with CRS purpose code 13030 implemented by International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF) and many from UNFPA. Use for ‘mixed’ interventions that straddle across code 421 and other RMNH codes—but not code 431. Includes vague ‘reproductive health’ projects and unspecified projects with purpose code 13081; includes vague projects with purpose code 13040 where donor is UNICEF.
431	Maternal and child health	Entire project is oriented to maternal and child health (children older than one week). Includes neonatal only if child is also included. Excludes specific malaria 433 and nutrition 435 projects.
432	Malaria—generic	Entire project is oriented towards malaria without specifying the target population.
433	Maternal/child malaria	Entire project is focused on malaria prevention or treatment activities for women during pregnancy, childbirth and the postnatal period (1 week) for newborns, and projects for both mothers and children under five. Includes all ITN projects, which are assumed to be for mothers and children only. Programmes for children under five only are coded 411.
434	HIV/AIDS—generic	Entire project is oriented towards HIV/AIDS without specifying the target population. TB integrated with HIV is included. Includes abstinence etc if described as for HIV prevention. Include generic ‘high-risk populations’ or similar; include sex workers, using an allocation factor if named alongside other high-risk groups; exclude if specifically for men having sex with men or injecting drug users. To the extent possible, exclude projects targeting the socio-economic causes and consequences of HIV, such as livelihoods, education, and orphans and vulnerable children (OVC).
435	Nutrition	Entire project is focused on nutrition activities for women and children. If not explicitly mentioned, both general ‘nutrition’ projects and targeted food supplementation to malnourished persons are assumed to target women and children only. Excludes food security, food aid and school feeding, and excludes projects that mention these alongside ‘nutrition’. Agriculture projects in purpose code 311 is that they are excluded.
436	Non-specified infectious diseases and other health conditions	Project is focused on health activities for which children are likely to be a beneficiary with the same probability as the rest of the population wherein the project does not specify the target group. Includes combined projects targeting multiple infectious diseases (e.g. projects targeting Malaria, TB and HIV jointly). Also includes general population vaccines including emergencies (e.g. cholera), avian flu, land mine clearing and awareness but not solely advocacy or economic support to victims, arsenic poisoning prevention. Includes water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) projects in 140 that mention a targeted disease (e.g. cholera, diarrhoea). Includes eye health projects (in 120) except those addressing non-child problems such as cataracts (0). Excludes diabetes, alcoholism, kidney disease and non-communicable diseases generally unless likely to affect children under five.
437	Sexually transmitted infections—generic	Entire project is focused on sexually transmitted infections (STIs) without specifying the condition or the target population. Includes testing, prevention, treatment and care of STIs, reproductive tract infections and other gynaecological morbidities. Includes HIV alongside STIs, but not HIV alone.
440	General health system—primary health care	Project supports the delivery of integrated services at the primary or basic level of the health system. Such projects do not target a specific disease or area of health. Includes training, infrastructure or resourcing (e.g. drugs) explicitly for primary health care. Includes WASH activities whose primary stated purpose is to improve human health—not WASH infrastructure alone—as shown by inclusion in the health purpose codes (120); if included in the water purpose codes (140XX) or under the humanitarian purpose codes (720XX), a WASH project would get 440/450/460 if providing WASH for health facilities, 436 if addressing a named disease, and otherwise 0. WASH for schools is excluded; a project for ‘schools and communities’ would get 440 with AF 0.5. Includes humanitarian activities defined vaguely as ‘health’ or implemented by a humanitarian organization whose primary area of activity is health and community health. Includes ‘health education’ projects targeting the population.
450	General health system—hospital level care	Project supports the delivery of integrated services at the hospital or secondary level of the health system. Such projects do not target a specific disease or area of health. Includes blood transfusion services. Includes training, infrastructure or resourcing (e.g. drugs) explicitly for hospital-level care.
460	General health system—policy/all levels	Project supports health system development rather than a specific disease, or demographic group. This could be either at the administrative level (i.e. policy, planning and monitoring) or at the level of service delivery (i.e. health providers). Such projects typically provide financial support for health infrastructure, human resources (which includes salaries as well as training of nurses and doctors including higher education for medical school), drug provision and management, medical equipment, policy development and monitoring systems (e.g. information systems), except where these are more specifically described as coming under 440/450. Includes ‘health sector reform’ projects, core support to international health service delivery NGOs, advocacy and health promotion. Excludes funding for policy in more specific codes, which should take the more specific code. Includes all health insurance projects. Includes ‘health education’ where the object is providers of such education.
999	Disbursement blank/zero	Disbursement is zero or not reported.