While Zambia has made great strides in reducing deaths of children under five, the country's neonatal mortality rate has remained too high. Concerned about this lack of progress, PATH convened civil society advocates for a workshop focused on child health in late 2011. This group—which included Save the Children, the Pediatric Association of Zambia, the Centre for Infectious Disease Research in Zambia, Zambia Centre for Applied Health Research, World Health Organization (WHO), UNICEF, University Teaching Hospital, the Zambia Centre for Applied Health Research/Boston University, World Vision International, and Clinton Health Access Initiative— identified the absence of newborn-focused policies and strategies at the national level as a key contributor to this lack of progress. Over a three-year period, the coalition worked side-by-side with government officials to increase commitment to improving newborn health and institute a series of targeted newborn health policies, including a Newborn Health Care Scale Up Framework, revised Integrated Management of Childhood Illness (IMCI) standards that included neonatal guidelines, and a set of Essential Newborn Care (ENC) Guidelines that could translate into specific action to save newborns’ lives.