The UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (IGME)
was formed in 2004 to share data on child mortality, harmonize
estimates within the UN system, improve methods for child
mortality estimation, report on progress towards the Millennium
Development Goals and enhance country capacity to produce timely
and properly assessed estimates of child mortality. The IGME,
led by the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) and the World
Health Organization (WHO), also includes the World Bank and the
United Nations Population Division of the Department of Economic
and Social Affairs as full members. The IGME's independent
Technical Advisory Group (TAG), comprising leading academic
scholars and independent experts in demography and
biostatistics, provides guidance on estimation methods,
technical issues and strategies for data analysis and data
quality assessment. The IGME updates its child mortality
estimates annually after reviewing newly available data and
assessing data quality. The Inter-agency Group for C