BRAC's founder and Chairperson and President Governing Board, BU Mr. F H Abed attended a meeting organized by the interim Secretariat of the Child Survival Partnership (CSP) in New York City from September 30 to October 01, 2004 in the UNICEF House at UN Plaza to forge a collective vision and business plan to reduce child mortality. CSP has been so far joined by organizations like UNICEF, WHO, WB, USAID, CIDA, GATES Foundation with partner countries, professional, academic and research institutions. An interim Secretariat of the CSP has been set up and an interim Steering Committee has been guiding the work of the CSP during its period of initial development and organization of the Secretariat and Partnership.