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On April 17, 2018, the International Women’s Health Coalition (IWHC) celebrated its 2018 Annual Dinner at the Mandarin Oriental in New York City. IWHC recognized the work of renowned human rights champion Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, who received the IWHC Visionary Leadership Award; and Kenyan activist Monica Oguttu, Executive Director of the Kisumu Medical and Education Trust (KMET), who received the Joan B. Dunlop Award.
Photo: Sean Sime for IWHC
With reinvigorated family planning and maternal health efforts underway, including FP2020 and planning for the post-Millennium Development Goal era, it is critical that there is equitable participation of women, youth, and their communities in the design, delivery, and monitoring of reproductive and maternal health policies and programs. Social accountability mechanisms create meaningful links between citizens, service providers, and governments that can in turn lead to more responsive, accountable, and effective health systems. In Malawi, the government and CARE are currently implementing a Community Score Card at the district level to improve health outcomes and ensure rights. Are such social accountability efforts the answer to keeping rights at the center of our sexual, reproductive and maternal health efforts?
More: www.wilsoncenter.org/event/social-accountability-the-answ...
How can communications professionals, policymakers, and academic experts effectively communicate environmental and health issues in a skeptical era? In the first of two panels, communications directors from U.S. and UN agencies and environmental and health NGOs discussed the relationships and negotiations that underlie action (or inaction) in a major policy-making capital like Washington, D.C. In the second panel, five speakers explored the cultural and social causes and consequences of climate change skepticism (especially American climate change skepticism) and consider the implications for national and international efforts to address global climate change. This two-part discussion is sponsored by the Environmental Communication Division of the National Communication Association.
Read more: www.wilsoncenter.org/event/talking-science-environmental-...
Pen Sopheak, a midwife working for PSI, describes different methods of birth control at a one-day reproductive health clinic run by PSI at a local health centre in the countryside near Kampong Speu, Cambodia.
PSI (Population Services International) is working in this area to provide counselling and access to birth control to women as part of their reproductive health program.
PSI is a nonprofit organization based in Washington, D.C. that harnesses the vitality of the private sector to address the health problems of low-income and vulnerable populations in more than 60 developing countries. With programs in malaria, reproductive health, child survival, HIV and tuberculosis, PSI promotes products, services and healthy behavior that enable low-income and vulnerable people to lead healthier lives. Products and services are sold at subsidized prices rather than given away in order to motivate commercial sector involvement.
Kampong Speu, Cambodia. November 2008.
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How can communications professionals, policymakers, and academic experts effectively communicate environmental and health issues in a skeptical era? In the first of two panels, communications directors from U.S. and UN agencies and environmental and health NGOs discussed the relationships and negotiations that underlie action (or inaction) in a major policy-making capital like Washington, D.C. In the second panel, five speakers explored the cultural and social causes and consequences of climate change skepticism (especially American climate change skepticism) and consider the implications for national and international efforts to address global climate change. This two-part discussion is sponsored by the Environmental Communication Division of the National Communication Association.
Read more: www.wilsoncenter.org/event/talking-science-environmental-...
Women and their children crowd the sign-in desk at a reproductive health clinic hosted by PSI in the countryside near Kampong Speu, Cambodia.
PSI (Population Services International) is working in this area to provide counselling and access to birth control to women as part of their reproductive health program.
PSI is a nonprofit organization based in Washington, D.C. that harnesses the vitality of the private sector to address the health problems of low-income and vulnerable populations in more than 60 developing countries. With programs in malaria, reproductive health, child survival, HIV and tuberculosis, PSI promotes products, services and healthy behavior that enable low-income and vulnerable people to lead healthier lives. Products and services are sold at subsidized prices rather than given away in order to motivate commercial sector involvement.
Kampong Speu, Cambodia. November 2008.
On April 17, 2018, the International Women’s Health Coalition (IWHC) celebrated its 2018 Annual Dinner at the Mandarin Oriental in New York City. IWHC recognized the work of renowned human rights champion Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, who received the IWHC Visionary Leadership Award; and Kenyan activist Monica Oguttu, Executive Director of the Kisumu Medical and Education Trust (KMET), who received the Joan B. Dunlop Award.
Pictured: High Commissioner Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein.
Photo: Cindy Ord/Getty Images for IWHC
How can communications professionals, policymakers, and academic experts effectively communicate environmental and health issues in a skeptical era? In the first of two panels, communications directors from U.S. and UN agencies and environmental and health NGOs discussed the relationships and negotiations that underlie action (or inaction) in a major policy-making capital like Washington, D.C. In the second panel, five speakers explored the cultural and social causes and consequences of climate change skepticism (especially American climate change skepticism) and consider the implications for national and international efforts to address global climate change. This two-part discussion is sponsored by the Environmental Communication Division of the National Communication Association.
Read more: www.wilsoncenter.org/event/talking-science-environmental-...
White Ribbon Alliance Nigeria in partnership with Wellbeing foundation launched the #WhatWomenWant campaign in Abuja, Nigeria.
#WhatWomenWant intends to improve quality maternal and reproductive healthcare for women and girls between the ages of 15-49 years. The campaign is a nationwide 2 year campaign lasting from 2018-2019. #WhatWomenWant will collect responses throughout 2018 and key findings will be analysed, aggregated and shared in 2019. It will use key global and national moments to involve and galvanize as many as possible in making positive change for women and girls. Share what you want and make your voice heard: www.whatwomenwant.org
#WhatWomenWant
Abuja, Nigeria.
April 13, 2018.
On April 17, 2018, the International Women’s Health Coalition (IWHC) celebrated its 2018 Annual Dinner at the Mandarin Oriental in New York City. IWHC recognized the work of renowned human rights champion Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, who received the IWHC Visionary Leadership Award; and Kenyan activist Monica Oguttu, Executive Director of the Kisumu Medical and Education Trust (KMET), who received the Joan B. Dunlop Award.
Photo: Sean Sime for IWHC
With reinvigorated family planning and maternal health efforts underway, including FP2020 and planning for the post-Millennium Development Goal era, it is critical that there is equitable participation of women, youth, and their communities in the design, delivery, and monitoring of reproductive and maternal health policies and programs. Social accountability mechanisms create meaningful links between citizens, service providers, and governments that can in turn lead to more responsive, accountable, and effective health systems. In Malawi, the government and CARE are currently implementing a Community Score Card at the district level to improve health outcomes and ensure rights. Are such social accountability efforts the answer to keeping rights at the center of our sexual, reproductive and maternal health efforts?
More: www.wilsoncenter.org/event/social-accountability-the-answ...
With reinvigorated family planning and maternal health efforts underway, including FP2020 and planning for the post-Millennium Development Goal era, it is critical that there is equitable participation of women, youth, and their communities in the design, delivery, and monitoring of reproductive and maternal health policies and programs. Social accountability mechanisms create meaningful links between citizens, service providers, and governments that can in turn lead to more responsive, accountable, and effective health systems. In Malawi, the government and CARE are currently implementing a Community Score Card at the district level to improve health outcomes and ensure rights. Are such social accountability efforts the answer to keeping rights at the center of our sexual, reproductive and maternal health efforts?
More: www.wilsoncenter.org/event/social-accountability-the-answ...
On April 17, 2018, the International Women’s Health Coalition (IWHC) celebrated its 2018 Annual Dinner at the Mandarin Oriental in New York City. IWHC recognized the work of renowned human rights champion Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, who received the IWHC Visionary Leadership Award; and Kenyan activist Monica Oguttu, Executive Director of the Kisumu Medical and Education Trust (KMET), who received the Joan B. Dunlop Award.
Photo: Cindy Ord/Getty Images for IWHC
How can communications professionals, policymakers, and academic experts effectively communicate environmental and health issues in a skeptical era? In the first of two panels, communications directors from U.S. and UN agencies and environmental and health NGOs discussed the relationships and negotiations that underlie action (or inaction) in a major policy-making capital like Washington, D.C. In the second panel, five speakers explored the cultural and social causes and consequences of climate change skepticism (especially American climate change skepticism) and consider the implications for national and international efforts to address global climate change. This two-part discussion is sponsored by the Environmental Communication Division of the National Communication Association.
Read more: www.wilsoncenter.org/event/talking-science-environmental-...
Rapid population growth can be a contributing factor to both greenhouse gas emissions and vulnerability to climate stresses. Early childbearing, high fertility rates, and short birth intervals are associated with poor maternal and child health outcomes as well as lower educational attainment and work force participation, which directly impede women’s ability to participate and invest in climate change adaptation. However, the positive benefits of voluntary family planning, either for emissions reductions or adaptation, have not figured prominently in climate policy discussions or those related to improving access to family planning.
To address this gap, the Population Reference Bureau and Worldwatch Institute formed an international Population Dynamics and Climate-Compatible Development Expert Working Group to identify policy opportunities to increase investment in family planning in climate-sensitive development initiatives. Join us for a presentation about the working group’s report and discussion with select working group members.
Read more: www.wilsoncenter.org/event/bridging-the-gap-conversation-...
With the Millennium Development Goals coming to a close and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) under consideration, the international community has a unique opportunity to define the next priorities for global development. Coming on the heels of this year’s United Nations General Assembly meeting, a panel of three development experts discuss key issues that are underrepresented – or missing altogether – on the SDG agenda: climate change, peace and governance, and reproductive health.
Read more: www.wilsoncenter.org/event/three-great-ideas-werent-the-u...
As more women around the world become economically active, are they also empowered? And how will this empowerment change other aspects of their lives, like reproductive health? A new white paper from United Nations Foundation, Women’s Economic Empowerment and Reproductive Health, addresses these and other key issues for the post-Millennium Development Goals development agenda. It also offers an independent perspective on the long-term implications of rising levels of women’s participation in the global labor force. Author Alaka Basu spoke at the Wilson Center on October 10.
Read more: www.wilsoncenter.org/event/womens-economic-empowerment-an...
With reinvigorated family planning and maternal health efforts underway, including FP2020 and planning for the post-Millennium Development Goal era, it is critical that there is equitable participation of women, youth, and their communities in the design, delivery, and monitoring of reproductive and maternal health policies and programs. Social accountability mechanisms create meaningful links between citizens, service providers, and governments that can in turn lead to more responsive, accountable, and effective health systems. In Malawi, the government and CARE are currently implementing a Community Score Card at the district level to improve health outcomes and ensure rights. Are such social accountability efforts the answer to keeping rights at the center of our sexual, reproductive and maternal health efforts?
More: www.wilsoncenter.org/event/social-accountability-the-answ...
WRA Kenya's National Coordinator, Angela Nguku, pictured with a volunteer and Hon. Patrick Munene, MP championing quality health care. He was also on Citizen TV show, and he is organizing for WRA Kenya to meet with other parliamentarians to discuss What Women Want on 30 April 2018.
#WhatWomenWant intends to improve quality maternal and reproductive healthcare for women and girls between the ages of 15-49 years. The campaign is a nationwide 2 year campaign lasting from 2018-2019. #WhatWomenWant will collect responses throughout 2018 and key findings will be analysed, aggregated and shared in 2019. It will use key global and national moments to involve and galvanize as many as possible in making positive change for women and girls. Share what you want for your quality maternal and reproductive healthcare and make your voice heard: www.whatwomenwant.org
Kenya.
April 2018.
With reinvigorated family planning and maternal health efforts underway, including FP2020 and planning for the post-Millennium Development Goal era, it is critical that there is equitable participation of women, youth, and their communities in the design, delivery, and monitoring of reproductive and maternal health policies and programs. Social accountability mechanisms create meaningful links between citizens, service providers, and governments that can in turn lead to more responsive, accountable, and effective health systems. In Malawi, the government and CARE are currently implementing a Community Score Card at the district level to improve health outcomes and ensure rights. Are such social accountability efforts the answer to keeping rights at the center of our sexual, reproductive and maternal health efforts?
More: www.wilsoncenter.org/event/social-accountability-the-answ...
Evaluation is a critical part of any development programming. Rigorous evaluations identify the successes, failures, and gaps in a given project, accumulating lessons learned that hopefully lead to more effective programming. Breaking new ground through their small-scale, community-based, and multi-sectoral approach, population, health, and environment (PHE) programs require a rethinking of traditional evaluation methods. Join us in a discussion about the history of PHE program evaluations and the path forward with John Pielemeier, an independent consultant focused on design, evaluation, and management of international development programs and projects, Vik Mohan, medical director of Blue Ventures, and Roger-Mark De Souza, director of population, environmental security, and resilience at the Wilson Center.
Read more: www.wilsoncenter.org/event/make-it-count-evaluating-popul...
With reinvigorated family planning and maternal health efforts underway, including FP2020 and planning for the post-Millennium Development Goal era, it is critical that there is equitable participation of women, youth, and their communities in the design, delivery, and monitoring of reproductive and maternal health policies and programs. Social accountability mechanisms create meaningful links between citizens, service providers, and governments that can in turn lead to more responsive, accountable, and effective health systems. In Malawi, the government and CARE are currently implementing a Community Score Card at the district level to improve health outcomes and ensure rights. Are such social accountability efforts the answer to keeping rights at the center of our sexual, reproductive and maternal health efforts?
More: www.wilsoncenter.org/event/social-accountability-the-answ...
Rapid population growth can be a contributing factor to both greenhouse gas emissions and vulnerability to climate stresses. Early childbearing, high fertility rates, and short birth intervals are associated with poor maternal and child health outcomes as well as lower educational attainment and work force participation, which directly impede women’s ability to participate and invest in climate change adaptation. However, the positive benefits of voluntary family planning, either for emissions reductions or adaptation, have not figured prominently in climate policy discussions or those related to improving access to family planning.
To address this gap, the Population Reference Bureau and Worldwatch Institute formed an international Population Dynamics and Climate-Compatible Development Expert Working Group to identify policy opportunities to increase investment in family planning in climate-sensitive development initiatives. Join us for a presentation about the working group’s report and discussion with select working group members.
Read more: www.wilsoncenter.org/event/bridging-the-gap-conversation-...
Rapid population growth can be a contributing factor to both greenhouse gas emissions and vulnerability to climate stresses. Early childbearing, high fertility rates, and short birth intervals are associated with poor maternal and child health outcomes as well as lower educational attainment and work force participation, which directly impede women’s ability to participate and invest in climate change adaptation. However, the positive benefits of voluntary family planning, either for emissions reductions or adaptation, have not figured prominently in climate policy discussions or those related to improving access to family planning.
To address this gap, the Population Reference Bureau and Worldwatch Institute formed an international Population Dynamics and Climate-Compatible Development Expert Working Group to identify policy opportunities to increase investment in family planning in climate-sensitive development initiatives. Join us for a presentation about the working group’s report and discussion with select working group members.
Read more: www.wilsoncenter.org/event/bridging-the-gap-conversation-...
Evaluation is a critical part of any development programming. Rigorous evaluations identify the successes, failures, and gaps in a given project, accumulating lessons learned that hopefully lead to more effective programming. Breaking new ground through their small-scale, community-based, and multi-sectoral approach, population, health, and environment (PHE) programs require a rethinking of traditional evaluation methods. Join us in a discussion about the history of PHE program evaluations and the path forward with John Pielemeier, an independent consultant focused on design, evaluation, and management of international development programs and projects, Vik Mohan, medical director of Blue Ventures, and Roger-Mark De Souza, director of population, environmental security, and resilience at the Wilson Center.
Read more: www.wilsoncenter.org/event/make-it-count-evaluating-popul...
With the Millennium Development Goals coming to a close and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) under consideration, the international community has a unique opportunity to define the next priorities for global development. Coming on the heels of this year’s United Nations General Assembly meeting, a panel of three development experts discuss key issues that are underrepresented – or missing altogether – on the SDG agenda: climate change, peace and governance, and reproductive health.
Read more: www.wilsoncenter.org/event/three-great-ideas-werent-the-u...
On October 17, 2018, the International Women's Health Coalition (IWHC) and our grantee partner Mujer y Salud en Uruguay (MYSU) held a reception to discuss the rising threat of "conscience"-based denials in health care. The event took place at the International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics (FIGO) World Congress in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Caption: Monica Oguttu, executive director of IWHC grantee partner Kisumu Medical and Education Trust (KMET) in Kenya, speaks during the reception.
Photo: IWHC
With reinvigorated family planning and maternal health efforts underway, including FP2020 and planning for the post-Millennium Development Goal era, it is critical that there is equitable participation of women, youth, and their communities in the design, delivery, and monitoring of reproductive and maternal health policies and programs. Social accountability mechanisms create meaningful links between citizens, service providers, and governments that can in turn lead to more responsive, accountable, and effective health systems. In Malawi, the government and CARE are currently implementing a Community Score Card at the district level to improve health outcomes and ensure rights. Are such social accountability efforts the answer to keeping rights at the center of our sexual, reproductive and maternal health efforts?
More: www.wilsoncenter.org/event/social-accountability-the-answ...
With the Millennium Development Goals coming to a close and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) under consideration, the international community has a unique opportunity to define the next priorities for global development. Coming on the heels of this year’s United Nations General Assembly meeting, a panel of three development experts discuss key issues that are underrepresented – or missing altogether – on the SDG agenda: climate change, peace and governance, and reproductive health.
Read more: www.wilsoncenter.org/event/three-great-ideas-werent-the-u...
Evaluation is a critical part of any development programming. Rigorous evaluations identify the successes, failures, and gaps in a given project, accumulating lessons learned that hopefully lead to more effective programming. Breaking new ground through their small-scale, community-based, and multi-sectoral approach, population, health, and environment (PHE) programs require a rethinking of traditional evaluation methods. Join us in a discussion about the history of PHE program evaluations and the path forward with John Pielemeier, an independent consultant focused on design, evaluation, and management of international development programs and projects, Vik Mohan, medical director of Blue Ventures, and Roger-Mark De Souza, director of population, environmental security, and resilience at the Wilson Center.
Read more: www.wilsoncenter.org/event/make-it-count-evaluating-popul...
With reinvigorated family planning and maternal health efforts underway, including FP2020 and planning for the post-Millennium Development Goal era, it is critical that there is equitable participation of women, youth, and their communities in the design, delivery, and monitoring of reproductive and maternal health policies and programs. Social accountability mechanisms create meaningful links between citizens, service providers, and governments that can in turn lead to more responsive, accountable, and effective health systems. In Malawi, the government and CARE are currently implementing a Community Score Card at the district level to improve health outcomes and ensure rights. Are such social accountability efforts the answer to keeping rights at the center of our sexual, reproductive and maternal health efforts?
More: www.wilsoncenter.org/event/social-accountability-the-answ...
Pen Sopheak and Vy Sovanna, midwifes working with PSI Cambodia, promoting a local clinic, to be held the following day, providing birth control for rural women.
PSI (Population Services International) is working in this area to provide counselling and access to birth control to women as part of their reproductive health program.
PSI is a nonprofit organization based in Washington, D.C. that harnesses the vitality of the private sector to address the health problems of low-income and vulnerable populations in more than 60 developing countries. With programs in malaria, reproductive health, child survival, HIV and tuberculosis, PSI promotes products, services and healthy behavior that enable low-income and vulnerable people to lead healthier lives. Products and services are sold at subsidized prices rather than given away in order to motivate commercial sector involvement.
Kampong Speu, Cambodia. November 2008.
With the Millennium Development Goals coming to a close and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) under consideration, the international community has a unique opportunity to define the next priorities for global development. Coming on the heels of this year’s United Nations General Assembly meeting, a panel of three development experts discuss key issues that are underrepresented – or missing altogether – on the SDG agenda: climate change, peace and governance, and reproductive health.
Read more: www.wilsoncenter.org/event/three-great-ideas-werent-the-u...