Commitment title:

Act Now

Commitment description:

The issues in ICPD do affect the success and growth of women hence the need to immediately address them given their potential to trickle and expand from house hold, community and national levels.

Mode of engagement:
  • Policy and guidance
    encouragement of bye laws to be specifically focus on the target areas where they are no specific policies.
Commitment to be actioned in: Uganda
Submitted from: Uganda
Submitted by
Strengthening Hope and Resilience Empowerment (SHARE)
Thematic area
Uphold the right to sexual and reproductive health care in humanitarian and fragile contexts
Commitment category

(12) Ensuring that the basic humanitarian needs and rights of affected populations, especially that of girls and women, are addressed as critical components of responses to humanitarian and environmental crises, as well as fragile and post-crisis reconstruction contexts, through the provision of access to comprehensive sexual and reproductive health information, education and services, including access to safe abortion services to the full extent of the law, and post-abortion care, to significantly reduce maternal mortality and morbidity, sexual and gender-based violence and unplanned pregnancies under these conditions.