Commitment title:

Reduction of maternal morbidity and mortality from unsafe abortion by 2025

Commitment description:

Reproductive and maternal health consortium, commit to playing a significant role in reducing maternal morbidity and mortality caused by unsafe abortion. We will provide advocacy to the community, we will empower service providers by training them on safe methods. We will push in policy change to include women rights to decide on their reproductive health needs.

Mode of engagement:
  • Programmatic action
    We will advocate for unlimited flow of information on SRHR to all. Information is power and most of those who seek for unsafe abortion services, do so because they lack knowledge and information from where this services can be sought.
Commitment to be actioned in: global
Submitted from: Kenya
Submitted by
Reproductive and Maternal Health Consortium
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.