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Increasing & improved funding for menstrual health and hygiene

Members of the MHH coalition - comprised of key organisations working in research, programming and advocacy around MHH - will use their advocating power to strengthening funding for menstrual health research, programming and data collection and we will provide analysis and regularly track donor and domestic funding to support accountability towards this commitment.

The target is that by 2025, 30 countries are committing resources towards MHM.
Only a few years ago, the issue...

(7) Increasing international financing for the full, effective and accelerated implementation of the ICPD Programme of Action, to complement and catalyze domestic financing, in particular of sexual and reproductive health programmes, and other supportive measures and interventions that promote gender equality and girls’ and women’s empowerment.

Mode of engagement:

• Budgetary and financial

Contributing to the implementation of the reproductive health strategy through a range of nationwide actions

Committed to ensure availability and accessibility of SRHR services (including family planning and contraceptives) for those who are left behind (vulnerable and marginalized groups of the population) by means of raising public awareness on reproductive health techniques and community-based services, as well as strengthening national institutional capacities by 2025.

Promoting awareness to overcome the phenomena of child marriage

Committed to implement systematic awareness & advocacy campaigns and actions to ensure society’s sensibility on the topic of child marriage and its consequences with the involvement of all relevant stakeholders (community, FBOs, education institutions etc.) by 2022.

Alignment of the national legal and policy framework with the international standards

Committed for strengthening measures taken against gender-based discrimination and violence to adapt National Action Plan on GBV prevention and response (2019-2023) and National Action Plan on gender equality (2020-2024) in the Republic of Azerbaijan.

CHILD MARRIAGE AND TEENAGE PREGNANCY PREVENTION PROGRAM

Community and School outreaches will be held with a major focus of creating awareness and sensitizing community members on the dangers of child marriage and engaging them in participatory processes to have them commit and act towards ending the practice in their communities.

The school outreaches will focus on creating awareness, engaging teachers in ensuring that schools are free of especially sexual violence and abuse to their students, and empowering students to be able to have...

(5) (a) Zero sexual and gender-based violence and harmful practices, including zero child, early and forced marriage, as well as zero female genital mutilation; and (b) Elimination of all forms of discrimination against all women and girls, in order to realize all individuals’ full socio-economic potential.

Mode of engagement:

• Programmatic action

Improve girls’ wellbeing and asserts that girls should have a voice, choice, and agency when it comes to deciding about when and whom to marry.

The MTBA members, Save the Children Netherlands, Oxfam Novib, Simavi, Population Council and local partners bring together complementary knowledge, skills, and experience to implement and evaluate programmes to delay marriage in a variety of contexts. MTBA draws from a widespread network, including established country offices, memberships, and long-term collaboration with strong local partners to deliver meaningful engagement with girls and communities.

The MTBA approach works to...

(5) (a) Zero sexual and gender-based violence and harmful practices, including zero child, early and forced marriage, as well as zero female genital mutilation; and (b) Elimination of all forms of discrimination against all women and girls, in order to realize all individuals’ full socio-economic potential.

Mode of engagement:

• Programmatic action

Africa Health Budget Network commits to budget advocacy and tracking of financial commitments in Africa for ICPD PoA

The Africa Health Budget Network (AHBN) is fully committed to intensify budget advocacy and engaging with Parliamentarians including tracking of financial commitments made by African Heads of State to ensure full implementation the ICPD Programme of Action and to meet the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030. AHBN will achieve that via working with relevant regional and countries’ civil society mechanisms and advocating to relevant regional intergovernmental bodies, analyzing countries’...

(1)  Intensify our efforts for the full, effective and accelerated implementation and funding of the ICPD Programme of Action, Key Actions for the Further Implementation of the Programme of Action of the ICPD, the outcomes of its reviews, and Agenda 2030 for Sustainable Development.

Mode of engagement:

• Change or creation of legislation

Reaching 250,000 skilled birth attendants with the Safe Delivery App

In order to reach the target of ending all preventable maternal deaths by 2030 there is a need for increased focus on quality of care. Today more women die due to poor quality of care than lack of care. Up to 80% of maternal deaths can be prevented if the mother has access to skilled care during pregnancy and childbirth.

Together with Universities of Copenhagen and Southern Denmark, Maternity Foundation has developed the Safe Delivery App, an evidence-based mobile application that...

(3) Zero preventable maternal deaths and maternal morbidities, such as obstetric fistulas, by, inter alia, integrating a comprehensive package of sexual and reproductive health interventions, including access to safe abortion to the full extent of the law, measures for preventing and avoiding unsafe abortions, and for the provision of post-abortion care, into national UHC strategies, policies and programmes, and to protect and ensure all individuals’ right to bodily integrity, autonomy and reproductive rights, and to provide access to essential services in support of these rights.

Mode of engagement:

• Programmatic action

Zero unmet need for family planning information and services and universal availability of quality affordable and safe modem contraceptives

To ensure an effective supply chain systems by improving service delivery, management information system that provides reliable data, last mile distribution and tracking of RH commodities; family planning outreach and community-based distribution of modern family planning commodities; designing and implementing an integrated demand-generation strategy for maternal health and family planning; and capacity building of the ministry of health and other sectoral actors to deliver an integrated...

(2) Zero unmet need for family planning information and services, and universal availability of quality, affordable and safe modern contraceptives.

Modes of engagement:

• Budgetary and financial
• Policy and guidance

My Country. My responsibility

We commit to creating a committed community of registered and active (online and offline) at least 50 000 young people before April 30, 2019. We will reach these young people with engaging social media content and through media like local newspapers and radio; to empower them with information on education, entrepreneurship, personal development, leadership and sexual reproductive health and rights. This should result in the formation of at least 20 academic support and mentoring groups and...

(8) Investing in the education, employment opportunities, health, including family planning and sexual and reproductive health services, of adolescents and youth, especially girls, so as to fully harness the promises of the demographic dividend.

Mode of engagement:

• Programmatic action