ReProductive Aid: Global video conference on RH in the new aid architecture, 29 October, 2008
With the support of WHO and the distinguished, international ReProductive Aid Steering Committee, DSW convened a successful global video conference with sites in Belgium, Ethiopia, Switzerland, Thailand, Uganda and the UK. The event linked some 80 RH professionals, parliamentarians, ministry officials and civil society representatives to share their knowledge, experience and personal insights on how to increase funding for reproductive health in the new aid architecture.
Excellent keynote speeches were contributed by Dr. Eckhard Deutscher, Chair of the OECD’s Development Assistance Committee; Dr. Christoph Benn, Director, Partnership, Communication and Resource Mobilization for the GFATM and Dr. Gill Greer, Director General of IPPF. Regional speakers included representatives of USAID, UNFPA, the David and Lucille Packard Foundation, the Asian Forum for Parliamentarians in Population and Development, the Uganda Regional Director of Partners for Population and Development, and a Member of the Uganda Parliament.
The video conference was a key part of the global online community called ReProductive Aid, which seeks to engage civil society in a dialogue about how to increase funding for reproductive health services in the new aid archictecture.
To view this 100 minute video conference, please click here.
To join or for more information on ReProductive Aid, click here!
DSW presents advocacy actions to Asian parliamentarians in Mongolia. 22-24 September, 2008
"Financing Millennium Development Goals with a focus on health and gender" was the theme of the 6th Asian women parliamentarians’ and ministers’ conference. Participants from 21 countries in the Asia and Pacific region gathered in Ulaanbaatar, the capital of Mongolia, to discuss. DSW highlighted the role of parliamentarians to monitor their country’s funding commitments to MDGs as well as related expenditures in the national budget. In this context it is crucial that parliamentarians receive sufficient information from their respective governments. These and other recommendations were taken up in the commitment statement that arose from this important conference.
The statement can be found soon at http://www.afppd.org/
DSW makes presentation on climate change, malaria and SRH. 3 October, 2008 During the EuroNGOS conference in Lyon on “The Interface between Population, Environment and Poverty Alleviation”, DSW presented at the “speakers corner” the linkages between climate change, malaria and SRH. DSW exposed with a detailed presentation the clear and strong linkages between climate change HIV/AIDS and malaria as well as the ways forward to integrate the policies and programmes both at the EU level and in the field.
