No risk, no gain: invest in women and girls by funding advocacy, organizing, litigation and work to shift culture
Abstract: The new development framework aspires to merge long-term hopes for environmental, political and financial sustainability with international poverty eradication goals. Central to this agenda is the promotion and protection of the human rights of women and girls. Yet national mechanisms, donors and international development agencies often do not fully tackle these issues or confront the accompanying politically sensitive, complex issues intermingling religion, socioeconomic status, social, cultural and family life. The increasing reliance on private investment may further weaken a women’s rights approach. The pro...
Source: Reproductive Health Matters - November 1, 2013 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Theresa McGovern Source Type: research
Embedding sexual and reproductive health and rights in a transformational development framework: lessons learned from the MDG targets and indicators
Abstract: This paper explores the intended and unintended consequences of the selection of MDG 5 as a global goal, together with its respective targets and indicators, and places what happened to MDG 5, and sexual and reproductive health and rights more broadly, into the context of the development model that was encoded in the MDGs. Over the last decade, as the MDGs increasingly took centre stage in development and their use evolved, they were inappropriately converted from global goals into national planning targets. This conversion was particularly detrimental in the case of MDG 5. It not only created a narrowing in term...
Source: Reproductive Health Matters - November 1, 2013 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Alicia Ely Yamin, Vanessa M Boulanger Source Type: research
Ensuring the inclusion of sexual and reproductive health and rights under a sustainable development goal on health in the post-2015 human rights framework for development
Abstract: Since the 1994 International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) in Cairo placed reproductive health and rights firmly on the international agenda, civil society and other advocates have worked ceaselessly to ensure that they remain central to women’s empowerment and have taken all opportunities to expand the framework to include sexual health and rights. When the development process changed with the introduction of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in 2000, sexual and reproductive health and rights were excluded, and only in 2007 was universal access to reproductive health added back in. In 2...
Source: Reproductive Health Matters - November 1, 2013 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Marianne Haslegrave Source Type: research
Universal health coverage: necessary but not sufficient
Abstract: In this article, we highlight key considerations for better addressing sexual and reproductive health and rights issues within universal health coverage (UHC), particularly in the context of the post-2015 sustainable development agenda. We look at UHC as a health, development and health care financing issue, and its history. We discuss its limitations as currently understood from a human rights perspective, and show why structural barriers to health and the legal and policy environment, which are essential to health (particularly to sexual and reproductive health and rights), require critical consideration in cur...
Source: Reproductive Health Matters - November 1, 2013 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Susana T Fried, Atif Khurshid, Dudley Tarlton, Douglas Webb, Sonia Gloss, Claudia Paz, Tamara Stanley Source Type: research
Sustainable development goals for global health: facilitating good governance in a complex environment
This article argues that potential SDGs should: treat stakeholders, like states, business and civil society actors, as agents on different aggregate levels of networks; incorporate good governance processes that facilitate early involvement of relevant resources, as well as equitable participation, consultative processes, and regular policy and programme implementation reviews; anchor adoption and enforcement of such rules to democratic processes in accountable organizations; and include comprehensive systems evaluations, including procedural indicators. A global framework convention for health could be a suitable instrume...
Source: Reproductive Health Matters - November 1, 2013 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Just Haffeld Source Type: research
The right to health in the post-2015 development paradigm
The role of human rights norms and principles in achieving developmental goals is now recognized in many influential international declarations and resolutions. With respect to women’s health, the 1994 International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) and the 1995 Beijing Platform for Action were instrumental in shifting the traditional focus from a population-centric approach to one that envisioned an expansive developmental agenda that enshrined gender equality and sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) as critical aspects. Many of the strides made in this direction were, however, undone when the ...
Source: Reproductive Health Matters - November 1, 2013 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Anand Grover Source Type: research
Meeting targets or saving lives: maternal health policy and Millennium Development Goal 5 in Nicaragua
Abstract: In support of maternal health, disease-specific and target-oriented global policy initiatives, such as in Millennium Development Goal 5, have led to a prioritisation of narrow indicators at the expense of more comprehensive approaches. In line with global policy, Nicaragua has made skilled attendants and institutionalised delivery central to its efforts to achieving MDG5 on maternal health. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in Nicaragua, involving participant observation and interviews with hospital and community health workers, and women and their families, this paper critically discusses how target-oriented mat...
Source: Reproductive Health Matters - November 1, 2013 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Birgit Kvernflaten Source Type: research
Bookshelf: Breaking through the development silos: sexual and reproductive health and rights, Millennium Development Goals and gender equity – experiences from Mexico, India and Nigeria
The report on which this paper is based was undertaken by DAWN as part of its contribution to the Millennium Development Goals review process with links to DAWN’s analysis and advocacy on sexual and reproductive health and rights. This is a slightly condensed version of the overview of the report, which describes in-depth research undertaken in Mexico, India and Nigeria in 2008–2010. (Source: Reproductive Health Matters)
Source: Reproductive Health Matters - November 1, 2013 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Bhavya Reddy, Gita Sen Source Type: research
Sexual and reproductive health and rights: the next 20 years: Keynote address, ICPD beyond 2014: International Conference on Human Rights 7–10 July 2013, Netherlands
Thank you for your warm welcome. And let me say a special ‘thank you’ to our hosts, the Government of the Netherlands, whose strong leadership and warm participation has been such a strong and lasting feature of the last 20 years. (Source: Reproductive Health Matters)
Source: Reproductive Health Matters - November 1, 2013 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Nafis Sadik Source Type: research
A new development paradigm post-2015, a comprehensive goal for health that includes sexual and reproductive health and rights, and another for gender equality
“These are our bottom lines… We are counting on all governments to have the courage to champion the ‘controversial’ issues by addressing the difficult realities, many of which are related to the root causes of inequalities… 1. Keep your Promises. 2. Champion our Sexual Rights. 3. We Demand Economic Justice. 4. Leave us a Healthy Planet. 5. We are Stakeholders, not a Target Group.” (Post-2015 Consultation Youth Statement, October 2013) (Source: Reproductive Health Matters)
Source: Reproductive Health Matters - November 1, 2013 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Marge Berer Source Type: research
Pacific Youth: Their Rights, Our Future: Report of an Open Hearing on Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health in the Pacific: by New Zealand Parliamentarians' Group on Population and Development November 2012, www.fpi.org.nz/what_we_do/advocacy/parliamentary_group/nzppd_resources/report_pacific_youth_their_rights_our_future
On 11 June 2012, the New Zealand Parliamentarians' Group on Population and Development held an Open Hearing on ‘Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights in the Pacific’. Modelled like a select committee, its purpose was to increase understanding of, support for, and investment in adolescent sexual and reproductive health and rights in the Pacific. Written submissions were received from a wide range of stakeholders, twelve of whom were selected to submit orally at the Open Hearing. (Source: Reproductive Health Matters)
Source: Reproductive Health Matters - May 21, 2013 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: research
Making it Real: Sexual Health Communication for Young People Living with Disadvantage: Deborah Keys, Doreen Rosenthal, Henrietta Williams, Shelley Mallett, Lynne Jordan, Dot Henning Melbourne School of Public Health, University of Melbourne, and Family Planning Victoria, Australia, 2008 ISBN 9780734039675
The Making it Real research aimed to identify best strategies in STI communication for marginalised young people and to provide an evidence base for the development of appropriately targeted STI communication strategies for these young people. The project sought: (Source: Reproductive Health Matters)
Source: Reproductive Health Matters - May 21, 2013 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: research
Menstrual Hygiene Matters: a resource for improving menstrual hygiene around the world: by Sarah House, Thérèse Mahon, Sue Cavill Co-published by WaterAid and 17 other organisations, 2012 www.wateraid.org/mhm
This comprehensive, peer-reviewed handbook presents practical guidance on how to address menstrual hygiene within a range of water and sanitation, health and education programmes. It builds on detailed research to find out what issues women and girls face and how these are being addressed in many developing countries. The handbook focuses on practical examples, drawing on what is already being implemented in different contexts to encourage replication. It contains extensive training resources and ideas. The text below is taken from the Modules 1 and 2. (Source: Reproductive Health Matters)
Source: Reproductive Health Matters - May 21, 2013 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: research
Erica Royston
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Source: Reproductive Health Matters - May 21, 2013 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: research
“One Billion Rising” at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health: a reflection
This article is a reflection on that experience and the broader role that public health students can play in the fight against GBV. (Source: Reproductive Health Matters)
Source: Reproductive Health Matters - May 21, 2013 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Casey Branchini, Veena Sriram, Anushree Ray, Kerry Scott, Anita Thurakal Source Type: research
