EAST AFRICAN COMMUNITY CIVIL SOCIETY COMMITMENT STATEMENT
Commitment description:EAST AFRICAN COMMUNITY CIVIL SOCIETY COMMITMENT STATEMENT At the CS Pre EAC RMNCAH, HIV, TB and STIs Managers Consultative Meeting Background We, civil society representatives in our diversity from across East Africa, welcome the 25th anniversary of 1CPD Believing that ICPDs implementation remains critical to attain sustainable development. We therefore call on member states to commit to the following to: 1. Intensify our efforts for the full, effective and accelerated implementation and funding of the ICPD Programme In order to: • Achieve universal access to sexual and reproductive health as a part of universal health coverage (UHC), by committing to strive for 2. Zero unmet need for family planning information and services, including affordable and safe modern contraceptives. 3. Integration of SRHR services into HIV programs. • Address gender-based violence and the harmful practices of child, early and forced marriages and female genital mutilation, by committing to strive for 4. Avoid gender-based violence, early and forced marriage to prevent HIV among adolescent girls and young women and Female Genital Mutilation. 5. Mobilize the required financing to finish the ICPD Programme of Action and sustain the gains already made, by 6. Increasing domestic financing to ensure full and effective implementation of the ICPD Programme of Action. Draw on demographic diversity to drive economic growth and achieve sustainable development, by:- 7. Investing in adolescents’ and youth’s education and SRH Services. 8. Investing in digital health innovations for timely and disaggregated data. 9. To ensure participation of young people on their own matters affairs (“nothing about us, without us”). • Uphold the right to sexual and reproductive health care in humanitarian and fragile contexts, by 10. Ensuring the basic humanitarian needs of affected populations is addressed.
Mode of engagement:
- Programmatic actionCivil society representatives in our diversity from across East Africa has played key role in contributing to the implementation of ICPD. The implementation must consider Adolescent Girls and Young Women (AGYW), PWDs, PLHIV with out discrimination.
Achieve universal access to sexual and reproductive health as a part of universal health coverage (UHC)(4) Access for all adolescents and youth, especially girls, to comprehensive and age-responsive information, education and adolescent-friendly comprehensive, quality and timely services to be able to make free and informed decisions and choices about their sexuality and reproductive lives, to adequately protect themselves from unintended pregnancies, all forms of sexual and gender-based violence and harmful practices, sexually transmitted infections, including HIV/AIDS, to facilitate a safe transition into adulthood.
