Future Africa Call to Action, Nairobi Commitment Version
Commitment description:We, representatives of the community dedicated to fulfilment of the ICPD Programme of Action, met in Pretoria, South Africa, 26-28 August 2019, and agreed on the Future Africa Call to Action on Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights, Gender and Climate Change Resilience (http://climatechangesrhr.info/). We call on stakeholders around the world to recognize the centrality of solutions driven by and supporting women and girls, young people and marginalized groups, who are already bearing enormous burdens of climate change and environmental degradation.
We commit to integrate sexual & reproductive health and rights, gender equality, and population and development into climate adaptation actions to achieve resilience to climate change and long term demographic, economic and environmental dividends from a healthy, educated, employed, empowered and adaptive population. We will leave no one behind, realizing the rights and aspirations of young people, key populations, indigenous peoples, disabled persons and other marginalized groups as part of climate adaptation.
We commit to strengthen the capacity of health systems to protect and improve population health in an unstable and changing climate. We commit to meet the sexual and reproductive health rights and needs of those impacted, displaced and at risk of climate crises, including protection, prevention and response to gender-based violence. We will ensure that climate-related vulnerability assessments take into account sexual and reproductive health and gender-based violence risks and protective measures and are informed by disaggregated population data.
To deliver these objectives, we will create diverse partnerships that promote cross sectoral approaches and will work to integrate SRHR and gender into climate finance mechanisms. We call on donors and development partners to increase funding for climate adaptation and resilience, explicitly supporting sexual & reproductive health and rights and gender equality
Modes of engagement:
- Policy and guidanceIntegration of sexual and reproductive health and rights and gender equality in national adaptation plans and other climate change policies
- Programmatic actionScale up of successful programmes on SRHR, health system strengthening, emergency response, vulnerability assessment and youth empowerment for climate resilience
Uphold the right to sexual and reproductive health care in humanitarian and fragile contexts(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.
