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YOUTH ACTION MOVEMENT GHANA COMMITMENT STATEMENT ON THE ICPD+25

We, the Youth Wing of Planned Parenthood Association of Ghana herein referred to as the Youth Action Movement- Ghana (YAM-GH), acting and advocating on behalf of young people in Ghana in matters concerning their Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights call on governments and other stakeholders in Ghana to:

1. Re commit to the fundamental precepts of the ICPD PoA in advancing the health of women and children.
2. Commit adequate funding in ensuring Universal Health Coverage...
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   (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.

   Mode of engagement:

   • Programmatic action

Financial contribution

In addition, and specifically with regard to the 25th anniversary of the International Conference on Population and Development, the Luxembourg Development Cooperation allocates an additional financial contribution of 50.000 EUR to the organization of the Nairobi conference. This amount will be complemented by reprogramming the total amount remaining from past programmes and projects of 58.612,25 USD, thus allocating a total additional contribution of more than 100.000 EUR to the...

(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

Financing modalities

Complementing grant financing, Luxembourg’s Development Cooperation will flexibly apply a diversified and innovative set of financing instruments and modalities to respond to specific country needs and thematic areas, including through the leveraging of partnerships with Multilateral Development Banks and the private sector, and to support blended finance instruments such as guarantees and risk mitigation instruments. This will include an increased focus on impact investing, notably through...

(6) Using national budget processes, including gender budgeting and auditing, increasing domestic financing and exploring new, participatory and innovative financing instruments and structures to ensure full, effective and accelerated implementation of the ICPD Programme of Action.

Mode of engagement:

• Policy and guidance

ODA

Maintaining a target of Official Development Assistance (ODA) as a share of gross national income (GNI) of 1%, with a focus on Least Developed Countries (LDCs). Luxembourg will continue to maintain its untied aid while keeping both international climate finance and in-donor refugees’ costs additional to ODA;

Humanitarian action

1. Preventing and responding to sexual and gender-based violence by applying the “Leave No One Behind” principle and follow a needs-based approach, while paying special attention to the “forgotten” and underfunded crises, and by continuing to provide support to the Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF) and humanitarian Country Based Pooled Funds (CBPF).

Investing in women and girls to ensure no one is left behind

Fighting poverty and boosting shared prosperity are the World Bank’s twin goals.
One of the best ways to fight poverty is by investing in human development — to ensure that all children reach their full potential. 

To make the most of human capital investments, we must empower girls and women, together with boys, men and communities. Investing in girls and women supports a virtuous cycle: healthier, better-educated mothers have healthier, better-educated families. That’s why the...

(9) Building peaceful, just and inclusive societies, where no one is left behind, where all, irrespective of race, colour, religion, sex, age, disability, language, ethnic origin, sexual orientation and gender identity or expression, feel valued and are able to shape their own destiny and contribute to the prosperity of their societies.

Comprehensive approach to SRH

Integrating a comprehensive approach of the essential sexual and reproductive health package, and protecting and ensuring every individuals’ right to bodily integrity and autonomy, and providing access to essential services in support of this right.

Inclusive quality health services

1. Ensuring everybody has access to affordable quality health services and treatments, including primary health care, family planning information and services, by targeting in particular key and vulnerable populations, including adolescent girls and young women, gay men and other men who have sex with men, sex workers of all genders, people who use drugs, transgender people, people living with HIV;
2. Supporting and developing health systems that are inclusive, that recognize the...
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   (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

HR and SDG3

Committing to implement international human rights law on the right to the highest attainable standard of health and SDG3 “Good Health and Well-Being” for all. Luxembourg pledges to respect, protect, promote and fulfil the rights of key and vulnerable populations with a specific focus on women and girls;

Western HIV/AIDS Network will implement SRHR -Program to save women and girls lives.

Kenya has  unacceptably high maternal death at 488  per 100,000 live births (with some regions reporting MMRs of 1,000/100,000 live births) in 2008/9, an increase from 414/100,000 in 2003, 590/100,000 in 1998. Most maternal deaths are due to causes directly related to pregnancy and child-birth unsafe abortion and obstetric complications such as severe bleeding, infection, hypertensive disorders, and obstructed labor. Others are due to causes such as malaria, diabetes, hepatitis, and anaemia...

(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.

Modes of engagement:

• Budgetary and financial
• Programmatic action