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Maternal Health & Early Childhood development

After a period of interfacing with certain rural communities and realizing how much needed to be done to help them gain access to quality healthcare services and increase their quality of life, Communal Health Support Scheme was birthed to see this through. The organization, through the help of its volunteers, seeks to improve, support and strengthen health-related systems by providing quality outreach services for communities in Africa that are lacking especially for the children and women...

(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.

Mode of engagement:

• Programmatic action

Reproductive Health in Egypt

1. Increase 5% annual investments and funding allocation in national and civil society programs on sexual and reproductive health, information and education programs which specifically address unmet contraceptive needs
2. Integrate comprehensive education on sexual and reproductive health into the national educational curricula and ensure the necessary resources and training for its full and effective implementation, in accordance with the national Strategy for Population and...

(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:

• Change or creation of legislation

Commitment to prevention and Response of FGM/c and GBV/CP cases in Somalia

At TIDES, we believe that everyone should be able to live a life of dignity.We believe that women and girls have the power to make change happen and that they should be at the center of our response,we should acess the culturally appropriate solutions to the problem of gender-based violence. Our vision aligns with the ICPD25 & Somalia +25 commitments towards ending gender-based violence and harmful practices.We are therefore pledging an amount of U.S $15.4 million over the next five...

(5) (a) Zero sexual and gender-based violence and harmful practices, including zero child, early and forced marriage, as well as zero female genital mutilation; and (b) Elimination of all forms of discrimination against all women and girls, in order to realize all individuals’ full socio-economic potential.

Mode of engagement:

• Programmatic action

WBFA Commitment to Accelerating the Promise of ICPD

WBFA commits to a programme of advocacy and actions on a global, and sub-national scale to accelerate progress towards the ICPD agenda of ending preventable maternal deaths, unmet needs for family planning, and gender-based violence and harmful practises. To that end, WBFA will seek to further mobilise private, philanthropic, and multi-sector stakeholders towards this goal, and will continue to monitor and evaluate progress toward commitments already made as a result of our organisational...

(1)  Intensify our efforts for the full, effective and accelerated implementation and funding of the ICPD Programme of Action, Key Actions for the Further Implementation of the Programme of Action of the ICPD, the outcomes of its reviews, and Agenda 2030 for Sustainable Development.

Modes of engagement:

• Policy and guidance
• Programmatic action

Actualizing and Sustaining the Promise of ICPD and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development in the Lives of Every Filipino

The Philippines is proud of the significant milestones it has achieved in pursuing the objectives of the ICPD and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development in the country. The socio-economic as well as the reproductive health conditions of Filipinos improved through our enabling policies on responsible parenthood, reproductive health, and just recently, the universal health care law. To sustainably actualize the ICPD and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development in the lives of each...

(1)  Intensify our efforts for the full, effective and accelerated implementation and funding of the ICPD Programme of Action, Key Actions for the Further Implementation of the Programme of Action of the ICPD, the outcomes of its reviews, and Agenda 2030 for Sustainable Development.

Modes of engagement:

• Budgetary and financial
• Change or creation of legislation
• Policy and guidance
• Programmatic action

Women, youth and persons with disabilities

We commit to:
Promote woman-centred economic development.
Mainstream gender, youth and disability issues in programmes.
Expand government spend on women, youth and persons with disabilities through preferential procurement.
Develop and implement programmes to expand access to and ownership of land by women, youth and persons with disabilities.
Creating a conducive environment to support industrialization and employment of youth and women owned enterprises.

We commit to drive uptake for contraceptive by leveraging digital platforms to disseminate information on contraceptives.

We commit to increase the global numbers of women who have access to contraceptives by 2030.We shall
1. Leverage the use of digital technology to reach more women with comprehensive, easy to understand and globally representative information on contraceptives.
2. Link women to information on affordable, accessible and reliable family planning and contraceptive options.

Access to employment and business opportunities

We commit to:
Broad-based Black Economic Empowerment & review of the financial sector to encourage equity.
Sustainable land reform through redistribution and tenure reform.
Improve representation on the designated groups across occupational level.
Develop and implement programmes to expand access to finance, incentives and opportunities for women, youth and persons with disabilities-led and owned businesses

Policy, Law and Programmes

We commit to:
Ensure that all laws and policies, programmes and interventions are adequately planned, costed and resourced in line within a gender- responsive planning, budgeting and monitoring evaluation framework, across government.
Retain, resource, strengthen and reinvigorate the institutional mechanisms including the national gender machinery.
Continuously strengthen the information and research base to develop effective, coordinated evidence- based policy and...

(1)  Intensify our efforts for the full, effective and accelerated implementation and funding of the ICPD Programme of Action, Key Actions for the Further Implementation of the Programme of Action of the ICPD, the outcomes of its reviews, and Agenda 2030 for Sustainable Development.

Predictable, unearmarked support to UNFPA

The Belgian development cooperation commits to continue its policy of contributing to the general resources of its multilateral partner organizations involved in implementing the Cairo Programme of Action and especially to UNFPA , as its main partner for sexual and reproductive health and rights.

This predictable, multi-year, unearmarked funding should help strengthen UNFPA's work for the implementation of the Cairo Program of Action.