THEME 3: - DAY 2
-  17 October 2019 -
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SESSION: GLOBAL ACTORS AND THEIR IMPACT ON SRH ACCOUNTABILITY – NEGOTIATING THE POWER OF DONORS, GLOBAL HEALTH INITIATIVES AND GLOBAL ACCOUNTABILITY MECHANISMS

Maternal Health and subsequently Family Planning have emerged as important agendas of global health programming over the past two decades. Multiple systems for monitoring progress were established following the MDGs through mechanisms like the Partnership on Maternal Neonatal and Child Health (PMNCH) headquartered in WHO, the WHO Commission on Information and Accountability (CoIA) on Women and Children’s Health and the UN sponsored movement Every woman Every child. The SDGs have introduced new targets which are similarly being monitored at a global level. In addition to this, there remains the United Nations Universal Periodic Review through which countries’ human rights records are reviewed. Many international agencies, bilateral donors and private philanthropies are providing funds and other support to governments to achieve the set targets. This session will hear from experiences of practitioners who seek to link local community realities with these global accountability mechanisms, the strategies that they adopt and the inherent challenges therein.   ​​Read more...