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THEME 3: - DAY 3
-  18 October 2019 -
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SESSION: CRITICAL ENGAGEMENT WITH THE STATE ON
​SRH RIGHTS – PUSHING THE BOUNDARIES OF CURRENT PRACTICE


Accountability practice in a deeply contested field like sexual and reproductive health rights must engage with various levels of the state, from policy and politics, to health facilities at the frontline of health service provision.  Mainstream social accountability work in the field of maternal and reproductive health tends comprise of bounded interventions focussed on enforcing accountability within a predetermined framework of. The fall out is that certain issues tend to be neglected – such as the issue of increasing disrespect, abuse and coercive treatment of women during maternity care, the tension between population control and access to contraception, abortion rights, menstrual hygiene management, the right to express ones gender and sexual identity and so on. This session will discuss these issues as well as critically evaluate tools such as score cards, committees, budget tracking, identify challenges and ways forward.
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