Summary of the one-day PRE-CSO Meeting on Global Financing Facility
This document gives a brief overview of the Pre-CSO Meeting on the GFF in Nairobi, Kenya, on November 16-18th, 2015. It states outcomes of the meeting, lessons learned, and next steps to further CSO engagement to achieve the best results.
Type: Resources
Category: Civil Society
Letter GFF accountability CSO participation 2015
This letter addresses the previous World Bank President and GFF Investors Group, and voices concerns about the GFF’s commitment to ensure rights-based and impactful investments in sexual and reproductive health in the country implementation plans and subsequent service delivery. It specifically mentions CSO involvement, particularly at the country level, and the mechanisms in place to […]
Type: Resources
Category: Civil Society, Sexual and Reproductive Health & Rights
Accountability and Advocacy Require a United Front: the Case of the AMHiN Coalition in Nigeria
This document highlights how the creation of the Accountability for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health in Nigeria (AMNHiN), a CSO Coalition, has strengthened accountability for maternal, newborn, and child health in Nigeria in very practical ways, and has influenced the health priorities of the President’s Transition Committee in the wake of the March 2015 elections. […]
Type: Resources
Category: Civil Society, Maternal and Child Health
An Inclusive Accountability Forum Uses Evidence to Influence Progress in Jigawa, Nigeria
This case study describes how the Nigeria country team of MamaYe!, an organization focused on maternal and newborn health, facilitated the creation of a state-level evidence-based accountability mechanism in Jigawa state: the Jigawa state Maternal, Newborn and Child Health Accountability Forum (JiMAF).This brought together many stakeholders, including CSO networks, the media, the private sector, and […]
Type: Resources
Category: Civil Society, Maternal and Child Health, Private Sector
Accountability in the 2015 Global Strategy for Women’s, Children’s and Adolescents’ Health
In this piece Julian Schweitzer, senior fellow at Results for Develpment Institute, describes the steps taken to ensure accountability in the 2015 Global Strategy and why it is important to success. His four key messages are: (1) We need a strong, inclusive, transparent, rights based and independent accountability process, based on experience implementing health aspects […]
Type: Resources
Category: Adolescent Health, Civil Registration and Vital Statistics (CRVS), Civil Society, Maternal and Child Health
Global Financing Facility Country Consultations Fact Sheet: Lessons Learned from GFF Front Runner Countries- Kenya and Tanzania
This briefing paper aims to share lessons learned for national advocates during the GFF country-level process in Kenya and Tanzania. It aims to increase the knowledge and awareness of national advocates on key policy issues, and identifies service gaps advocates may want to address in GFF investment frameworks.
Type: Resources
Category: Civil Society, Health Financing
A Promise Renewed: Reproductive Maternal, Newborn and Child Health Sharpened Plan for Uganda
Uganda has developed this evidence-based country plan to address the slow progress on MDG 4&5 targets. The plan examines why the country is making slow progress in attaining the targets; reviews the maternal, newborn and child mortality and morbidity situation in Uganda; sets an agenda for how to accelerate progress; establishes the time horizon for […]
Type: Resources
Category: Civil Society, Family Planning & Contraception, HIV/AIDS, Maternal and Child Health, Nutrition, Private Sector