Welcome to the ICPD+15 Project Discussion Board!

 

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF POPULATION AND DEVELOPMENT (ICPD)+15

(ICPD+15)

From it’s inception The Asian-Pacific Resource and Research Centre for Women (ARROW) has been concerned about the state of women’s Sexual and Reproductive Health Rights (SRHR) all over the region, and is fully committed to promoting and protecting women’s health rights and needs, predominantly in the area of women’s SRHR.

The 1994 ICPD PROGRAMME OF ACTION called for the achievement by 2015 of universal access to a package of basic reproductive health services and for specific measures to foster human development, with particular attention to women. ARROW’s commitment to the goals and the ideals of ICPD is clearly evident by the many years that the organisation has been monitoring governments in the region and the progress to date of the commitments made in the ICPD Programme of Action.

The ICPD+15 monitoring and advocacy project is a step further towards developing a systematic and periodic evidence-based research and monitoring system to chart national and regional progress towards fifteen years of ICPD implementation. The long term goal of this project is to continue to an improved Sexual and Reproductive Health Rights (SRHR) policy environment within the 12 project countries and the achievement of comprehensive, affordable and gender sensitive SRHR, especially for marginalised women and girls. The short term project objective is to build capacities of a minimum of 12 national level partners, to generate evidence and publish a final regional report that monitors national-level progress of sexual and reproductive health policies and programmes, by December 2009.

This project is currently supported by FORD Foundation and OXFAM Novib.