The Youth Coalition launched three new factsheets highlighting the linkages between young people's sexual and reproductive rights and the MDGs, as they relate to HIV, Maternal Health and Comprehensive Sexuality Education. Go to Youth Coalition homepage and access YC Fact sheets on Young People and the MDGs.

Making Aid Effectiveness Work for FP and Reproductive Health, PAI Working Paper

China's Foreign Aid Activities in Africa, Latin America and Southeast Asia

ESCAP meeting in Seoul

The meeting focused on "a supportive financial system and green growth for achieving MDGs in the AP region." See the reports here.

NGO Forum Small Grants Facility

Global Partners in Action: NGO Forum on Sexual and Reproductive Health and Development: Invest in Health, Rights and the Future

Berlin, Germany, 2 to 4 September 2009

To mark the 15 year anniversary of the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD), Global Partners in Action: NGO Forum for Sexual and Reproductive Health and Development is being held in Germany to strengthen NGOs working in partnership to advance sexual and reproductive health and rights for sustainable development in an uncertain and interdependent world.

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The World Bank has released their Reproductive Health Action Plan 2010-2015 set to help poor countries reduce high fertility rates and prevent widespread deaths of mothers and children. The Bank warned that family planning and other reproductive health programs vital to poor women had fallen off the development radars of many low-income countries, donor governments, and aid agencies. Read the Action Plan here.

Learning to Speak MDGs

The Youth Coalition’s popular publication Learning to Speak MDGs has been revised in time for the ten year review of the Millennium Development Goals!

A Measure of the Future

Family Planning International has just launched its newest resource. In collaboration with the Secretariat of the Pacific Community and Population Action International.

Contraceptive Security and Meeting Reproductive Health Needs In Southeast Asia

 

This synthesis report reviews the provision of contraceptive services and commodities in Southeast Asia, assessing progress in achieving contraceptive security and meeting the reproductive health needs of the region's population. The purpose is to systematize fragmented knowledge into an integrated evidence base for follow-up study, advocacy and action.