From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Ruggiero, Mrs. Ana Lucia (WDC)</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ruglucia@paho.org">ruglucia@paho.org</a>></span><br><div class="gmail_quote">crossposted from: <a href="mailto:EQUIDAD@listserv.paho.org">EQUIDAD@listserv.paho.org</a><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><font color="maroon" size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:maroon;font-weight:bold">Analysing
Commitments to Advance the Global Strategy for Women's and Children's Health<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><font color="black" size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black;font-weight:bold">The
Partnership for Maternal, Newborn & Child Health (PMNCH), September 2011
Report<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><font color="black" size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black">Available online at: <a href="http://bit.ly/qseQYE" target="_blank"><font color="black"><span style="color:black">http://bit.ly/qseQYE</span></font></a>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><font color="navy" size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy">“……</span></font><font color="black" size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black">- In only one year, governments, foundations, UN and other
multilateral organizations, NGOs, the business community, health care
professional associations, and academic institutions have made unprecedented
financial and political commitments to greatly improve the health of women and
children. </span></font><font color="navy" size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy"><u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><font color="black" size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black">The assessment of commitments came in the
new PMNCH 2011 Report: Analysing Commitments to Advance the Global Strategy for
Women’s and Children’s Health. The new Report—along with many
new commitments—were released at the Every Woman Every Child first-year
anniversary high-level event held in <u></u><u></u>New
York<u></u><u></u>. </span></font><font color="navy" size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy">…”<br>
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<p style="margin-left:.5in"><font color="black" size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black">Topics of analysis for
this report include:<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><u></u><font color="black" size="2" face="Symbol"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:black"><span>·<font size="1" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></font></span></span></font><u></u><font color="black" size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black">the
number of stakeholders, from different constituency groups, who have made
commitments to advance the Global Strategy;<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><u></u><font color="black" size="2" face="Symbol"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:black"><span>·<font size="1" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></font></span></span></font><u></u><font color="black" size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black">the
estimated value of the financial contributions made, including the extent of
new and additional resources and projected government health spending on
reproductive, maternal, newborn and child health (RMNCH) through 2015 in 16
low-income countries;<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
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</span></font></span></span></font><u></u><font color="black" size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black">the
focus and scope of policy and service- delivery commitments made to date,
including the use of innovation to catalyse progress;<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><u></u><font color="black" size="2" face="Symbol"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:black"><span>·<font size="1" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></font></span></span></font><u></u><font color="black" size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black">the
geographic distribution of commitments, mapped against current progress on
Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) 4 and 5 in low- and middle-income
countries;<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
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</span></font></span></span></font><u></u><font color="black" size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black">the
alignment of commitments with idenitified gaps in human resources for health,
the coverage of essential RMNCH interventions, and integration with other MDGs;
and<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
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</span></font></span></span></font><font color="black" size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black">the
extent to which commitments relate to promoting human rights, equity and
empowerment, addressing structural and political barriers that impede progress.</span></font><br></p></div></div></div></div></div><br>