2014

an advocacy brief: post 2015 development agenda – asia-pacific regional brief

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The sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) agenda was affirmed in the Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) held in Cairo in 1994. The agenda included, promoting gender equality, empowerment of women, equal access to education for girls and the provision of universal access to family planning and sexual and reproductive health services and reproductive rights. Twenty years from the ICPD agenda, at the 13th session of the Open Working Group on the Sustainable Development Goals, ensuring universal access to sexual and reproductive health and reproductive rights was included as a sub-goal within Goal 5 on achieving gender equality and empowerment of all women and girls of the outcome document. Goal 3 of the document also includes ensuring universal access to sexual and reproductive health care services, including for family planning, information and education, and the integration of reproductive health into national strategies and programmes by 2030.

SRHR are intimately interlinked to other development agendas including the achievement of gender equality, human rights, elimination of poverty and inequality. Working on SRHR requires working at the intersections of several issues such as that of migration, health, climate change, population dynamics, conflicts and disasters, food and nutrition security, and access to resources. Challenges faced by women in realizing their SRHR should therefore be viewed in the context of these variables, so that appropriate and sustainable interventions can take place. Although the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) highlight the importance of some of the SRHR agenda, they have also been criticized for the narrow interventions which often fail to consider the underlying social determinants and power dimensions of gender, poverty, inequality, inequity, ill-health and mortality. Twenty years since the ICPD agenda and the MDG framework, it is significant to assess progress towards SRHR in the Asia-Pacific region.

Vietnam

  • Centre for Creative Initiatives in Health and Population (CCIHP)

Indonesia

  • Aliansi Satu Visi (ASV);
  • CEDAW Working Group;
  • Hollaback! Jakarta;
  • Institut Kapal Perempuan;
  • Kalyanamitra;
  • Komnas Perempuan;
  • Remaja Independen Papua/Independent Youth
    Forum Papua (FRIP/IYFP);
  • Perkumpulan Keluarga Berencana Indonesia (PKBI);
  • Perkumpulan Lintas Feminis Jakarta;
  • Perkumpulan Pamflet Generasi;
  • RUTGERS Indonesia;
  • Sanggar SWARA;
  • Women on Web;
  • Yayasan Kesehatan Perempuan (YKP); 
  • YIFOS Indonesia

Maldives

  • Hope for Women
  • Society for Health Education (SHE)
an advocacy brief: post 2015 development agenda - asia-pacific regional brief

The sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) agenda was affirmed in the Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) held in Cairo in 1994. The agenda included, promoting gender equality, empowerment of women, equal access to education for girls and the provision of universal access to family planning and sexual and reproductive health services and reproductive rights. Twenty years from the ICPD agenda, at the 13th session of the Open Working Group on the Sustainable Development Goals, ensuring universal access to sexual and reproductive health and reproductive rights was included as a sub-goal within Goal 5 on achieving gender equality and empowerment of all women and girls of the outcome document. Goal 3 of the document also includes ensuring universal access to sexual and reproductive health care services, including for family planning, information and education, and the integration of reproductive health into national strategies and programmes by 2030.

SRHR are intimately interlinked to other development agendas including the achievement of gender equality, human rights, elimination of poverty and inequality. Working on SRHR requires working at the intersections of several issues such as that of migration, health, climate change, population dynamics, conflicts and disasters, food and nutrition security, and access to resources. Challenges faced by women in realizing their SRHR should therefore be viewed in the context of these variables, so that appropriate and sustainable interventions can take place. Although the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) highlight the importance of some of the SRHR agenda, they have also been criticized for the narrow interventions which often fail to consider the underlying social determinants and power dimensions of gender, poverty, inequality, inequity, ill-health and mortality. Twenty years since the ICPD agenda and the MDG framework, it is significant to assess progress towards SRHR in the Asia-Pacific region.

Morocco

  • Association Marocaine de Planification Familiale (AMPF),
  • Morocco Family Planning Association

India

  • CommonHealth;
  • Love Matters India;
  • Pravah;
  • Rural Women’s Social Education Centre (RUWSEC);
  • SAHAYOG;
  • Sahaj;
  • Sahiyo;
  • SAMA – Resource Group for Women and Health;
  • WeSpeakOut;
  • The YP Foundation (TYPF)

Lao PDR

  • Lao Women’s Union;
  • The Faculty of Postgraduate Studies at the University of Health
    Sciences (UHS)

Sri Lanka

  • Bakamoono;
  • Women and Media Collective (WMC),
  • Youth Advocacy Network – Sri Lanka (YANSL)

Malaysia

  • Federation of Reproductive Health Associations of Malaysia (FRHAM);
  • Joint Action Group for Gender Equality (JAG);
  • Justice for Sisters (JFS);
  • Reproductive Health Association of
    Kelantan (ReHAK);
  • Reproductive Rights Advocacy Alliance Malaysia (RRAAM);
  • Sisters in Islam (SIS)

Maldives

  • Hope for Women;
  • Society for Health Education (SHE)

Myanmar

  • Colourful Girls Organization;
  • Green Lotus Myanmar

Nepal

  • Beyond Beijing Committee (BBC);
  • Blind Youth Association of Nepal;
  • Blue Diamond Society (BDS);
  • Nepalese Youth for Climate Action (NYCA);
  • Visible Impact;
  • Women’s Rehabilitation Centre (WOREC);
  • YPEER Nepal;
  • YUWA

Pakistan

  • Aahung, Centre for Social Policy Development (CSPD);
  • Forum for Dignity Initiative (FDI);
  • Gravity Development Organization; Green Circle Organization;
  • Indus Resources Center (IRC);
  • Idara-e-Taleem-O-Aaghai (ITA);
  • Rehnuma – Family Planning Association Pakistan;
  • Shelter
    Participatory Organisation;
  • Shirkat Gah;
  • The Enlight Lab

Philippines

  • Democratic Socalist Women of the Philippines (DSWP);
  • Galang;
  • Healthcare Without Harm;
  • Institute for Climate and Sustainable Cities;
  • Likhaan Centre for Women’s Health;
  • Nisa UI Haqq Fi Bangsamoro;
  • PATH Foundation Inc. (PFPI);
  • Women’s Global Network for
    Reproductive Rights (WGNRR)

Singapore

  • End Female Genital Cutting Singapore
  • Reproductive Rights (WGNRR)

Mongolia

  • MONFEMNET National Network