This Scorecard for women and girls SRHR in Africa – produced by AIDS Accountability International in partnership with ARROW and Ford Foundation –  is a research report using the AAI Scorecard methodology and an accountability lens to create transparency, stimulate dialogue and provoke action around the state of sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) […]

This guide, as the name suggests, is meant for use by advocates for sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) at the country level. The guide uses the recommendations made to national governments in the publication “Ensuring human rights in the provision of contraceptive information and services: Guidance and recommendations” published by the World Health […]

The Agenda 2030 pledges to “leave no one behind,” and to prioritize those who are farthest behind first. This cannot be achieved if the needs and rights of the people in the Global South regions are not prioritized. Nor can it be achieved if we do not consider the rights and needs of various constituencies […]

This Call for Action was produced as part of the “Global South Youth Strategizing Meeting” that was organized by ARROW on the 24th of January 2016, prior to the International Conference on Family Planning (ICFP) 2016 in Bali, Indonesia. This meeting brought together Global South partners from the AIDS Accountability International (AAI); African Youth and […]

It’s been 15 years since the Millennium Declaration1, in which the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) were adopted to eradicate poverty, was signed. During the MDG Summit in September 2010, the Member States set forth the steps to promote the post-2015 development programme. In June 2012, during the Rio+20 Conference on Sustainable Development, the Member States […]

These Global South Adolescent and Young People Fact Sheets, have been developed as part of the ICPD+20 Global South SRHR Monitoring and Research Initiative steered by ARROW in partnership with Central and Eastern European Women’s Network for Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (ASTRA), Latin American and Caribbean Women’s Health Network (LACWHN), Egyptian Initiative for […]

In 2013, the total population of Sub-Saharan Africa was estimated to be 936.1 million1 and by 2015 adolescents and young people in SSA will constitute 19.6% (224.4 million) of the region’s population. Countries in in this region provide unparalleled opportunity for economic growth and development. However, the Sub-Saharan region faces serious political, economic and social […]

The 20 year review of the International Conference on Population and Development Programme of Action provides a unique opportunity to bring critical attention to adolescent and young people’s sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) in Africa. In a region where harmful traditional practices such as female genital mutilation and early marriage continue to violate […]

This booklet documents 17 inspiring life-stories of rural women from 14 countries from the Global South who participated in the Women’s Travelling Journal on Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (WTJ-SRHR). Following the success of the first women’s travelling journal in 2013, this second WTJ is a joint initiative of the Asian Rural Women’s Coalition […]

As growing numbers of young people enter their reproductive years, they will need significantly expanded reproductive health services. Adolescents in Sub Saharan Africa (SSA) have particular reproductive health vulnerabilities such as high adolescent birth rates , this group contributes to over 50% of the global proportion of births taking place in adolescence and to over […]