ICPD+15

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF POPULATION AND DEVELOPMENT (ICPD)+15

Introduction and Background

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.

ICPD+15 Project Partners:

Country	Partner Organization
Bangladesh	Bangladesh Women's Health Coalition (BWHC)
Bangladesh	Naripokkho
Cambodia	Reproductive Health Association of Cambodia (RHAC)
China	Peking University Women's Legal Aid Centre
	Hei Longjang Women's Federation
	Shanghai Women's Health Institute
India	Academy of Nursing Studies (ANS), Hyderabad
	Chetna, Ahmedabad
	Centre for Health and Social Justice (CHSJ), Delhi
Indonesia	Women's Health Foundation/ Yayasan Kesehatan Perempuan (YKP)
Laos	Lao University of Health Sciences
Malaysia	Federation of Reproductive Health Associations of Malaysia (FRHAM)
Malaysia	Reproductive Rights Advocacy Alliance of Malaysia (RRAAM)
Nepal	Beyond Beijing Committee
Pakistan	Shirkat Gah
Philippines	Likhaan
Philippines	Reprocen
Thailand	The Southeast Asian Consortium on Gender, Sexuality, and Health
Thailand	Institute for Population and Social Research
Vietnam	Consultation of Investment in Health Promotion (CIHP)
	Research Centre for Gender, Family and Development (CGFED)
	Institute for Reproductive and Family Health (RHAF)

Capacity Assessment Tool *new*

ICPD+15 Country and Thematic Case Studies *new*

Briefing Paper: The Women and Health Section of the Beijing Platform of Action *new*

Reclaiming & Redefining Rights - ICPD+15: Status of Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights in Asia (powerpoint presentation)

Reclaiming & Redefining Rights - ICPD+15: Status of Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights in Asia

Berlin Call to Action

ICPD+15 Strategic Advocacy Planning Meeting 2009

Update on ICPD+15 Project

ICPD+15 Planning Meeting Proceedings Report 2008

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