Generating a Global South report on regional and global SRHR agendas: 

 “Southern Voices: Reclaiming & Redefining the Global South SRHR agenda for 2015”

In 2015, we will reach the target date for achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Similarly, the landmark international agreement documents of the Beijing Platform of Action (BPfA) and the Cairo Programme of Action (ICPD PoA) will also reach specific time-bound goals. Southern civil society input into international conference documents, as in the era of Cairo and Beijing, has not been replicated in the Millennium Declaration or the MDGs. Even the +10 anniversary of the MDGs, saw separate times and separate sessions for civil society organisations and governments.

However, it is critical that southern civil society is able to articulate southern demands, to ensure that development agendas of governments, inter-governmental organisations and donors are in tandem with their needs, realities and experiences.

This project aims to give southern civil society the means and avenue of articulating a regional SRHR agenda and distilling regional agendas into a global SRHR agenda. The strength of the agendas are demonstrated by evidence and data coupled with perspectives and experiences of practitioners on the ground.

The project aims to use a state of the region report methodology to articulate this agenda. Data analysis, trend analysis in issues, anticipated future trends and current realities form the bulwark of the report. The regional reports will come from the 5 regions in the global south: Africa, Asia-Pacific, Latin America, Eastern Europe and Middle-East –North Africa (MENA) regions.

These 5 regional reports will then feed into a global South report which delineates similarities or specificities with regards to specific SRHR issues, future trends and experiences.

These 5 regional and 1 global South report should be used to inform governments, donors and inter-governmental agencies on what should constitute the post-2015 development agenda.

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