Monitoring and Advocacy on Sexual and Reprodcutive Health and Rights (SRHR): ICPD Ten Years On

Introduction

In December 2002, ARROW and women NGO partners played a critical lobbying role in ESCAP's Asian and Pacific Population Conference in Bangkok to prevent conservative attempts to undermine the ICPD document. Now that the review of ten years of ICPD has begun, a regional monitoring project on SRHR plays an important input into this accountability process. Yet there has been no evidence and positions presented by NGOs in relation to ICPD implementation as there have been no country monitoring study since 1998.

The new project entitled 'Monitoring and Advocacy on SRHR: ICPD Ten Years On' is timely due to the above reasons. Partner NGOs from eight countries (Cambodia, China, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Nepal, Pakistan and The Philippines) have initiated monitoring studies using critical indicators and findings will be used as an advocacy tool to the relevant stakeholders of the country. These findings will also be presented and discussed during the respective countries' GO/ NGO national policy dialogue.

Findings from the eight countries will be synthesised into a Regional Overview Analysis that will set the regional platform to advocate issues under the banner of Women's Health and Rights Advocacy Partnerships (WHRAP) .

Outputs of the Project

The outputs of the project are eight country-monitoring reports and one regional overview, which will be available in a publication at the end of 2004.

Click on the following links for the reports:

• Country Monitoring Report: Cambodia (Cambodian Midwives Association)
• Country Monitoring Report: China (Institute of Population Research)
• Country Monitoring Report: India (CHETNA & ANS-WERS)
• Country Monitoring Report: Indonesia (IRRMA group)
• Country Monitoring Report: Malaysia (FFPAM)
• Country Monitoring Report: Nepal (BBC)
• Country Monitoring Report: Pakistan (Shirkat Gah)
• Country Monitoring Report: Philippines (Likhaan)
• Monitoring ICPD Ten Years On Regional Overview (Draft)

For more information, click on the flyer below

ICPD Flyer in Word format