A comprehensive monitoring report of 15 years of ICPD implementation in 12 Asian countries, this report covers areas of women's empowerment, reproductive health, reproductive rights, sexual health and sexual rights. This monitoring report on the status of sexual and reproductive health and rights in Asia paints a picture of uneven progress across 12 countries. Without full implementation of the ICPD Programme of Action, it will not be possible to Achieve Goal 5: reducing maternal mortality and ensuring universal access to reproductive health; and other Milennium Goals that are inextricably linked to PoA.
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Advocating Accountability: Status Report on Maternal Health and Young People's Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights in South Asia
The Women's Health and Rights Advocacy Partnership (WHRAP) brings together women NGO partners who are committed to strengthening civil society capacity to effectively advocate for sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR), especially safe motherhood and young people's SRHR at the local, national and regional levels.
Originally planned for implementation in 13 priority countries within the Asia Pacific region, WHRAP was first implemented in 2003 within four South Asian countries - India, Bangladesh, Nepal and Pakistan. The modality was then expanded to include China in 2007. ARROW is currently investing in advancing WHRAP to Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam, Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines and Fiji.
This book contains the national status reports on maternal health and young people's Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights, which were prepared by WHRAP's six national NGO partners as a baseline upon which to build WHRAP's multi-tiered advocacy. The status reports are meant to enable the monitoring of progress towards WHRAP's objectives of improving access to SRHR programmes and services through empowering marginalized women and youth.
The recommendations section within each report focuses on the accountability of government duty bearers in delivering on national and international commitments for achieving universal access to sexual and reproductive health and rights. At the same time, there is recognition of the importance of building movements that advocate for accountability, as an integral part of this process.
Such mobilization plays a critical role in generating the demand for rights-based service delivery at all levels, as it is anchored in the realities of women's lives. It also has the potential to open up opportunities for the direct participation of women within the related decision-making bodies, and ultimately, hold all levels of duty-bearers accountable.
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ARROW. 2008. Advocating Accountability: Status Report on maternal Health and Young People's Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights in South Asia. Kuala Lumpur: ARROW. 126p.
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Rights and Realities: Monitoring Reports on the Status of Indonesian Women's Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights
Despite some progress in the development of laws, policies and programmes that provide sexual and reproductive health and rights in Indonesia, access to affordable and comprehensive services remains limited, especially for vulnerable groups such as poor, rural and marginalised women. To implement monitoring of the ICPD in Indonesia, Indonesian NGOs set up focal point groups (FPGs) in seven major cities to monitor progress on reproductive health and rights. The FPGs worked under the umbrella of the Indonesian Reproductive Health & Rights Monitoring and Advocacy (IRRMA) Project, an ARROW initiated project. This publication is the compilation of six studies conducted by the FPGs on the progress of laws, policies and programmes in Indonesia as a part of the country's commitment to the ICPD. It specifically addresses such topics as maternal mortality, abortion, violence against women and girls, adolescent sexual and reproductive health and rights, women and HIV/AIDS, and the emerging impact of decentraliscation on health systems.
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ARROW. 2007. Rights and Realities: Monitoring Reports on the Status of Indonesian Women's Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights. Kuala Lumpur: ARROW. 199p.
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Women of the World: Laws and Policies Affecting Their Reproductive Lives
This series of reports, Women of the World: Laws and Policies Affecting their Reproductive Lives, is intended to give advocates and policymakers a more complete view of the laws and policies governing women’s lives to better enable legal and policy reform, to speed the implementation of laws that will improve women’s health and lives, and to assign accountability when governments fail to implement the laws designed to protect women. Initiated soon after the ICPD and the FWCW, the series to date has included reports covering Anglophone Africa, East Central Europe, Francophone Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean, and South Asia. The Center for Reproductive Rights and our collaborating organizations have raised awareness in each of the 35 countries covered by the series, and in many cases have contributed to improvements in laws and policies and their implementation.
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Monitoring Ten Years Of ICPD Implementation, The Way Forward To 2015, Asian Country Reports
It has been ten years since the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) and such a disappointment that so little progress has been made in the actual status of sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) and people’s access to affordable and comprehensive SRH services. Participants in this ICPD monitoring study were shocked and angry to discover that as a consequence of this slow progress since Cairo, one million women have died unnecessarily in the eight countries that participated in this study due to unsafe abortion, pregnancy or childbirth. This report presents findings from the only study in Asia, and one of the few globally, to provide much needed evidence on ICPD progress in time for the 10 year review.
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ARROW. 2005. Monitoring Ten Years of ICPD Implementation, The Way Forward to 2015, Asian Country Reports. Kuala Lumpur: ARROW. 384p.Price: US$15.00 plus US$5.00 postal charges
In Dialogue for Women’s Health Rights: Report of the South East Asian Regional GO-NGO Policy Dialogue on Monitoring & Implementation of the Beijing Platform for Action (2000)
This publication is the report of the Southeast Asian Regional GO-NGO Policy Dialogue on Monitoring and Implementation of the Beijing Platform for Action, which was held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on 1-4 June, 1998. ARROW, in partnership with the Gender and Development (GAD) Programme of the Asian and Pacific Development Centre (APDC) organised the Dialogue as one of the first efforts in the region to monitor the broad health needs of women. The dialogue was part of a larger project with the goal of strengthening national and regional monitoring mechanisms to effectively implement the health section of the Beijing Platform for Action. The countries involved in the dialogue were Cambodia, Indonesia, Lao PDR, Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam. This process of support and collaboration between an NGO and an inter-governmental organisation provided a forum and framework for a more comprehensive understanding and analysis of women’s health needs and status in the region.
The reports includes dialogue discussions on monitoring and implementation efforts in three broad themes:
- Sexual and reproductive health and rights
- Violence against women
- Gender-sensitive health programmes
Findings suggest the need for a broader approach to understanding women’s health needs, an approach requiring creativity, commitment and gender-sensitivity.
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ARROW. 2000. In Dialogue for Women’s Health Rights: Report of the South East Asian Regional GO-NGO Policy Dialogue on Monitoring & Implementation of the Beijing Platform for Action, 1-4 June 1998, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Kuala Lumpur: ARROW. 65p
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Women’s Health Needs and Rights in Southeast Asia - A Beijing Monitoring Report (2001)
This publication reports the research findings of the first monitoring project in the region, Women’s Health Needs and Rights in Southeast Asia, to systematically track the implementation of recommendations from the Beijing Platform For Action. The project outlined the broad conceptual, policy, service delivery and financial changes needed for governments to better address women’s health needs and rights. Practical indicators of action, categorised into three major categories, were used as tools of research and analysis. The categories of indicators are 1) health service provision 2) national laws, policies, plans and regulations 3) women's health needs and status.
This focus of the report was on women's health and rights, sexual and reproductive health and rights, violence against women, gender-sensitive health policies and programmes. The report also examines the extent to which health programmes in the selected countries such as Cambodia, Indonesia, Lao PDR, Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam, have responded to the Beijing recommendations in terms of policies, services and resources. The research findings suggest that progress towards implementing change is slow.
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ARROW. 2000. Women’s Health Needs and Rights in Southeast Asia- A Beijing Monitoring Report. Kuala Lumpur: ARROW. 39p.
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Taking Up the Cairo Challenge: Country Studies in Asia Pacific
This publication is a monitoring research report that assesses the extent of governments' action and commitment towards the full implementation of the Programme of Action from the Cairo International Conference on Population and Development in 1994. Co-ordinated by ARROW, the research initiative represents an important cross-country NGO contribution to monitoring activities. Interviewees range from national policy-makers to service personnel at the grassroots level in Fiji, China, Indonesia, Malaysia, Pakistan, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam.
This publication presents some of the first national and regional efforts, globally, to monitor achievements and obstacles to ICPD implementation at country levels, two years after Cairo. The specific focus is on the area of reproductive health and reproductive rights, with the aim of assessing to what extent these concepts have been understood, accepted and concretely addressed in health, population and family planning policies and programmes. Findings reveal that population control policies still dominate Asia governments’ thinking and programmes on reproductive health.
Section 1: Overview Of Findings And Country Studies
Section 2: Consultation Report
Report Of The Regional Consultation On Strategies For Change, by Zainah Anwar and List Of Tables & Appendices
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ARROW. 1999. Taking Up the Cairo Challenge: Country Studies in Asia-Pacific. Kuala Lumpur: ARROW. 288p.
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Access to Quality Gender-Sensitive Health Services: Women-Centred Action Research (2003)
This publication is the outcome from an action-research project to assess low-income and marginalised women's access to gender-sensitive, quality health services in selected countries. The study aimed to effect changes in the perception of health service providers and in women's knowledge of their rights to quality health services resulting in an improved access and more gender-sensitive provision of health services for women in Asia and Pacific.
A participatory methodology and intervention were designed and implemented in cooperation with service providers, women and women’s organisations. The main findings are drawn from an analysis of the six case studies of health services conducted in Malaysia, Bangladesh, Philippines, China, Sri Lanka and Pakistan. The book offers insight into experiences of health services and needs as articulated by women themselves and is useful to governments, international institutions and NGOs who are committed to reviewing health programmes for women as recommended by the Fourth World Conference on Women (Beijing).
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ARROW. 2003. Access to Quality Gender-Sensitive Health Services: Women-Centred Action Research. Kuala Lumpur: ARROW. 147p.
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