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WRA Voices:Changing Lives for
Mothers & Newborns
Dr. Farhana Ahmad
White Ribbon Alliance
Bangladesh
May 6, 2012
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In some cultures white
symbolises mourning; inothers it symbolises hope and
life. Our white ribbon is
dedicated to the memory ofall girls and women who died
needlessly in pregnancy and
childbirth.
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WRA Mission
The WRA is a grassroots movementthat builds alliances, strengthenscapacity, influences policies,
harnesses resources and inspiresaction to save the lives of women andnewborns around the world.
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Global Advocacy Objectives
Governments Held to Account to Improve
Maternal Health
Health Workers Better Supported to Provide
Care for Women
A Standard Established for Respectful
Maternity Care
Rights Realised for Girls and Women
A Strengthened Alliance
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National Objectives
The right policies
Sufficient resources
Delivery and implementation of commitments Girls and women have the information they
need to demand a safe pregnancy and
childbirth
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Nepal
Successes
Safe Motherhood and Neonatal Health Bill
Raising voice and making safe motherhood a
national issue when it was not on anyone's
horizon in Nepal in 1996
Keeping the pressure on the Government and
Donors to continue to work in this issue and
creating a large network of active NGO
volunteers
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Nepal
Challenges Lack of secretariat support
Lack of funds to train members on technical
issues Poltical instability
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Yemen
Successes
Safe Age of Marriage Bill
Development of a film, Upcoming Hope whichtalks about the 4 delay model
Advocacy for safe motherhood among youth
A committee of alliance in 1 new governorate
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Yemen
Challenges Limited administrative and financial capacity within
the Alliance.
Limited understanding of the concept of volunteer
work.
Limited independent financial resources for the
alliance
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Pakistan
Successes
Grant awarded to promote Magnesium
Sulphate as a norm for the prevention andtreatment of Eclampsia
Local chapters in Punjab and Khyber
Pakhtunkhwa provinces
A documentary on the importance of skilled
birth attendants
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PakistanChallenges
Decentralising of the Federally administered
Ministry of Health to the provincial level
Continuity of vertical programmes in the
health sector,accessibility to health services
and availability of skilled birth attendants
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BangladeshSuccesses
Analysis of the National Budget to understand the
allocations of funds for maternal health
Orientation of the key influencers for maternal health
-Parliamentarians
-Media
-Leaders of influence
Talkshows highlighting priority issues for maternalhealth with policymakers and lawmakers
Identification of key strategies to promote public
sector accountability for maternal health
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Bangladesh
Challenges:
Retention of skilled workforce for maternal and
newborn health Single donor dependence
Keeping volunteers engaged in the work of the
Alliance
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India
Successes Social accountability at the grassroots level
through,
-public hearing-checklist to track availability of services at the
health centers
-verbal maternal death audits
-working with media and elected
representatives
-mobilisation on entitlements
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India
Systematic policy review and a subsequent
design of a grassroots campaign on birth
preparedness and complication readiness
50 celebrity champions mobilised in
promoting safe motherhood awareness
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IndiaChallenges
Funding and sustainability
Lack of support for social accountability
programmes
Maintaining volunteerism and finding
Technical Assistance for the State Alliances
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Indonesia
Successes
Broadcast Partnership with Radio Republic of
Indonesia
First Lady Patron
Social Media and partnering with youth clubs,
universities and midwifery academies
Health Promotion Program on Clean & Healthy
Behavior and Safe Motherhood in 5 provinces
and 10 Districts with MOH
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Indonesia
Alert Villages- Desa Siaga
Mother and child health books
Monthly village forum attended by the Head of
Village, Head of Sub-District, youth organizations and
religious leaders
Educational outreach programs for teenage girls, ages15 and above
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Indonesia
Challenges
Advocacy in 17,000 islands , divided into 33provinces, 560 districts and more than 70,000
villages which have their own priorities which are
political issues
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We need
to break
the silence
around maternal deaths.
To do that,
we need your voiceand the voices
of your friends, families,
and policymakersto send a clear message:
Invest in Women -- It Pays!
-Women Deliver
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