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COURSE: 9th “Making Governance Gender Responsive” (MGGR) training course

23-30 JULY 2009 Asian Institute of Management Conference Center (ACCM), Philippines

Publisher/Organizer: Center for Asia-Pacific Women in Politics (CAPWIP)
Date: 23-30 July 2009
Venue: Asian Institute of Management Conference Center Manila (ACCM)
Language: English

Link to CAPWIP web site

Making Governance Gender Responsive (MGGR) is a generic course that can be adapted and modified to suit the needs of the different countries. Specifically, the participants are expected to:

• Enhance their understanding of Gender and Development (GAD), and governance concepts.
• Gain appreciation of gender-related and governance issues, and concerns.
• Identify gender biases in governance.
• Acquire skills in identifying and analyzing gender biases and concerns through case examples of strategies and practices to address gender biases.
• Identify gender biases in the participant’s sphere of influence - A Change Management Approach.
• Formulate Action Plans: institutional and individual.

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G8 in the news

JULY 2009

JULY 2009 - News clippings related to maternal, newborn and child health (MNCH) and the G8 Summit.

All clippings on MNCH and the G8

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Eliminating World Poverty: Building our Common Future

Publisher/Organizer: DFID
Publication date: July 2009
Number of pages: 150
Language: English

Link to the publisher’s web site

Overview

The White Paper represents a fundamental shift in the way the UK delivers development aid, refocusing resources onto fragile countries and for the first time treating security and justice as a basic service alongside health, education, water and sanitation. Fifty per cent of new bilateral funding will be committed to fragile countries.

Key announcements in Building our Common Future include:

• A renewed commitment to 0.7 per cent of UK Gross National Income (GNI) for international development, meaning a contribution of £9bn per year by 2013;
• Measures to reduce maternal mortality rates and potentially save the lives of six million mothers and babies by 2015;
• Plans to support over eight million more children in Africa go to school;
• Doubling of funding to £1bn for African infrastructure including transport, energy and trade in the region;
• A tripling of funding to support developing countries to recover stolen assets, and new resources to Interpol, as part of a major effort to stamp out corruption;
• Increased investment in the Central Emergency Response Fund for humanitarian aid at the UN

On fragile countries: Helping to ensure that security and justice are treated as a basic service – alongside health, education, water and sanitation – in the developing world with funding tripled to £120 m by 2014; A focus on jobs in five of the most vulnerable countries - Yemen, Nepal, Nigeria, Ethiopia and Afghanistan – where 7.5 million people will benefit from jobs and economic opportunities.

On growth and trade: A quadrupling of funding to promote fair and ethical trade; A new International Growth Centre to offer world class economic expertise and practical advice to poor countries.

On climate change: Renewed commitment to £800m to support climate adaptation, low carbon growth and protection of forests; The piloting of new low carbon innovation centres and a global climate change knowledge network.

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5th International AIDS Society Conference on HIV Pathogenesis, Treatment and Prevention

19-22 JULY 2009 CAPE TOWN

As the fifth conference in this series, IAS 2009 will continue its strong emphasis on basic, clinical and biomedical prevention science. However, for the first time, the scientific programme also will include a fourth track on Operations Research. This newest feature underscores one of the defining characteristics of the IAS conference: to examine how scientific advances increase knowledge and are instrumental, through very practical ways, to reach populations which need new and improved
methods to prevent, treat, and effectively confront the epidemic.

Link to web site

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G8 Italy 2009 - Partnership sends open letter to Leaders

G8 Watch 2009

Contents G8 Watch 2009 PMNCH Letter to G8 G8 Leaders Declaration Civil Society G8 G8 Civil actions BLOG: Add your voice BLOG: Women Deliver BLOG: FCI BLOG: STC G8 in the news

17 July 2009 | L’Aquila /Geneva - The Partnership has written to the G8 leaders applauding their commitment to maternal, newborn and child health. The Chair and Co-Chairs urge G8 leaders to translate their pledges into concrete action and offer the Partnership as the platform to develop action plans and funding strategies. The “Group of 8″ (G8) gathered the world’s most powerful heads of state in Italy in early July. The letter praises the G8 for setting “clear and unprecedented statements on the centrality of maternal, newborn, and child health to overall progress on the (Millennium Development Goals) MDGs and offers to work with leaders to help achieve them.

For the first time last year, the G8 leaders included maternal, newborn and child health (MNCH) in one of the outcome documents from the G8 summit- the Toyako Framework for Action on Global Health, with some of the specific actions to be taken to improve progress in reducing maternal and newborn mortality. This year, the Declaration document goes further and calls for the “removal of barriers to access for all women and children” and “encourage(s) the work of the WHO, WB, UNICEF and UNFPA are doing to renew international efforts on maternal and child health.” See DECLARATION link, on the right, for the full G8 Declaration document, and MNCH highlights.

The Heads of Government discussed, amongst other issues, the following global issues: a response to the global economic and financial crisis, employment, protectionism and deregulation of world trade, health and development, food security and safety and climate change.They will focus their attention again at their past commitments to Africa, through NEPAD, and health and development, including reducing the high child and newborn mortality.

Join The Partnership website with the “G8 Watch 2009“. On the links to your right, find:

• PMNCH OPEN LETTER to G8: full text;
• G8-2009 DECLARATION: Responsible Leadership for a Sustainable Future (08/07/2009) with MNCH highlights and full text;
• CIVIL SOCIETY G8: news and links from the Civil G8 initiative;
• G8 CIVIL ACTIONS: related G8 campaigns and actions by civil society;
• G8 BLOG: find links to ADD YOUR VOICE on the G8 BLOGS, and find BLOGS from PMNCH members;
• G8 IN THE NEWS: news and clippings related to the G8 and maternal, newborn and child material and actions.

G8 Ministers - June 2009

11-12 June 2009 | Rome - The G8 Development Ministers’ and senior officials’ met in Rome in June, including the EU Presidency and the European Commission and focused on the impact of the economic and financial crisis on the developing world, particularly regarding the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). The summit’s participants called for prioritizing social safety nets and basic health coverage in developing countries and requested accelerating action on maternal, newborn and child health. The chair’s summary of the meeting can be accessed on the official G8 site, sited below. Below, find links to the official G8 website, which includes the Agenda, all documents and reports, including the report of development ministers, June 2009.

Development Ministers Meet - June 2009

Link to The Partnership’s 2008 G8 Watch

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17 July 2009 | L’Aquila /Geneva - The Partnership has sent an open letter to the G8 leaders applauding their commitment to maternal, newborn and child health and urging them to translate the pledges into concrete action. The “Group of 8″ (G8) gathered the world’s most powerful heads of state in Italy in early July. The letter praises the leaders for setting “clear and unprecedented statements on the centrality of maternal, newborn, and child health to overall progress on the (Millennium Development Goals) MDGs and offers to work with leaders to help achieve them.

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13 July 2009 | Geneva - The Partnership has sent an open letter to the G8 leaders applauding G8 pledges for new and better-aligned resources and offers to serve as a platform for collaboration for work on maternal, newborn and child health (MNCH). The “Group of 8″ (G8) gathered the world’s most powerful heads of state in Italy last week. The G8 group’s member countries are Canada, the Russian Federation, France, Germany, Japan, Italy, the United Kingdom, and the United States, together with the European Union represented by the European Council’s duty President and by the President of the European Commission. The 2009 G8 Summit, initially planned in La Maddalena, was moved to L’Aquila, Italy, after the devastating earthquake that shook the area earlier this year. The annual Leaders’ Summit is the highest-profile event in the G8 process, although focussed G-8 Ministerial meetings take place throughout the year.

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CELEBRATION: World Population Day

11 JULY 2009

Publisher/Organizer: United Nations Population Fund
Event date: 11 July 2009

Link to UNFPA web site

8 July 2009 — WHO today launched a network of organizations and experts from around the world to scale up action to combat noncommunicable diseases. The new Global Noncommunicable Disease Network (NCDnet) will strengthen global partnerships and help governments plan and implement measures to reduce the burden of these diseases.

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