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World YWCA Launches SRHR Program for Young Women
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World YWCA Launches Global Programme to Improve Reproductive Health and
Rights for Young Women
The world is confronted with staggering statistics related to women's health
on a daily basis: an unacceptable number of girl-child marriages; women
dying in childbirth; and young women exposed to sexually transmitted
infections and HIV.
The World YWCA, with support from The David and Lucile Packard Foundation,
has launched a global effort to build and mobilise young women's leadership
programmes that can provide an accelerated response to sexual and
reproductive health and rights (SRHR) issues and address the intersections
of these issues with HIV and Violence Against Women (VAW).
The initiative will build the leadership of women and young women to empower
them to respond to their SRHR, especially marginalised and disadvantaged
girls, women, and communities. The David and Lucile Packard Foundation will
provide a one million dollar (US) grant over two years towards this World
YWCA effort.
The grant has three main objectives:
-Building and strengthening the leadership skills of women around SRHR.
-Improving advocacy skills and results of advocacy activities around SRHR
and sustaining and expanding advocacy training programmes of 10 African
YWCAs.
-Creating and distributing quality materials and health information around
SRHR to the target constituents in these programmes.
"This grant comes at a time when the women of the world are seeking real
investment in their voices, lives and leadership. We are grateful to the
David and Lucile Packard Foundation for affirming the leadership role of
women in advancing sexual and reproductive health and rights. As the World
YWCA, this collaboration affirms our strength as a community-grounded
organisation, and yet it also provides possibilities for amplifying
national, regional and global policy actions," said Nyaradzayi Gumbonzvanda,
World YWCA General Secretary.
The World YWCA has a long history of work in the area of HIV and Violence
Against Women. The 2007 International Women's Summit on HIV and AIDS, which
brought together over 2,000 participants, strongly called for greater
recognition and adoption of approaches that bring the response to the
intersection of SRHR, HIV and Violence.
For the period, 2008-2011 the World YWCA is convening a series of regional
training institutes under the common theme 'Women Creating Safe and Secure
Communities' to contribute to the movement's strategic framework by
developing regional strategies for programme delivery including advocacy on
SRHR, HIV and VAW.
The World YWCAs new strategy on SRHR, HIV and VAW focuses on comprehensive
prevention approaches; provision of safe and inclusive spaces for women and
girls; and leadership development for advocacy. "All women and young women
have the right to live in a safe world, free of violence and HIV, where
their reproductive health and rights are respected," said Gumbonzvanda.
About the World YWCA:
The World YWCA is a global movement that reaches 25 million women and girls
in 125 countries, providing them with the space and skills to develop
leadership to achieve justice, peace, security, health, human dignity,
freedom and care for the environment for the entire community. The World
YWCA affirms that women's human rights are universal, indivisible,
interdependent and interrelated.
Website: http://www.worldywca.org
For more information contact:
Kaburo Kobia
Communications Director, World YWCA
email: kaburo.kobia (at) worldywca.org
phone: +41229296030
World YWCA
16 Ancienne Route
1218 Grand Saconnex
Geneva
Switzerland
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BWIZA MUHIRE HIPPOLYTE
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Global Youth Coalition on HIV/AIDS
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Cell Phone: +250 788 60 42 94
hippolyte (at) youthaidscoalition.org
www.youthaidscoalition.org
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