UN Acknowledges World Vision Uganda’s Role in Strengthening Accountability for the Improved Health of Women and Children

The 2012 Report of the independent Expert Review Group (iERG) on Information and Accountability for Women’s and Children’s Health acknowledges World Vision Uganda for its role in strengthening accountability by holding government, policymakers and health services accountable for the health of women. This is under the UN Secretary General Strategy of Every Woman Every Child.

When you read page 76, it mentions some CSOs that have palyed a key role in strengthening accountability on women and children’s health in Uganda.

World Vision through its Child Health Now Campaign aims to reduce child deaths from 90 to 56 deaths per every 1000 live births by 2015. This report summarises progress towards MDGs 4 and 5, the delivery of commitments made to the UN SG’s Global Strategy, and the Commission’s recommendations. It also takes two new subjects—country accountability and adolescents—and reviews status in both areas. The iERG puts forth six new recommendations, in addition to those made last year, and reviews how the recommendations made in 2012 have been received and responded to by partners.

You can download the report from here  Independent Expert Review Group Report on Info and Accountability for Women and children Health

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World Vision brings together global health experts and decision makers to discuss plan to save the lives of women and children

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Securing the Future: Saving the Lives of Women and Children side-event at the World Health Assembly in Geneva, Switzerland

“Having to queue at the door to get in here reminded me of lining up to get into a concert. I’m absolutely delighted to see so much enthusiasm” remarked Dr Flavia Bustreo, the World Health Organization’s Assistant Director General, Family, Women’s and Children’s Health.

She was speaking about World Vision’s Securing the Future: Saving the Lives of Women and Children side-event at the World Health Assembly in Geneva, Switzerland. Some of the world’s foremost experts on maternal and child health had gathered to voice their support for the UN Commission on Life-Saving Commodities – and the crowd was packed with representatives from country delegations, UN agencies, research institutions, NGOs, journalists and even a princess.