[Health in Post-2015] Adolescents & Accountability, IAP Report, Call for Evidence, Deadline 31 March

 We have received the following from IAP:

Dear colleagues, please see below and attached on this call for inputs, contributions welcome.

Independent Accountability Panel Report 2017

- CALL FOR EVIDENCE & CONTRIBUTIONS on ACCOUNTABILITY TO ADOLESCENTS –

Deadline 31 March 2017 

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Putting women’s, children’s and adolescents’ health at the heart of Universal Health Coverage (UHC)

Details	Wednesday, December 7, 2016; 9:00am-10:00am EST
Location	Adobe Connect
Presenters	Giorgiana Rosa, Senior Health Policy and Advocacy Adviser, Save the Children, will present Save the Children’s report A Common Cause: reaching every woman and child through Universal Health Coverage  Helga Fogstad, Executive Director, The Partnership for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health, will highlight the importance of UHC for the implementation of the Global Strategy on Women’s, Children’s and Adolescents’ Health

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Every Woman Every Child: technical paper on adolescent health

We have received the following email from Noemi Espinoza Madrid, Civil Society Partnerships, ICPD Beyond 2014 Secretariat, UNFPA. Comments should be sent to pmnch@who.int up to 15 April, including your name, affiliation and email:

Dear Partners,

I am pleased to share with you the technical paper on adolescent health that is a part of the update of the UN Secretary-General's Global Strategy on Women and Children's Health "Every Woman Every Child".

UNFPA has made every effort to ensure that interventions to promote adolescents' sexual and reproductive health and rights are prioritized in this paper and hope that they will remain a priority. We would greatly appreciate your advocacy and support for this as this process gets streamlined.

Building a Future for Women and Children: The 2012 Report

The 2012 Report, Building a Future for Women and Children Countdown was launched by Countdown on June 14, 2012 during a two-day high-level meeting in Washington, DC.  Convened by the governments of the U.S., Ethiopia, and India in collaboration with UNICEF, the meeting charted a course toward the end of preventable child deaths around the world.

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Commission on Information and Accountability for Women’s and Children’s Health

The Commission on Information and Accountability for Women’s and Children’s Health, which was co-chaired by President Jakaya Kikwete of United Republic of Tanzania and Prime Minister Stephen Harper of Canada, comprising some 30 commissioners from government, civil society, academia, the UN and other multilateral agencies, was established in January 2011. It presented its advance report in May 2011 Keeping Promises, Measuring Results.

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Global Strategy for Women and Children’s Health (GSWCH)

The Global Strategy for Women and Children’s Health (GSWCH) was introduced as an initiative of the UN Secretary-General in 2010 at the time of the 10-year review at a High-level Meeting of the General Assembly.

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