Project profile — Global Advocacy Initiative Prioritizing Girls’ and Women’s Health, Rights and Well-Being

• Africa, regional (40.00%)
• America, regional (30.00%)
• Asia, regional (30.00%)

• Health, General: Health policy and administrative management (12110) (50.00%)
• Basic Health: Basic nutrition (12240) (25.00%)
• Population Policies/Programmes And Reproductive Health: Family planning (13030) (25.00%)

• Gender equality (principal objective)
• Environmental sustainability (cross-cutting) (not targeted)
• Participatory development and good governance (not targeted)
• Trade development (not targeted)
• Biodiversity (not targeted)
• Climate change mitigation (not targeted)
• Climate Change Adaptation (not targeted)
• Urban issues (not targeted)
• Desertification (not targeted)
• Children's issues (significant objective)
• Youth Issues (significant objective)
• Indigenous Issues (not targeted)
• Disability (not targeted)
• ICT as a tool for development (not targeted)

This project aims to implement a global advocacy initiative to highlight and prioritize girls’ and women’s health, rights and well-being, with a particular focus on maternal, newborn and adolescent health, nutrition and family planning. Project activities include support to: (1) organizing the Girl Power in Play Symposium (Ottawa, June 18-19, 2015); (2) organizing the 2016 Women Deliver Conference, which is the world’s largest global convening to focus on the health, rights and well-being of girls and women; and (3) organizing a thematic meeting on nutrition; and 4) country-level consultations on the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

The expected outcomes for this project include: (1) new voices and champions build momentum and support for the health, rights and well-being of girls and women, especially maternal and newborn health, adolescent health and family planning; (2) new global and country-level narratives on making progress on the health, rights and well-being of girls and women, especially maternal and newborn health, adolescent health and family planning under the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs); and (3) global initiatives and allied sectors prioritize health, rights and well-being of girls and women, especially maternal and newborn health, adolescent health and family planning in the implementation of the SDGs.

Results achieved as of the end of the project (December 2017) include: 1) the participation of almost 6,000 people from 169 countries, including 2,500 organizations, 1,200 youth, 85 parliamentarians and 500 journalists to the 2016 Women Deliver Conference, which was the largest gathering on girls’ and women’s health, rights, and well-being in more than a decade; 2) increased global awareness of how girls and women are transformative drivers of development by providing evidence, communication and advocacy tools, knowledge and strategies to make progress on investments which increase the health, rights and well-being of girls and women.

• Proactive disclosure