STIMULATING POLICY CHANGE : WAHOs EFFORTS TO HARMONISE

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• STIMULATING POLICY CHANGE WAHOs EFFORTS
  TO HARMONISE
• MATERNAL HEALTH POLICIES
• Professor Angela Okolo
• PO (MPH)
• WAHO

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WAHO MEMBERS STATES-PAYS MEMBRES DE L'OOAS
THE 15 8 5 2 3 LINGUISTIC AREAS
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Political Structures

• The authority of Heads of State and Governments
• is the supreme decision-making body of ECOWAS and
  WAHO.
• The council of Ministers of ECOWAS makes
  recommendations to the Authority of ECOWAS

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MANDATE

• Maternal Perinatal health strategy will focus on
  and be developed by
• Advocacy
• Social Mobilization
• Capacity Building
• Partnership Development
• Dissemination of Best Practices/Approaches

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Vision 2010

• Mobilizes resources for the Road Map for
  accelerating the attainment of MNH related MDGs
• WAHO
• Coordinates activities at the regional level
• Disseminates information

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Efforts to Harmonise RH Policies
SITAN Abuja Meeting, preliminary results
Development of merged questionnaire (WAHO/OOAS)
and AWARE-RH
Presentation to Steering Committee/Regional
Partners
Validation visits in 9 countries
Preliminary conclusions
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Process
Preliminary Conclusions
Advocacy Priorities
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Advocacy Strategy

• Created REDUCE Model
• Developed advocacy strategy
• Target audiences
• Key messages
• Timelines
• Materials
• Communication
• channels

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Priority Advocacy Areas

• Increase Funding for RH (line items)
• Harmonize training curricula
• Protect the rights of women
• Strengthen community involvement
• Focus on EONC

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Next Steps

• AHM Meeting in November
• First Ladies meeting in Niger
• Create multi-sectoral alliances for Roadmap
• Advocacy with Parliamentarians
• ECOWAS
• Country-level
• Finalize SITAN
• Update information
• annually

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• Thank you for your attention

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