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Introduction
In today’s world Reproductive
Health (RH) enjoys the status of
being the key strategy for
achieving poverty alleviation
and social development targets
like the Millennium Development
Goals (MDGs). In Pakistan,
regrettably, RH remains a
marginalized field within the
health and development debate.
The little discourse that exists
around the subject is not only
fragmented but also lacks
coherence and strength. While
there are many actors involved,
there are unfortunately no
leaders. RH in Pakistan, is a
cause without a champion.
LEAD Pakistan with the financial
assistance of David & Lucile
Packard Foundation has launched
a unique 3 year long project
called “Our World”, which aims
to cultivate leaders,
ambassadors and champions of RH.
This project will create a
cross-sectoral network of women
of renown and influence,
respected for their position and
achievement, with demonstrated
contribution to social
development goals, to raise the
profile of RH within the broader
social development sector.
These influential leaders will
unite under one platform to
raise awareness and mobilise
support for RH issues.
Objectives
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To create a cross-sectoral &
gender balanced network of
influential leaders;
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To engage them in using
their positions and
commitments to meeting RH
goals;
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To develop an innovative
range of communication
strategies to raise the
profile of RH;
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To encourage public policy
engagement for influencing
policy decisions on and
budget allocations to RH;
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To help Pakistan meet its
MDG commitments vis a vis
RH.
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Our Message
“Our
World” is about creating
women network of influential women leaders who
can use
their influence to create awareness of reproductive
health issues, challenges, problems and solutions.
We want women from all
over Pakistan to unite
and to raise their
voices to increase
awareness of RH issues,
to mobilize support, to
create dialogue amongst
women of their own
communities, so that
there is widespread
discussion not only at
the policy level but at
the community level as
well.
We need to invest in our
future, to connect
ourselves with one
another and dedicate our
selves to improve
reproductive health for
women and girls of this
generation and the next. |
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Outcomes
By the end of three years some
of the key outcomes we hope to
have achieved is to have
sensitised a cross-sectoral
network of women leaders to the
issues of RH and motivated them
to lead change within their
spheres of influence This
network will have been
instrumental in reaching out to
over 1000 different
stakeholders, including
high-level decision makers, to
pledge support for RH. The
network will have been
sensitised through a series of
activities including exposure
visits to communities and RH
project sites in turn will
contribute to the development of
publications such as discussion
papers, research papers, and
policy briefs and will also
initiate their own creative
communications and public policy
engagement activities.
We expect a “policy change”
impact so that RH has a higher
profile in the development
sector, and it can act as a
stepping stone to achieving
MDG’s.
(Last updated:
January 10, 2012) |
