MDG

Voice of Youth Assembly (VOYA) 2011

…building alliance for the achievement of the MDG in Africa

“Addressing Global Challenges requires a collective and concerted
effort, involving all actors. Through partnerships and alliances,
we increase our chances for success”.

Bank Ki-moon- UN Secretary General

Unsafe abortion remains the unresolved “thorn in the flesh” of those addressing the high levels of maternal morbidity and mortality prevalent in Africa.

Going through pregnancy and childbirth safely should be the expectation of every woman. However, high levels of maternal deaths continue to plague many sub-Saharan African countries, where achievement of Millennium Development Goal 5 threatens to be an elusion. Yet, even though complications of pregnancy cannot always be prevented, deaths resulting from them can be averted if women received timely and appropriate skilled health care throughout the continuum of pregnancy and childbirth. This is possible with application of available knowledge of interventions that are effective in preventing death from complications of pregnancy and childbirth.

What is lacking, as argued in an essay entitled What’s in the way of achieving improved maternal health in Kenya?, is the commitment, at all levels, to act; to make the reduction of maternal mortality a high priority.

What’s your view?

As the high level Summit on the Millennium Development Goals drew to a close, CIVICUS urged world leaders to act decisively on the recommendations presented to them. 

‘We will make more progress if we take a human rights approach”, Mary Robinson, The Elders.

As the UN reports that only half of countries are on track to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), Mary Robinson, Graça Machel, Gro Brundtland, Ela Bhatt and Martti Ahtisaari support the Every Human Has Rights campaign and call for freedom from poverty as a human right.

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This is a critical year for Africa as we head towards the United Nations Summit on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), to be held from 20-22 September 2010 in New York. With only 5 years before the MDGs are to be achieved, it is important that all African stakeholders, including citizens, review the progress made in recent years and develop a set of priorities for engagement and advocacy in Africa, and towards building a redefined relationship between Africa and the international community.

Dear Kabissa Friends,

Thank you so much for your responses to our call for Creative Content.  We have had interest from artists in many different countries.  We're really excited.

We also are moving forward with our fundraising and outreach efforts.  Don't worry, we are not asking for a donation!!!  However, we would appreciate 20-seconds of your time, not for our sake, but the number of creative communities at the local level that we are excited to bring into the development agenda for women's health.

Dear friends and artists,

I'm developing a new project in collaboration with various international agencies and artists that blends the creative world with the humanitarian world around the issue of women/motherhood/maternal health.