Securing Health through Advocacy and People’s
Empowerment is a three-year program to mobilize more and better funds from key
European donors (Germany, EU) as well as from East African governments (Kenya,
Tanzania, Uganda). Over the next three years, DSW will build on its proven
successes in advocacy and capacity building through previous grant phases in
Germany, at the EU level as well as in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda.
Tuesday Feb, 28th
2017
Family
Planning Budget Advocacy Group (FPBAG) had their first meeting to review their
progress and to reposition themselves with new strategies to closing the gap of
FP inadequate funding by government. The Group was established in August 2016
under the coordination of DSW.
The
Director General, National Population Council Jotham Musiguzi who presided over
the review and planning meeting at National Population Council said that the
global FP2020 goal is to mobilize global policy, financing, commodity and service
delivery commitments to support the rights of women and girls in the world’s
poorest countries to use contraceptive information, services and supplies
without coercion and discrimination by 2020.
He
requested the participants to constructively engage the relevant authorities
towards FP domestic financing in Uganda. Noting that it is high time that
government and the public appreciated the importance FP in the country’s
Roadmap towards harnessing Demographic Dividends.
The
meeting was attended by representatives from DSW Uganda, plan International
Reach Hand Uganda, National Population Council, the media fraternity, HEPS,
PPDARO, Straight Talk Foundation, among others , and they made the following resolutions.
- Collectively conduct budget analysis capacity building for the relevant factors including legislators such as members of parliament, district counselors, and the technical government people
- Support SRH/FP policy reviews and wide dissemination across the country
- Support MoH to develop GFF work planning and other continuous engagements
- Hold meetings under the coordination of the OPM on the multi- sectoral approach on FP-NPC, MoH
- Produce the FP BAG newsletter-quarterly
- Develop and share a comprehensive work plan to which members will allocate their strengths as well as financial support.
By David Turyamusiima
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