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Remove filterNovember 26th 2014
Ann Pettifor
African Union launches ground breaking data site – African Health Stats
Advocacy International is proud to announce the launch of African Health Stats, a ground-breaking data site from the African Union built in partnership with Advocacy International, African Strategies for Heath, AUSAID, USAID, MamaYe, MSH, UKAID and UNFPA.
Categories: Advocacy, Design, Update, Web
Tags: Africa, Design, Health, Web
October 27th 2014
Ann Pettifor
Accidents waiting to happen: the failure to address the social determinants of health
Guest blogger Susanna Mitchell discusses the social determinants of health and questions if ignoring health system inadequacies in developing areas could result in uncontrollable global pandemics?
Categories: Advocacy
Tags: Ebola, Pandemic, WorldHealth
February 6th 2014
Ann Pettifor
Breaking the Silence: Ai part of DfID’s Consortium to End FGM/C in a generation
Our programme director, Efua Dorkenoo, and Lynne Featherstone, Minister for International Development in the UK government,
The Ai team is proud to be a member of the consortium driving a social change campaign, to end FMC/C in one generation. The consortium is led by Efua Dorkenoo of Equality Now in partnership with DfID, and will support the increasing momentum to end FGM/C in Africa.
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Ann Pettifor
Leyla Hussein on the the aftermath of FGM/C and creating a space for its survivors
Below is an article by Leyla Hussein, one of our partners in the Dfid-backed Social Change Campaign to End FGM/C in a generation. It is published in today’s Huffington Post.
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November 26th 2013
Ann Pettifor
Ghana’s economy and the fight for maternal survival
"Youth unemployment rising in Africa: The case of Ghana." Source -www.shoutoutuk.org
Advocacy International advises a consortium led by OPTIONS UK on an advocacy campaign – MamaYe! – to increase maternal and newborn survival in Ghana. The MamaYe coalition in Ghana is led by Prof Adanu of the School of Public Health, and Vicky Okine of the Alliance of Reproductive Health Rights. Recently the MamaYe coalition appealed to Ghanaian MPs for an increase in spending on maternal and newborn health.
What chances are there of success for this campaign?
First, it is important to note that Ghana has halved levels of poverty since 1992. In that year, nearly 52% of Ghanaians lived in poverty. By 2006 Ghanians living in poverty had been halved to 28%, according to the World Bank.
Categories: Advocacy
Tags: Debt and Finance, Ghana, Health & Development, Maternal Health, Unemployment
October 31st 2013
Ann Pettifor
Engaging the African Public in Maternal and Newborn Survival
The challenge Ai faced when “cutting the diamond” on the MamaYe campaign was this: how to deepen the engagement of African men and women in this issue? How to raise the engagement of the African public, and thereby to raise expectations of survival of both mothers and newborns?
We were convinced that only when the African public in the countries with highest mortality rates, is full engaged, and there is widespread expectation that women and newborns must survive and thrive after childbirth – only then will attitudes, policies and practices change, and maternal mortality rates in African countries decline. If African politicians and policy makers are to be held to account for the survival of mothers and newborns – then public expectations must rise too. But how to engage the public? There are several answers to this question, but the one that required the most direct engagement, sacrifice and voluntary activity was: blood donation.
Blood deficits contribute to around 34% of maternal deaths and near misses in Africa. However, Sub-Saharan Africa has the lowest quantity of blood donated for transfusion per person in the world.
The Tanzanian MamaYe campaign, working with the National Blood Transfusion Service (NTBS), Arusha regional Hospital, and the Red Cross,was the first to mount a major blood recruitment and donation campaign, in January, 2013. Continue Reading
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September 1st 2013
Ann Pettifor
Reframing the Issue of Maternal Mortality in Africa
Reframing the issue away from failure, despair and mortality – and towards solutions, success and survival.
As part of our work advising a UKAid- funded consortium whose aim is to reduce maternal and newborn mortality in five African countries, Ai had to think of ways of engaging Africa’s men and women in the complex issue of maternal and newborn health. This is an issue that requires a spectrum of care – from the time that young girls reach reproductive age right through to maturity; and from conception to well after a child is born.
Categories: Advocacy
Tags: Gender Equality, Health & Development, Maternal Health, Social Change
August 25th 2013
Ann Pettifor
Public Engagement
Ai’s team has invaluable experience of engaging the public in complex issues – engagement which results in positive policy change at the highest levels.
Below is an outline of how the public were engaged in the complex issue of sovereign debt between 1994 and 2000 – and the impact of this public mobilisation on the policies of governments and international institutions. And in the next blog, we will explain how Ai has advised the British government on engaging the public in five of Africa’s poorest countries in the complex issue of maternal and newborn survival.
Categories: Advocacy
Tags: Debt and Finance, Global Economy, Social Change, Sovereign Debt
October 16th 2012
Ann Pettifor
Ai’s Creative Adviser launches Catapult – Crowdfunding for Girls
Ai’s Creative Adviser Maz Kessler has just launched Catapult, a crowdfunding website for girls. Maz designed and developed Catapult as a way to help address the huge global problem of gender inequality. As part of the launch, she penned this article introducing the project and its potential impact:
Originally published on The Huffington Post and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
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Categories: Advocacy, Design
Tags: Gender Equality
January 2nd 2012
Ann Pettifor
Advocacy International in Sierra Leone and Ethiopia
Sierra Leonian mother and her baby
Our director, Ann Pettifor and project manager, Georgia Lee have just returned from extended visits to Sierra Leone and Ethiopia, as part of a DFID-funded project to reduce maternal and newborn mortality. Ai is part of a consortium that includes the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, University College London, IMMPACT in Aberdeen and the White Ribbon Alliance.
