Category: Topic

Gender Data: Why and How to Use Gender Statistics to Propel Your Advocacy

Online

Achieving progress for girls and women depends on accurate, gender data to drive evidence-based policy and decision-making, and hold governments accountable for leaving no one behind. However, collecting, identifying, and using gender data for advocacy can be challenging. Too often, gender data simply doesn’t exist—and when it does, it isn’t widely circulated or applied to […]

Leaving No One Behind: How to Prioritize Girls’ and Women’s Rights in UHC

Online

Universal Health Coverage holds the transformative promise to provide all people, everywhere with access to the quality health services they need, without financial hardship. But this vision of leaving no one behind will not be fulfilled without a strong focus on the health and rights of girls and women. To put the “universal” in Universal […]

Leaving No One Behind: How to Prioritize Girls’ and Women’s Rights in UHC

Online

Universal Health Coverage holds the transformative promise to provide all people, everywhere with access to the quality health services they need, without financial hardship. But this vision of leaving no one behind will not be fulfilled without a strong focus on the health and rights of girls and women. To put the “universal” in Universal […]

Youth Advocacy Day (YAD)

San Francisco City Hall San Francisco City Hall, San Fransisco, CA, United States

Youth Advocacy Day (YAD) is an all-day event committed to youth empowerment and civic engagement for San Francisco’s youth. It is a day in which high school students have the opportunity to meet with city leaders and public officials to share their thoughts, concerns, and questions about issues they care about as young people. Youth […]

Free

Youth Advocacy Day (YAD)

San Francisco City Hall San Francisco City Hall, San Fransisco, CA, United States

Youth Advocacy Day (YAD) is an all-day event committed to youth empowerment and civic engagement for San Francisco’s youth. It is a day in which high school students have the opportunity to meet with city leaders and public officials to share their thoughts, concerns, and questions about issues they care about as young people. Youth […]

Free

Call for Proposals: Leading From the South Round 4

AWDF is happy to invite proposals for grants from all eligible women-led and women’s rights groups and organisations in Africa and the Middle East under Leading From the South. Applications are due 17 June 2019. LFS is a funding initiative designed and managed by AWDF and three other women’s rights organisations: Women’s Fund Asia, Fondo de Mujeres del […]

Call for Proposals: Leading From the South Round 4

AWDF is happy to invite proposals for grants from all eligible women-led and women’s rights groups and organisations in Africa and the Middle East under Leading From the South. Applications are due 17 June 2019. LFS is a funding initiative designed and managed by AWDF and three other women’s rights organisations: Women’s Fund Asia, Fondo de Mujeres del […]

Consultancy: Development of Child Protection Minimum Standard (CPMS) on Safe Spaces, 2nd Edition CPMS Revision

Background A revision of the Minimum Standards for Child Protection in Humanitarian Action (CPMS) has been ongoing since the beginning of 2018. This is the first revision to the CPMS since its launch in 2012. The updated 2nd edition will: Reflect sector learning since 2012; Strengthen and clarify the evidence base; Streamline the content and structure […]

Consultancy: Development of Child Protection Minimum Standard (CPMS) on Safe Spaces, 2nd Edition CPMS Revision

Background A revision of the Minimum Standards for Child Protection in Humanitarian Action (CPMS) has been ongoing since the beginning of 2018. This is the first revision to the CPMS since its launch in 2012. The updated 2nd edition will: Reflect sector learning since 2012; Strengthen and clarify the evidence base; Streamline the content and structure […]

72nd Session of the World Health Organization’s (WHO) World Health Assembly (WHA)

World Health Organisation Headquarters Geneva, Switzerland

The World Health Assembly is the decision-making body of WHO. It is attended by delegations from all WHO Member States and focuses on a specific health agenda prepared by the Executive Board. The main functions of the World Health Assembly are to determine the policies of the Organization, appoint the Director-General, supervise financial policies, and […]