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A Measure of Commitment: Women's Sexual and Reproductive Health Risk Index for Sub-Saharan Africa
September 2, 2009
This report looks at the performance of Sub-Saharan African countries in meeting reproductive health targets in 47 countries and ranks them using a set of ten indicators in order of the highest to lowest risk. It highlights the need to increase the level of investment in reproductive health, step up policy reform and implementation, expand access to services in rural areas, strengthen health systems,
promote the realization of rights and abolish retrogressive cultural practices that perpetuate
gender inequities and put the lives of women and girls at risk.
Making Aid Effectiveness Work for Family Planning and Reproductive Health
September 1, 2009
This Population Action International Working Paper analyzes the five principles of aid effectiveness-
country ownership, alignment, harmonization, managing for results, and mutual accountability-from a family planning and reproductive health perspective. It also describes how the Paris Declaration has changed the ways of managing and delivering aid; highlights entry points and obstacles for champions working to improve funding and policies; and makes recommendations for civil society organizations, governments and donors.
A Practical Guide to Integrating Reproductive Health and HIV/AIDS into Grant Proposals to the Global Fund
August 28, 2009
Experience with implementation of integration initiatives in countries around the world shows that scale up and sustainability requires attention to policy and program operations issues. This document, with links to a range of resources, will help CCMs, civil society organizations and others developing proposals for the Global Fund that contribute to preventing HIV and mitigating the effects of the AIDS pandemic through programs that link and integrate RH and HIV/AIDS.
Vulnerability and Resilience in the Face of Climate Change: Current Research and Needs for Population Information
August 15, 2009
Studies of vulnerability and resilience have multiplied with the growing realization that societal
response, particularly societal capacity to adapt to climate change impacts, determines both the severity of impacts and the costs of adaptation. Although research in vulnerability and resilience began by emphasizing vulnerability, the focus has shifted at least in part to resilience as a positive concept that can be more integrated with general development goals.
Projecting Population, Projecting Climate Change: Population in IPCC Scenarios
June 23, 2009
Population Action International’s latest working paper, Projecting Population, Projecting Climate Change: Population in IPCC Scenarios, shows that population growth is not adequately accounted for in the emissions scenarios produced by the Special Report on Emissions Scenarios of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). This is the second in a three part series that explores role of population dynamics in climate change mitigation and adaptation.
The Importance of Population for Climate Change Challenges and Solutions
June 8, 2009
Climate change is one of the greatest challenges facing humanity in the 21st century. It has been historically driven by an atmospheric build-up of greenhouse gases (GHGs) generated mostly by the industrialized world. The consequences of climate change-more intense hurricanes and typhoons, rising sea levels, drought, heat waves, major disruptions to agriculture-will be felt by communities around the world.
Reproductive Health Supplies in Six Countries
June 3, 2009
Reproductive Health Supplies in Six Countries: Themes and Entry Points in Policies, Systems and Funding, identifies the challenges faced by reproductive health programs in Bangladesh, Ghana, Mexico, Nicaragua, Tanzania, and Uganda. Funding constraints, combined with a weak commitment to prioritize the purchase of reproductive health supplies on the side of the recipient countries and a limited capacity for distribution, have created an unstable environment for supplies worldwide. The report, and its six associated case studies, calls for renewed attention to reproductive health supplies to avoid putting the health of millions of women at risk.
How Do Recent Population Trends Matter To Climate Change?
April 30, 2009
Population growth is one of the driving forces behind the growth of greenhouse gas emissions that cause climate change, along with economic growth and technological change. Rapid population growth also hinders socioeconomic development and increases human vulnerability to the devastating impacts of climate change. Population Action International’s new working paper “How Do Recent Population Trends Matter to Climate Change?” is the first in a three-part series that will deepen understanding of the relationships between population and climate change.
Re-Costing Cairo: Revised Estimate of the Resource Requirements to Achieve the ICPD Goals
March 3, 2009
In 1994 the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) in Cairo produced estimates of the resource requirements to achieve universal access to a range of population-related programs. It was estimated that by the year 2010, it would cost US$29.2 billion annually in current dollars to achieve the costed interventions of the ICPD by 2015.By 2008 a consensus developed that the 1994 ICPD cost estimates were out of date. Escalating need, rising drug and supply costs, and the scale of the resources needed to address the HIV/AIDS pandemic undermined the relevance of the original estimates.There was also a need to integrate post-1994 information regarding the set of interventions that made up a complete package of reproductive health services, the status of this care in developing countries, and also its cost and current needs.
Condoms and CFLs: Environmental Behavior Change Lessons from Public Health
December 22, 2008
In 2007, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's (IPCC) Fourth Assessment Report recognized climate change as a global issue with the potential for catastrophic environmental effects. Likewise, by the late 1980s HIV/AIDS was identified as an undeniable pandemic that would affect all countries. The similarities between climate change and HIV/AIDS extend beyond the global nature of these issues, though. Both have complex etiologies, the scientific bases of which are difficult to translate to the general public, and neither is fully understood, even by experts in their respective fields.
