Le Partenariat de Ouagadougou donne la parole à des femmes d’influence La journée internationale qui célèbre chaque 8 mars dans le monde les droits des femmes, appelle également à la réduction des inégalités entre hommes et femmes. Cette année la communauté invite à travers le thème « Investir sur les femmes : accélérer le rythme » à plus […]
La 12ème édition de la Réunion Annuelle du Partenariat de Ouagadougou (RAPO), s’est tenue du 11 au 13 Décembre 2023 au Sofitel Abidjan Hôtel Ivoire sous le thème : «Genre et Santé Reproductive : les stratégies pour un changement social et comportement en faveur de la jeunesse». Évaluer les avancées en matière de Santé Reproductive, […]
Everyone, equally, has a human right to health. 1 However, our health systems, communities, and nations do not support people’s health equally or equitably. The COVID-19 pandemic has greatly underscored health disparities: SARS-CoV-2 infections and associated deaths differently affect women, service workers, economically disadvantaged people, and other population groups. 2 Yet, even in the best of times, […]
General Summary/Purpose Breakthrough ACTION is a five-year cooperative agreement funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) to lead their social behavior change (SBC) programming around the world. Breakthrough ACTION is a partnership led by the Johns Hopkins Center for Communication Programs (CCP) in collaboration with Save the Children, ThinkAction, ideas42, Camber Collective, […]
Get those facts straight once and for all… You know what it’s for, but do you know how the morning after pill actually works? A new survey launched by ellaOne, the most effective* morning after pill, revealed that 59% of 1,027 18- to 35-year-olds did not know that the morning after pill works by delaying […]
Pregnant with her second child, 30-year-old Ndiabou Niang was enduring pelvic pain, but couldn’t afford to access prenatal care in Diabe Salla, a village on the outskirts of the small town of Thilogne in north-east Senegal. Her husband was unemployed and her earnings of under CFAF 10,000 (17 USD) from selling seasonal fruits in the […]
The Year 2020 will be remembered as the year that heralded great global changes in reaction to the COVID-19 pandemic. This debilitating contagion has forced the entire world to rethink the future. Among them are stimulating the global economies and instituting newer social, professional and institutional protocols. The first six months of the year 2020 […]
Marie Ba is the new director of the Ouagadougou Partnership Coordination Unit. The Ouagadougou Partnership is a coalition of nine francophone West African countries—Benin, Burkina Faso, Côte d’Ivoire, Guinea, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Senegal, and Togo—that are working together to expand family planning in the region. “She is the right leader to guide the coordination unit […]
The last 10 years has been a time of immense growth and innovation for the family planning community, as well as new challenges and opportunities. Here, the Johns Hopkins Center for Communication Programs-led Knowledge SUCCESS project reflects on 10 defining achievements, in no particular order of importance, that have shaped and continue to inform family planning programs […]
Recently a report was launched in Kenya’s capital, Nairobi that claimed countries in Sub-Saharan countries have observed a spike in the uptake of contraceptives among women of reproductive age. African nations like Cameroon, Chad, Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Zimbabwe, Côte d’Ivoire, Kenya and Ghana have witnessed the spike since 2012 being trailblazers in birth control. Côte […]
