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Regional Policy Dialogue: Adopting the SIGI index data to address barriers to SRMNCAH in humanitarian settings
Sixty percent of preventable maternal deaths, 53% of under-five deaths, and 45% of neonatal deaths take place in settings of conflict, displacement, and natural disasters.
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Event type: Lectures, seminars, panel discussions
Start date: 14 July 2021 | Start time: 21:00 UTC +00:00
End date: 11 August 2021 | End time: 21:00 UTC +00:00
Location:
Zoom
Event description
Sixty percent of preventable maternal deaths, 53% of under-five deaths, and 45% of neonatal deaths take place in settings of conflict, displacement, and natural disasters. The majority of those most at risk of preventable maternal and child mortality are living, or over the next 15 years will be living in fragile or humanitarian settings.
The Austria Development Agency (ADA) and UN Women Program on Women’s Empowerment in Sexual, Reproductive, Maternal, New-born, Child and Adolescent Health (SRMNCAH) Rights in Humanitarian Settings in the Horn of Africa Region (POWER) seeks to address some of these challenges by working on gender equality and women’s empowerment to address the barriers that are preventing women, children, and adolescents from demanding and realizing their rights to SRMNCAH services.
The OECD Development Centre’s Social Institutions and Gender Index (SIGI) is a valuable tool for supporting countries to track progress on women’s empowerment. One of the priorities for POWER is seeking to establish rights-based national and local SRMNCAH Frameworks. Towards this objective, the POWER program works to improve monitoring by duty bearers to deliver on SRMNCAH commitments in humanitarian settings. This policy dialogue will explore the existing indicators and potential measures to track the implementation of commitments to address gender-related barriers to SRMNCAH services in humanitarian settings.
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