The African Medical and Research Foundation (AMREF) commits to invest an additional US $20 million per year in maternal and child health programmes

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Description

The African Medical and Research Foundation (AMREF), in partnership with its donors and sponsors, will be investing an additional US $20 million per year in maternal and child health programmes, in 20 countries in Africa, including the training of 600 new midwives annually, retraining of 5,000 existing midwives to update their skills in saving lives of mothers and newborns, and up to 10,000 community health workers to help families provide care to mothers and children at home, and link effectively with health facilities when needed. This new commitment also includes considerable expansion of service delivery in direct community interventions. All this will enable AMREF to reach an additional 0.5 million women of reproductive age and 1.5 million children with health-enhancing interventions that will contribute to progress towards MDGs 4 and 5.

Implementation of the Project/Activity

The African Medical and Research Foundation (AMREF) will provide additional financial support in maternal and child health programmes, train new midwives and retrain existing midwives to update their skills. For additional information, please refer to the following publication : <a href="http://www.amref.org/silo/files/amref-annual-report-2010.pdf">The African Medical and Research Foundation (AMREF) Annual Report 2010</a>

Partners

Donors and Sponsors of The African Medical and Research Foundation (AMREF)

SDGS & Targets

Goal 5

Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls

5.1

End all forms of discrimination against all women and girls everywhere

5.1.1

Whether or not legal frameworks are in place to promote, enforce and monitor equality and non‑discrimination on the basis of sex

5.2

Eliminate all forms of violence against all women and girls in the public and private spheres, including trafficking and sexual and other types of exploitation

5.2.1

Proportion of ever-partnered women and girls aged 15 years and older subjected to physical, sexual or psychological violence by a current or former intimate partner in the previous 12 months, by form of violence and by age

5.2.2

Proportion of women and girls aged 15 years and older subjected to sexual violence by persons other than an intimate partner in the previous 12 months, by age and place of occurrence

5.3

Eliminate all harmful practices, such as child, early and forced marriage and female genital mutilation

5.3.1

Proportion of women aged 20-24 years who were married or in a union before age 15 and before age 18

5.3.2

Proportion of girls and women aged 15-49 years who have undergone female genital mutilation/cutting, by age

5.4

Recognize and value unpaid care and domestic work through the provision of public services, infrastructure and social protection policies and the promotion of shared responsibility within the household and the family as nationally appropriate

5.4.1

Proportion of time spent on unpaid domestic and care work, by sex, age and location

5.5

Ensure women’s full and effective participation and equal opportunities for leadership at all levels of decision-making in political, economic and public life

5.5.1

Proportion of seats held by women in (a) national parliaments and (b) local governments

5.5.2

Proportion of women in managerial positions

5.6

Ensure universal access to sexual and reproductive health and reproductive rights as agreed in accordance with the Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development and the Beijing Platform for Action and the outcome documents of their review conferences

5.6.1

Proportion of women aged 15-49 years who make their own informed decisions regarding sexual relations, contraceptive use and reproductive health care

5.6.2

Number of countries with laws and regulations that guarantee full and equal access to women and men aged 15 years and older to sexual and reproductive health care, information and education

5.a

Undertake reforms to give women equal rights to economic resources, as well as access to ownership and control over land and other forms of property, financial services, inheritance and natural resources, in accordance with national laws

5.a.1

(a) Proportion of total agricultural population with ownership or secure rights over agricultural land, by sex; and (b) share of women among owners or rights-bearers of agricultural land, by type of tenure

5.a.2

Proportion of countries where the legal framework (including customary law) guarantees women’s equal rights to land ownership and/or control

5.b

Enhance the use of enabling technology, in particular information and communications technology, to promote the empowerment of women

5.b.1

Proportion of individuals who own a mobile telephone, by sex

5.c

Adopt and strengthen sound policies and enforceable legislation for the promotion of gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls at all levels

5.c.1

Proportion of countries with systems to track and make public allocations for gender equality and women’s empowerment

SDG 14 targets covered

Deliverables & Timeline

17 December, 2021

Resources mobilized

Financing (in USD)

100000000

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Timeline

01 January 1970 (start date)

01 January 2015 (date of completion)

Entity

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SDGs

Geographical coverage

20 selected countries in Africa

More information

http://www.amref.org/

Countries

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