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For Immediate Release
The African Women Leaders Network: Bringing Women’s Realities to Policy Decisions
The African Women Leaders Network for Reproductive Health and Family Planning (AWLN) will hold a series of high-level policy meetings with Ghanaian parliamentarians and stakeholders between the 10th-14th of October 2011. This will include meetings with Prof. Mike Ocquaye, the 1st Deputy Speaker of Parliament, Members of the Women’s Caucus in Parliament, and the Finance and Health Committees.
On 13th October, AWLN will hold a public dialogue with policy makers and other key stakeholders from 9am-5pm at the MÖvenpick Hotel, Accra. The policy dialogue will focus on the role of family planning as a developmental tool to achieve reductions in maternal/child mortality and emphasize the value of Government investments in family planning commodities and services.
The African Women Leaders Network for Reproductive Health and Family Planning (AWLN) is a network of 35 African women leaders from government, civil society, and the arts, who have committed to advocate for greater support for family planning and reproductive health by governments, donors and international agencies. Formed by the African Women’s Development Fund (AWDF) and the International Planned Parenthood Federation—Africa Regional Office (IPPF-ARO), the AWLN seeks to build upon the collective power of African women’s voices to ensure quality reproductive health and family planning services and supplies throughout Africa. The Network is supported by the Advance Family Planning initiative of the Bill and Melinda Gates Institute on Population and Reproductive Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Press Enquires:
Abigail Ony Nwaohuocha (AWLN Communications Consultant)
Email: Abigail.ony@africlub.net/awdf
Tel: 024 8440 425
Web: http://www.africawln.org