{"id":4681,"date":"2011-10-07T17:12:24","date_gmt":"2011-10-07T17:12:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.africlub.net\/awdf\/?p=2063"},"modified":"2015-08-13T08:09:46","modified_gmt":"2015-08-13T08:09:46","slug":"the-african-women-leaders-network-bringing-womens-realities-to-policy-decisions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/awdf.org\/OldSite\/the-african-women-leaders-network-bringing-womens-realities-to-policy-decisions\/","title":{"rendered":"The African Women Leaders Network: Bringing Women\u2019s Realities to Policy Decisions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><span lang=\"en\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">PRESS RELEASE<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en\"><strong>For Immediate Release<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><strong>The African Women Leaders Network: Bringing Women\u2019s Realities to Policy Decisions<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en\">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 10<sup>th<\/sup>-14<sup>th<\/sup> of October 2011. This will include meetings with Prof. Mike Ocquaye, the 1<sup>st<\/sup> Deputy Speaker of Parliament, Members of the Women\u2019s Caucus in Parliament, and the Finance and Health Committees.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en\">On 13th October, AWLN will hold a public dialogue with policy makers and other key stakeholders from 9am-5pm at the M\u00d6venpick 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.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en\">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\u2019s Development Fund (AWDF) and the International Planned Parenthood Federation\u2014Africa Regional Office (IPPF-ARO), the AWLN seeks to build upon the collective power of African women\u2019s 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<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en\"><strong>Press Enquires:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en\">Abigail Ony Nwaohuocha (AWLN Communications Consultant)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en\">Email: <a href=\"mailto:Abigail.ony@africlub.net\/awdf\">Abigail.ony@africlub.net\/awdf<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en\">Tel: 024 8440 425<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en\">Web: http:\/\/www.africawln.org<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[571,573,65,552,743,943,556,904,944,178,163],"class_list":["post-4681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press","tag-afp","tag-african-women-leaders-network","tag-awdf","tag-awln","tag-family-planning","tag-ghana-policy-engagment","tag-ippfar","tag-maternal-health","tag-maternal-mortality","tag-reproductive-health","tag-women"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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