ARROW and Partners at the
International Family Planning Conference (ICFP)

ARROW and some of our partners will be at the ICFP being held in Nusa Dua, Indonesia next week from January 25-28.

If you're going to be at the ICFP, do stop by our exhibition booth (No. 47) at the conference where publications and other resources by ARROW and partners will be featured and disseminated. Don’t forget to say hello to Uma from ARROW who will be at the booth.

And if you're missing the conference, you can follow us on Twitter (@ARROW_Women) where we will be live tweeting from various interventions using the hashtag #ICFP.

But more excitingly, we will be on Periscope live streaming some of our interventions listed below, so keep an eye on our Twitter feed for alerts.

Our Executive Director Sivananthi Thanenthiran will be participating in the following events at the ICFP.

Advancing the Goal of Universal Access
Panel discussion hosted by the Population Council

Sunday, January 24: 6.00 - 9.00 pm
Sofitel Bali Nusa Dua

The Sustainable Development Goals call for universal access to sexual and reproductive health-care services and the integration of reproductive health into national strategies. What will it take to get us there?

2016 Quality Innovation Challenge
Organized by the David and Lucile Packard Foundation

Tuesday, January 26: 1.20 pm
Singaraha Hall 2

The Packard Foundation is looking for champions with innovative ideas to improve quality in sexual and reproductive health and empower women and girls in new ways. Ideas submitted during the lunch session will be eligible for consideration at the Quality Innovation Challenge lunch event.

SRHR Indicators in a Post-2015 World: Where We Are and Where We Need to Go
Organized by the Guttmacher Institute

Tuesday, January 26: 2.30–3.50 pm
Kintamani 6

This panel will review and assess the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) indicators relating to sexual and reproductive health (SRHR) that have emerged from the official UN process thus far. The discussion during the panel and with attendees will focus on next steps to influence the remaining indicators process, how to hold governments (of donor and recipient countries) accountable, and ways to keep up the pressure for better measurement to advance a more comprehensive and progressive SRHR agenda.

What Is Our Responsibility to Women When Contraception Fails or Is Not Used?
Organized by the Guttmacher Institute

Tuesday, January 26: 4.20–5.40 pm
Kintamani 6

Programs to improve the reproductive health of adolescents have often focused on providing young people with information about sexuality, reproductive health and contraception, and with providing access to youth friendly reproductive health care. Yet deeply entrenched socio-cultural norms and practices around women’s roles, health and fertility influence the ability of young women to understand and claim their rights to sexual and reproductive health. This panel will explore three approaches to social and normative change in support of girls’ empowerment, including delaying the age of marriage, developing gender equitable attitudes and providing comprehensive sexuality education in primary schools.

Forward

Based in Malaysia, the Asian-Pacific Resource and Research Centre for Women (ARROW) has been working since 1993 to champion women’s sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR). We try to achieve this through interlinked strategies of information and communications for change, monitoring and research for evidence-based advocacy, strengthening partnerships for advocacy and organisational development.

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ARROW and Partners at the International Family Planning Conference (ICFP)

ARROW and Partners at the
International Family Planning Conference (ICFP)