We are pleased to share that our August conference call is now available to download. On this month's call we were joined by Emily Laurie, Project Manager for the Worlds Largest Lesson, one pillar of an exciting new campaign called Project Everyone which you can find out more about here . Project Everyone was established with one objective: to make the new Global Goals famous around the world so...
#WBW2015 Every year 1 st -7 th August is observed as the World Breastfeeding Week, to celebrate, protect, promote, and support breastfeeding . This year we observe 25 years since the Innocenti declaration (1990), which recognised that breastfeeding provides ideal nutrition for infants and contributes to their healthy growth and development. Now, why do we need to dedicate one whole week to something as natural as breastfeeding?
By Matt Bell, Grassroots Campaigner from London. In July I went to the RESULTS International Conference in Washington DC with 530 other grassroot volunteers and partners from 23 countries. The first 3 days of the conference were used to get to know other RESULTS volunteers from around the world and share ideas and opinions, hearing from inspirational speakers and to learn, improve and sharpen advocacy skills through training sessions and interactive workshops. Then on the last day...
Over 6,000 global leaders, decision makers, government officials and civil society representatives (including RESULTS UK) gathered in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia for the first of three major international summits in 2015; The Third Financing for Development Conference (FFD). Steve Lewis and Laura Kerr share their top five moments from the conference. 1. UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon speaks at the Civil Society Conference The weekend before the conference, nearly 1,000...
Following the Third Financing for Development Conference in Addis Ababa, two blogs written by RESULTS UK child health team, Jim Calverley and Megan Wilson-Jones, were posted on the Global Health Council's blog. Below is a summary and link to each of the blogs: 1. The Global Financing Facility (GFF) for Every Women Every Child: A paradigm shift in development financing [caption id="attachment_15912" align="alignright" width="300"]...
This week around 5000 ministers, officials, financiers and advocates are in Addis Ababa at the Financing for Development conference. The event will set the stage for the next fifteen years of development efforts. If the right mix of financing streams can be identified then the world can feel confident about the ambition to eliminate the worst forms of poverty across the globe by 2030. Yesterday 20 nations came together to launch the ‘Addis Ababa Tax Compact’. This is an initiative to...
Today, one of the most important international conferences of 2015 begins. Decision makers from around the world are meeting in Addis Ababa for the Third International Conference on Financing for Development (FFD3) to decide how we will finance development for the next 15 years. It’s a watershed moment for financing all areas of development and we’re going to be right in the middle of it ensuring that finance for health is top of the agenda!...
RESULTS UK hosts Financing for Development event in Addis Ababa Since the start of the year we’ve been talking about the significance of 2015 for international development. In September, the Sustainable Development Goals will be launched in New York and in November, global leaders in Paris must make important decisions on how they will tackle climate change. However, the stage will be set for those two events at the third Financing for Development Conference in Addis Ababa which begins next...
We pleased to share that a recording of our July conference call is now available to download. On this months call we joined by two very special guests to launch our powerful new campaign - Leave no-one behind- Health for All . We first heard from Seth Berkley, CEO of Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance who shared how our campaigning ahead of the Gavi replenishment in January is helping to save millions of...
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