On 6 July in Niamey, Niger, the World Bank, the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and the West African Health Organization (WAHO) are hosting a day-long, high-level partnership meeting in support of the Sahel Women’s Empowerment and Demographic Dividend (SWEDD) Project. This meeting will take place on the margins of the regional African Union Summit. This meeting aims to support cross-sector partnerships in SWEDD’s ambitious programmatic expansion. Late last year, GBCHealth supported a successful forum in Abidjan that began the…

UNAIDS and GBCHealth will be convening a high-level business roundtable to reignite interest in the AIDS response from a business perspective, and establish the foundations for a new business-led initiative to kick off in early 2020. This roundtable will explore the following questions: 1) Why should businesses look at HIV/AIDS through a risk and opportunity lens?; 2) What are companies presently doing to address the challenge?; 3) How can business collaborate with UNAIDS to end AIDS by 2030? Agenda: 4:30-4:35…

Event Overview With only 11 years left to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals, the international community must explore the solutions offered by alternative funding models. This session will convene a group of thought leaders and practitioners to discuss the next frontier for development finance by evaluating what we’ve learned about the current landscape and identifying the steps forward. We’ll take stock of the successes and steps forward in health financing over the past year and will focus on catalyzing ways…

This year marks the 25th anniversary of the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) in Cairo, where 179 governments adopted a landmark Programme of Action which set out to empower women and girls for their sake, and for the benefit of their families, communities and nations. We have made incredible gains since then, but too many people are still being left behind. And too many nations have not been able to fully reap the demographic dividend because young people…

GBCHealth President Nancy Wildfeir-Field will be participating in this panel discussion, taking place during the Nairobi Summit on ICPD25. Session time To Be Announced. The Governments of the Republic of Kenya and the Kingdom of Denmark, together with UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund, are convening the Nairobi Summit on ICPD25: Accelerating the Promise, as it marks the 25th anniversary of the adoption of the landmark Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) from 12…

During the meeting, highlights of CAMA’s 2019 impact will be shared, and CAMA’s Strategic Plan for the next three years (2020 – 2022) will be presented. Please contact Ochuko Keyamo-Onyige at okeyamo@gbchealth.org for more information.