tailieunhanh - Women-friendly health services Experiences in maternal care

The government aims for 100% enrollment as part of the MDG targets for 2015, with girls' enrollment share being 50%. Various obstacles to achieving this goal exist, such as lack of school facilities, in particular girls' schools in rural areas. The problem is even greater for girls' secondary schools, which are very few and scattered. Insecurity, combined with distance and lack of transport, prevents especially girls from accessing school facilities. Lack of female teachers particularly in rural areas; outdated curricula including the portrayal of gender roles; and schools lacking water supply and toilet facilities - all work as obstacles to girls accessing educational facilities. The custom of marrying. | Women-friendly health services Experiences in maternal care Report of a WHO UNICEF UNFPA Workshop Mexico City 26-28 January 1999 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS This workshop and the report has truly been the result of an international collaboration. We acknowledge the leadership and vision of WHO UNFPA and UNICEF who have brought global attention to the need for complementing the quality of maternal health care with a rights-based approach. We would like to express our gratitude to the Government of Mexico for hosting the workshop. The staff of the UNICEF Mexico Office particularly Manuel Moreno are to be commended for the flawless organisation and logistics and for ensuring that the workshop participants had a pleasant and comfortable stay. A word of thanks to Koenraad Vanormelingen Rema Venu and Ulla Gade Bisgaard from UNICEF and to France Donnay and Edouard Lindsay from UNFPA for systematising the experiences and lessons learnt and writing the report. Also many thanks to Jelka Zupan from WHO and Anne Tinker from The World Bank for peer reviewing the report and to Yvette Benedek and Sophie Saurat for editing and translating it. We also would like to acknowledge the very useful contributions of the presenters who shared their experience in improving the quality of maternal care at country level Yasmin Ali Haque Jaime Telleria Tania Lagos Keti Nemsadze Affete McCaw Binns Olga Frisancho Hiranthi de Silva Moncef Sidhom and Emmanuel Kaijuha. Thanks also to Amy Pollack Barbara Kerstiens and Marjorie Koblinsky for sharing their experiences in developing tools and procedures for assuring quality. We thank Helen Armstrong Lindsay Edouard Anne Tinker Jelka Zupan and Duangvadee Sungkholbol for sharing the lessons learned by the UN Agencies and The World Bank in their support of safe motherhood in developing countries over the last ten years. Thanks to the Chairpersons for facilitating the working group discussions and to the Rapporteurs for their excellent coverage of the presentations.