UNFPA Deputy Representative, Dr. Zeh Kakanou,
Head of the Division for Cooperation at MINSANTE
and Mr. Basakan Roger, Technical
Adviser N°3 of the MINEPAT. Photo credit:
UNFPA Cameroon; July 2023.
High ranking officials from the Ministries of External Relations(MINREX), of Public Health (MINSANTE), and of Economy, Planning and Regional Development (MINEPAT) alongside Civil Society Organisations, media persons & other stakeholders receive a training on advocacy for domestic ressource mobilisation for sustainable financing for Family Planning.
The training is facilitated by the UNFPA Supplies Partnership and the UNFPA West and Central Africa Regional Office in partnership with the Gates Institute. Participants include the Technical Advicer N°3 of MINEPAT, the Head of Division for Cooperation at MINSANTE, the Director of Family Health at the MINSANTE, the GIZ Regional Office in Yaounde, the US Agency for International Development among others.
The training, which took place in Douala from the 3rd to 7th July 2023, focused on “SMART Advocacy”-a practical, adaptable & transformational approach focused on decision makers to get broad, long-term goals. It is a framework to establish a strategic, locally-led advocacy effort to increase political & financial support for Family Planning. This goes in line with the UNFPA Supplies Partnership which aims at ensuring that all women and girls have access to a range of reproductive health commodities when they want them and whenever they have the need.
Photo credit, UNFPA Cameroon.
July 2023.
"Family Planning is an accelerator in the fight to end preventable maternal mortality. It can reduce maternal mortality rate by 40%. As such, this approach is of very great interest to the country and to UNFPA." says Noemi Dalmonte, UNFPA Cameroon Deputy Representative.
Among civil society organisations present was the Cameroon National Association for Family Welfare, represented by Armel Nyadjo "We need financial ressources to be endowed with a variety of solutions to our various challenges."
This training came not long after Cameroon adopted and launched the Family Planning 2030 Commitments on 29th June 2023. Furthermore, the country had earlier signed with UNFPA, a Compact of Commitment for the co-funding of contraceptives & life saving maternal health medicines. These constitute a set of concrete actions are now in place and running to increase the use of modern contraception from . 15.4% to 35% in Cameroon.
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Deputy Representative and other dignitaries
at the launching of Cameroon's FP2030
Committments. Photo Credit: UNFPA Cameroon
June 2023.
