Conference Overview
Now is a critical time to prioritize child and adolescent health. The COVID-19 pandemic is threatening progress made as health systems struggle to rapidly respond to this crisis and children and adolescents are often bearing the brunt of the impact. Increased violence against children, reduced access to routine healthcare, especially sexual and reproductive services, and stunted social development are just a few of the issues exacerbated by this global pandemic.
GHPC 2021 continued the dialogue and action from our July virtual event Lives in the Balance: A COVID-19 Summit for the Health and Well-Being of Women, Children, and Adolescents hosted by CORE Group and the Partnership for Maternal, Newborn, & Child Health (PMNCH) which was attended by over 3,000 participants globally. Implementers, UN agencies, academics, donors, private sector, youth, civil society, and community health advocates operating locally and internationally were invited to participate in this engaging, highly interactive, three-day, virtual event.
GHPC21 aimed to:
- STRENGTHEN commitment and technical assistance for child and adolescent health and empower young people to advocate for their rights to health and well-being
- MOBILIZE and strengthen cross-sectoral partnerships and innovation for child and adolescent health research, advocacy, implementation, and financing in the next decade
- SHARE evidence-based research, disaggregated data, and emerging solutions to ensure improved health outcomes for babies, toddlers, children and adolescents
Opening Plenary Session
8:00 AM – 9:00 AM
Unlocking Potential: Prioritizing Child & Adolescent Health and Well-Being in the New Decade
Presenters: Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus Director-General, Wold Health Organization; Grace Gatera Mental Health and NCDs Advocate, Rawanda; Sadia Rahman Your Focal Point, FP 2020; Mercy Juma Africa Correspondent, BBC; Lisa Hilmi Executive Director, CORE Group; Dr. Anshu Banerjee, World Health Organization; Andrew Morley President and CEO, World Vision International; Meseret Zelalem Director of RMNCAH-N Federal Ministry of Health of Ethiopia, Ministry of Health; Ahmed Arale Secretariat Director for CORE Group Polio & Global Health Security Project for Horn of Africa; Adalia Tara, Musical Artist
Cultural performance by Adalia Tara
Welcome Address by Lisa M. Hilmi, CORE Group Executive Director and Ahmed Arale, CGPP and CORE Group Board member
Opening Remarks and Introductions by Mercy Juma, BBC Africa Correspondent
Keynote Address by Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreysus, Director General, World Health Organization
Panel Discussion As highlighted by the WHO-UNICEF-Lancet Commission on “A Future for the World’s Children” and the Every Woman Every Child (EWEC) “Global Strategy for Women’s, Children’s and Adolescent’s Health” now is a critical time to prioritize child and adolescent health and unlock potential. In this Opening Plenary session the Panelists’ experiences will help frame the discussions in the for the following concurrent breakout sessions to help identify mechanisms to achieve these goals and set the tone for the conference on Unlocking Potential and Prioritizing Child and Adolescent Health and Well-Being. The discussion will focus on and draw out strategies and technical components required to unlock potential relating to improving well-being, nutrition, disability, climate change, economic empowerment, early childhood development, and/or digital education.
Concurrent Sessions
9:00 AM – 10:00 AM
1.) Enabling Community Engagement and Integration to Build Resilience
Presenters: Kenneth Mulondo, USAID/ICAN; Robert Mwadime Professor, USAID/ICAN; Humphreys Nsona Programme Manager and Head of IMCI Unit, Malawi Ministry of Health; Anne Laevens Health Manager, UNICEF South Sudan; Maureen Kerubo Momanyi Health Specialist, Community/Primary Care Systems UNICEF; Bizuhan Gelaw Birhanu Health Specialist, UNICEF Ethiopia; Anne Linn Malarial Technical Advisor, USAID
Learning and Adapting Resilience-focused SBC in Uganda
This session describes a process to engage communities in adapting and recommitting to community resilience plans which include emphasis on child nutrition and girls’ education priorities identified by the communities. Unlocking child and adolescent potential requires the enabling environment, including their families and communities, to support their growth, development, and well-being. Especially during shocks such as COVID-19, this community, collective commitment and action is critical so that child and adolescents do not loose attention or support, and continue to develop. USAID/ICAN
Institutionalizing Integrated Community Case Management to End Preventable Child Deaths: Recommendations and Outcomes from a Technical Consultation and Country Action Planning
This session will emphasis the need for sharing the learnings and recommendations from the 2019 technical consultation on Institutionalizing iCCM to end preventable child deaths. The session on assessing country progress in implementing these 2019 recommendations, along with examples of their implementation, aims to help consolidate country learning and reinvigorate commitment to iCCM. Advancing the recommendations from this consultation will also require engagement from practitioners working on malaria, child health, community health, primary health care, and universal health coverage, and this conference will convene these diverse stakeholder groups. Mobilizing these cross-sectoral partnerships is essential for iCCM to become truly institutionalized and for the recommendations to be implemented.
Malawi Ministry of Health, UNICEF South Sudan, UNICEF Ethiopia, UNICEF
2.) Nurturing Care Frameworks and Delivery Models in Fragile Settings
Presenters: Tom Davis Partnership Leader for Health & Nutrition, World Vision International; Cynthia Fosuah SBS Specialist, World Vision Ghana; Paul Stephenson Technical Director, Child Protection and Participation, World Vision International; Viktorya Sargsyan Technical Advisor, Education, World Vision International; Katie Murphy Senior Technical Advisor, ECD, International Rescue Committee; Ayah Younis HCD, Airbel Middle East Impact Lab; Bernadette Daelmans Lead Child Health and Development Unit, World Health Organization; Maria Paul Reinbold, UNICEF; Sheula Manji ECD Specialist, World Health Organization
Scaling the Nurturing Care Framework Using Nurturing Care Groups
This session will feature a model framework that makes it easier to achieve cross-sectoral partnerships and helps break down silos to come together for improved child and adolescent health outcomes and show measurable change.
World Vision International
Nurturing Care for Children Living in Humanitarian Settings
The session will energize participants and enable them to learn about different tools and delivery strategies to care for children in humanitarian settings – ranging from low to high-intensity interventions including digital technologies. They will contribute based on their own experiences and reflect upon gaps in current investments. They will become motivated to be part of the solutions and increase their network of partners to consult and collaborate with.
IRC, WHO, Airbel Middle East Impact Lab
3.) Youth Led Social Accountability and Activism to Improve Health Outcomes
Presenters: Callie Simon Adolescent and Youth Health Advisor, MOMENTUM Country and Global Leadership; Clara Chinoruma Programs Officer, Youth Engage; Chido Kelly Saruh Rusike Youth Professional (Regional Office), SAFAIDS; Ganesh Pandey Technical Manager Health and Nutrition, Save the Children Nepal; Kristen Mallory Sr. Technical Officer Health Systems and Innovation, Children International; Thumbiko Msiska Technical Director of Community Score Card Consulting Group, CARE International Malawi; Tapiwa Olga Munthali Community Score Card Technical Coordinator and Junior Consultant, CARE International Malawi; Emanuel Antonio Taveras Martinez, Youth Leader, Children International
Adolescents and Youth Speak Up!: Youth-led Social Accountability for Family Planning and Reproductive Health This session presents recent findings and compelling examples of youth social accountability to improve FP/RH for adolescents and youth. Youth social accountability, meaning young people advocating for their health and rights and holding health systems accountable, is an essential part of advancing adolescent health in the next decade. In addition to providing clear examples of strategies to advance adolescent health in the next decade, the session will align with the Conference objectives as follows:
How adolescents and youth can be the lead advocates for their rights to health and well-being through social accountability mechanisms, and offer an evidence-based picture of the current state of youth-led social accountability and ways to improve and expand youth-led social accountability.
How partnerships with young people and youth-led organizations are essential to strengthening and sustaining youth social accountability (moving beyond tool-driven short term accountability initiatives), and will demonstrate the importance of collaboration with other sectors and with actors at multiple levels of the health systems to create an enabling environment.
Share findings from a rigorous literature review and landscape analysis that highlights emerging solutions around youth social accountability and key gaps for future research and learning.
MOMENTUM, Youth Engage, SAfAIDS, Save the Children Nepal
Enhancing Youth Engagement and Activism Using Community Score Card (CSC) to Lead Improvements in Adolescent Health and Well being This bilingual (English and Spanish) session will include a multi panel discussion between two NGOs highlighting how the Community Score Card (CSC) is an effective way to improve Adolescent health and Well-being. Children International (CI) has extensive experience in both youth development and health programing; the CSC and the partnership with CSC Consulting group from CARE Malawi helped them link the two program areas in a meaningful way. This partnership helped connect two sectors of programing as well as connecting youth to local advocacy and systems strengthening efforts that have continued to grow. This conversation will include a description of the ongoing work and programing related to youth development and health as well as a case example of the partnership between CI and CARE Malawi, in the Dominican Republic. The discussion will include insights from youth leaders in Malawi and the Dominican Republic on ways to elevate youth voices to improve health and well-being for adolescents.
Children International, CARE International Malawi
4.) Building Bridges between WASH and Global Health: Integrated Strategies to Improve Child Health
Presenters: Aarin Palomares Program Officer, FHI 360; Benjamin Masila Associate Technical Officer, FHI 360/Afya Uzazi Program; Arielle Dolegui Technical Advisor, World Vision; Kaninika Mitra Health Specialist, UNICEF India
The leading causes of child death, diarrhea and pneumonia, can be reduced through access to proper WASH services. Integrated WASH and health programming can maximize program impacts and contribute to better global health outcomes overall. Emphasizing integrated strategies can ensure infants and young children have the comprehensive services they need to grow up strong and healthy. This session directly links to the overall conference theme focused on improving child and adolescent health. In addition, this session will focus on cross-sectoral partnerships and engagement, focusing on breaking down silos and coming together to improve child outcomes by bridging WASH and health efforts. This fits with the conference objective to mobilize and strengthen partnerships and innovation for child and adolescent health in the next decade.
FHI 360, World Vision International, UNICEF India, IMA
5.) Partnership and Practice for Culturally Appropriate Adolescent and Youth Led Evaluation and Norms-shifting Social Behavior Change Projects
Presenters: Susan Igras Senior Technical and Research Instructor, Institute for Reproductive Health, Georgetown University; Ya Cor Ndione National Deputy Director, USAID/Feed the Future Senegal Youth in Agriculture Project; El Hadji Mamadou Ndiaye Lecturer/researcher & M&E Consultant, Gaston Berger University, Saint-Louis Senegal; Mr. Hippolyte Nkoy Coordinator of the Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health Program, Save the Children International in DRC; Eric Mafuta Faculty member at Kinshasa School of Public Health
This session is presented in French langauge only.
This first part of this session contributes to conference objective two, MOBILIZE and strengthen cross-sectoral partnerships and innovation. It will share Senegal’s rich experience in unlocking the potential of adolescents and youth to participate actively and creatively in development and health programmes with a focus on innovative practice in evaluation and action research. It will also show how a focus on adolescent participation and youth empowerment in rural and deprived peri-urban areas stimulates original insights and innovative responses to cross sectoral issues affecting them, including gender inequality, fertility and marriage, employment, migration, and AIDS. The case study presented is the Feed the Future Youth in Agriculture project which is training and supporting young leaders in Participatory Action Research (PAR) and its use to evaluate and conduct research on Positive Youth Development and related issues. As a result, a process of co-designing and co-leading a culturally appropriate, youth participatory evaluation approach has been underway for the past year. This represents a coming together of culturally responsive and youth participatory methodologies which has yielded a decolonizing methodology, rooted not in Western or Euro-centric concepts and philosophies, but in Senegalese philosophies and traditions. The session will discuss how these methodologies, with their multicultural validity and youth participatory ethic, can contribute to more valid, ethical, credible, and defensible evaluation of adolescent and youth focused programmes. Before Q&A, the discussant will place this case in the wider Senegalese context, highlighting lessons from impressive innovations arising from multi-actor partnerships focused on adolescent participation, mainly in relation to health and harmful practices such as child marriage.
Georgetown University, USAID / Feed the Future Senegal Youth in Agriculture Project, Gaston Berger University, Saint-Louis, Senegal
Who Drives Norms Related to Adolescent Health; How can they be Integrated into Community Health Programs? Current Insights and Emerging Applications
In part two, the session addresses two conference objectives : STRENGHTEN commitment and technical assistance for child and adolescent health and empower young people to advocate for their rights to health and well-being and SHARE evidence-based research, disaggregated data, and emerging solutions to ensure improved health outcomes for children and adolescents This session focuses on the technical area of social and behavior change and adolescent health, social systems and normative influence, and new types of partnerships with community-level reference groups who are sometimes hard-to-reach because they don’t frequent schools, clubs, or health centers. When adolescent-focused SBC operates in ways to alter the normative space, social systems change. When working with atypical but influential reference groups that uphold norms, new types of partnerships may be required. To unlock adolescent potential means focusing across the social ecology in which adolescents live. As the session objectives reflect, conference participants will be engaged in reflection and discussion to unpack the ways in which programming can be designed for normative change. This session challenges us to think more systemically about approaches to engage with the normative space.
Georgetown University, Save the Children International in DRC
6.) Delivering comprehensive social services during COVID-19: Lessons from the Colombian Family Welfare Institute Mi Familia Program
Presenters: Juan Barco HRH2030 Colombia Project Director, Chemonics; Kelley Bunkers Senior Associate, Maestral International; Juan Angulo Technical Director of the ICBF Families and Communities Directorate, ICBF (Instituto Colombiano de Bienestar Familiar), Colombian Family Welfare Institute
This session will present the design and implementation of an innovative family support service focused on serving families with children and adolescents already in the protection system. This approach is different as it prioritizes secondary prevention care for population groups at high risk that are immersed in complex situations of violence and poverty. This requires greater internal coordination for ICBF between their Protection and Families and Communities Directorates. It also involves increased referrals to social and health services. Mi Familia, delivered virtually, has proven to be a useful mechanism for the participating families. The resources of Mi Familia and the preparation of the technical team have helped with the implementation of the virtual protocols. With room for improvements, the virtual implementation of Mi Familia has still become a benchmark within ICBF and other care services to follow in its footsteps and be able to remotely support families and look for mechanisms, virtual and/or hybrids (in-person and virtual) to bring services to the most remote places in Colombia. Throughout the session, we seek to demonstrate how this project lead Humanitarian Development Nexus to improve the well-being of children and adolescents in fragile settings through intersectoral collaboration. Participants will be able to learn about the public policy design process and the lessons learned, the redesign and the solutions proposed to adapt the new in-person family support service to a remote service. Similarly, the results of the monitoring scheme designed to evaluate the implementation of the service will be presented, which will allow for improvements in the implementation of Mi Familia in 2021 but can also help others understand what has worked in this context and what Colombia is doing to reduce rates of violence against children and adolescents.
7.) Breaking Down Barriers on SRHR, LGBTQ+ and Inclusivity in Health Decision Making: Youth Speaking
Presenters: Pablo Mhanna-Sandoval, Plan Canada; Adrea Gamez, Salvadoran Netowk of HUman Rights Defenders; Amalia Darien Leiva, Human Rights Advocate; Miss Passita head of Programs and Training Projects, Synergie Trans Benin; Melody ElVincio Founder, Sunergie Trans Benin; Florentine Fade Legal Studies Student, Benin; Yedidia Balarou Apprentice Seamstress; Ines Bakpe Benin; Mariama Diallo Student, Senegal; Oulimata Niang Student, Senegal
Plan International Canada will host an interactive session in French and Spanish with West African and Salvadorian adolescents and youth as they lead us through their perspectives on unlocking their potential in the coming decade. In addition to video, this session will bring together 3-4 young West African and Salvadorian voices to discuss views such as the barriers they face, particularly related to SRHR, LGBTIQ+ inclusivity, health decision making, and solutions or actions they have participated in. To conclude, they will respond to specific questions from participants and leave us inspired for the remainder of the conference.
Marketplace
10:15 AM – 11:15 AM
Room 1: COVID-19 and Risk Communication
Integration of COVID-19 response in an ongoing Maternal and Child Health and Nutrition Program in Bangladesh, Kenya, Myanmar and Tanzania: Successes, Lessons Learned and Challenges Our presentation will include output data on COVID-19 risk communication, health systems strengthening and social protection efforts in Bangladesh, Kenya, Myanmar and Tanzania, lesson learned, and challenges encountered. We will use PowerPoint presentation with high resolution photos from the actual work in the field. We also will run a 3 minutes video from our COVID-19 integration work. We will give chance to audiences to ask questions at the end. World Vision Canada
Community Action Groups (CAGs): An Instrument of Community Engagement for Risk Communication and Addressing Stigma Due to COVID-19 Background: The COVID-19 pandemic has created a devastating impact on health systems and on communities. Stemming from ignorance and misinformation has led to the stigmatization of individuals and families, reflected by social boycotting, loss of livelihood, inability to access essential services, resulting in people not accessing testing, treatment and quarantine facility. Community Action Groups (CAGs) CORE Group Polio Project has created a network of community influencers who support health workers in immunization. These local influencers voluntarily assist vaccination teams in mobilizing families for vaccination. This network was re-purposed as Community Action Groups (CAGs) to create an enabling environment for the health workers and also for the affected families. The CAG is a community-focused intervention to combat fear and stigma related to COVID-19 and other issues like vaccine hesitancy. The group includes village heads and leaders, health workers, school teachers, religious leaders, ration dealers, shop keepers, local quacks/doctors, etc. It not only informs and educates the community about COVID-19 and other health issues but most importantly, provides support through tangible action. CAGs identify families that need support, and supports in following:
Promote health-seeking behaviour for the prevention of COVID.
Prevent and address issues related to stigma
Help the families to explore possible solutions.
Support health care workers to deliver health care services including immunization and health surveys.
This is innovation as volunteer efforts of community are institutionalized as ‘CAGs’ with definite operational guidelines and objectives. The CAGs helped community members to demystify COVID-19 and address their concerns. Core Group Polio Project India
Building Effective Behavior Change Skills in WASH and Agriculture to Support Child Health Developing effective communication, facilitation and negotiation skills among program staff to undertake Social and Behavior Change (SBC) activities is critical to support gains in child and adolescent health. A recent review of Mid-Term Evaluations of USAID Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance (BHA)-funded Development Food Security Activities identified that the quality of SBC interventions and of training sessions were low. Yet, effective SBC is critical to support improved food security and nutrition to improve child, adolescent and adult health. PRO-WASH and SCALE, USAID/BHA-funded capacity strengthening awards, adapted the Make Me a Change Agent training manual for agriculture, WASH and livelihoods staff. This manual was originally developed in 2015 by TOPS and the Core Group SBC Working Group and is focused on communication, facilitation and negotiation skills, essential for field staff and increasingly critical in light of community engagement activities to ensure sustained WASH practices during COVID-19. The adapted training was pilot tested in four countries and revised based on participant feedback. Sector specific examples and role plays were added, along with additional lessons on household decision making, preparing to train others and on social and behavior change. During our presentation, we will provide an overview of the adapted MMCA guide, how these lessons can help staff and volunteers develop fundamental skills to support parents to practice key behaviors to improve child health. In addition, we will also share key three- and six-month follow-up data collected from participants across four countries as well as how findings were used to revise and enhance training materials, leverage local expertise, and adapt subsequent trainings and follow-up support. Other practitioners attending the GHPC may be interested in downloading the training manual for their own work.
Save the Children, Mercy Corps, Hellen Keller International
Room 2: Adolescent Health
At last, the secret to having an Adolescent Centered Environment is Revealed! JSI recently begun working with the Adolescent Health Initiative (AHI) out of Michigan Medicine who developed an innovative, youth-friendly strategies for training multidisciplinary health center teams and improving adolescent health outcomes through a unique 18-month quality improvement process known as the Adolescent-Centered Environment Assessment Process (ACE-AP). The ACE-AP is a facilitated, comprehensive self-assessment tool and improvement process that includes customized resources, recommendations, technical assistance, and implementation plans using Plan, Do, Study, Act (PDSA) improvement cycles. The ACE-AP utilizes an 86-indicator tool based on best practices and national guidelines. It measures the health center environment, policies, and practices in 12 key areas of adolescent-centered care. This model has been used in health centers, school-based health centers, and family planning clinics across the United States to improve their environment, policies, and practices to achieve statistically significant increases in provider and staff knowledge and attitudes around minor consent and confidentiality laws, health center climate related to serving adolescents and young adults, and adolescent patient satisfaction. More recently, AHI has expanded their capacity by providing ACE-AP coach training to interdisciplinary professionals working in organizations outside of AHI to become certified ACE-AP coaches, focusing on the Midwest Region. Shannon Rauh, Senior Consultant with JSI, serves as a Coach and works alongside AHI to build the capacity in pediatric practices in rural and underserved communities in HHS Region V to provide youth-friendly health care services for adolescents through virtual engagement in ACE-AP. The project goal is to equip each HHS Region V state with the ability to grow the capacity of youth-serving primary care centers beyond the project period by training coaches in virtual facilitation and dissemination of the ACE-AP. Each state will continue to disseminate the low-cost model throughout high-need communities and increase the number of youth who have access to needed services. JSI, Adolescent Health Initiative,
A Developmental Science Approach to Programming with Very Young Adolescents The onset of puberty initiates a period of social, emotional, physical, and cognitive development associated with important changes in learning. This transitional period from childhood into adulthood presents a unique window of opportunity for very young adolescents (VYAs) – defined by WHO as adolescents 10-14 years old. Scaffolding this transition comes with new challenges and opportunities on how to facilitate the most positive developmental trajectories that best balance protecting young people from harm, while simultaneously promoting learning and autonomy. Insights have emerged from the study of the biological, cognitive and behavioural changes that occur during adolescence, or the developmental science of adolescence. A deeper understanding of developmental science provides a foundation for the design and implementation of interventions that better align with the learning and developmental needs of VYAs. Developmental science offers a novel platform to transform thinking about the design and delivery of VYAs interventions aiming to improve adolescent health and well-being. Its insights enable implementers and policy makers to explore how existing programs and interventions can be tweaked or adapted to harness the opportunity presented during this transition. Through this session, participants will be introduced to a guide that demonstrates how to integrate developmental science into the design and implementation of VYA programs. The guide provides a basic understanding of developmental science and the key learning and developmental needs of VYAs. It provides key concepts that should be considered during design and implementation of programs with practical examples. University of California, Berkely, Save the Children
Responding to the Sexual and Reproductive Health Needs of Married Adolescent Girls in Niger and Bangladesh: Lessons and Tools from the IMAGINE Project Despite the fact that 90% of adolescent pregnancies in the Global South are to married girls, the complications from which are a leading cause of death for these girls, sexual and reproductive health and other development initiatives often fail to reach this key population. As a result, this marginalized, population lacks the support and services they need to exercise their right to healthy lives and expansive futures. As the world experiences the largest generation of youth in human history, the magnitude of this challenge continues to grow and makes critical the development and testing of effective, tailored strategies that facilitate access to and utilization of rights-based, and adolescent friendly sexual and reproductive health services among this population. This session will present the work of the IMAGINE project, an initiative funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and implemented by CARE in partnership MJSKS, CADEL, the OASIS Initiative, Robi Telecom, and Coders’ Trust among others. IMAGINE works in Rangpur, Bangladesh and Zinder, Niger to design and test a holistic intervention package to facilitate the healthy timing of first birth among married adolescents and enable their pursuit of alternative economic futures. We will begin by sharing the results of a formative research process that employed in-depth interviews with adolescent girls, health workers, husbands, and mothers-in-laws to identify the barriers and facilitators to healthy timing of first pregnancy. We will then present the lessons learned through a human-centered design process which included prototyping of key intervention components. Finally, we showcase the details of each intervention component, how they were tailored and adapted to respond to the unique needs in each context, and make available a suite of tools and curriculum that can be used and adapted by other practitioners looking to tackling these challenges in other settings and among similar populations.
CARE USA
Room 3: Partnerships and Engagement
Presenters: Jitendra Awale Deputy Director, CORE Group Polio Project India; Dr. Roma Solomon Director, CORE Group Polio Project India; Mustapha Kallon Sierra Leone Country Health Coordinator, GOAL; Marie Hallissey Global Health Advisor, GOAL; Neena Khadka Newborn Focal Point, MOMENTUM Country and Global Leadership, MOMENTUM Country and Global Leadership/Save the Children US
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Room 4: Digital Innovations
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Presenters: Sarah Shannon Executive Director, Hesperian Health Guides; Johanna Kougbeadjo Executive Assistant, Hesperina Health Guides; Stephen Meyer Director of Strategic Partnerships, Viamo; Rahul Joseph Program Manager, Surgo Ventures; Kavita Ayyagari Director, Marketing & Partnerships, Howard Delafield International; Jeanette Cachan Knowledge Management & Monitoring, Howard Delafield International
Room 5: Humanitarian Development Nexus/Fragility & Conflict
Presenters: Sona Sharma Social and behavior Change Advisor, Action Against Hunger – USA; Komakech Bony Robert WASH Officer, Action Against Hunger; Amake Oreva Reproductive Health Doctor, International Rescue Committee Nigeria; Keziah Patrick Reproductive Health Manager, International Rescue Committee Nigeria; Temitope Michael Senior RH Manager, International Rescue Committee Nigeria; Ibrahim Balami Senior RH Officer, International Rescue Committee Nigeria
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Closing Plenary
11:15 AM – 12:15 PM
Maintaining Investment in Child and Adolescent Health
Presenters: Monique Vledder Head of Secretariat, Global Financing Facility; Diene KeitaDeputy Executive Director, UNFPA; Helga Fogstad Executive Director, PMNCH, Lisa Hilmi Executive Director, CORE Group; Dyness KasungamiProject Director, Global Child Health Task Force; Mercy Juma Africa Correspondent, BBC; Oyeyemi Pitan Nigeria Youth Focal Point, GFF CSO WG; Anne Sophie Lyskjaer Noer Danish Youth Delegate for Equality and SRHR (2021-2022); Ambassador Marianne Kress Director of Migration, Stabilisation and Fragility, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Government of Denmark
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