As a dedicated staff member of the Newborn Initiative, the Advocacy and Comms Specialist will work closely with the IAWG Senior Advisor for Maternal and Newborn Health (IRC Senior Coordinator, IAWG Newborn Initiative) to advance key global- and national-level advocacy and communications agendas for MNH. Through coordination with key global, national, and local partners - particularly the IAWG MNH sub-working group and the Every Newborn Action Plan’s newborn health in emergencies working group - this position will support advocacy and communications efforts aimed at elevating the Roadmap within global networks and events, growing multi-sectoral commitments to the objectives with the Roadmap, and advancing national agendas that will institutionalize progress made for MNH. The Specialist will also lead the development and implementation of communications and knowledge management strategies aimed at coordinating, documenting, and reporting progress made by the global community in advancing the Roadmap.
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This role will be a key member of the Gender Equality Unit and will play a critical function to lead gender integration in programming strategy, standards, and guidance development. The role will engage with other Technical Excellence staff, the Strategy Unit, and country program teams to support new feminist and transformational programming frameworks, tools, and approaches.
The Senior Gender Advisor will be part of the PRH Gender Team situated within the Policy, Evaluation, and Communication Division. The Senior Gender Advisor will provide technical leadership and serve as a point person for gender-related issues across all 4 Divisions and the Front Office in PRH. S/he will work with other PRH gender advisors and other PRH staff to support the integration of PRH’s gender priorities (i.e., male engagement, reproductive empowerment, and mitigation of gender-based violence,) across FP/RH programming areas (e.g., research, data collection and analysis, policy and advocacy, service delivery, social and behavior change communication, commodity security and logistics, monitoring and evaluation). S/he will also help advance efforts to mitigate gender-based violence within fragile contexts and integrate gender within health financing and economic empowerment in FP/RH programming.
The Senior Reproductive Health (RH) Officer is a member of the multidisciplinary public health team and will ensure that UNHCR's reproductive health and HIV programs meet minimum UNHCR and global health standards in order to minimize preventable morbidity and mortality among populations of concern (POC) and towards the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
HealthRight International’s field offices in Ukraine provide essential access to sexual and reproductive health (SRH) services for marginalized Ukrainians, including crisis-affected people, survivors of gender-based and domestic violence, people with HIV, and adolescents. “Sexual and reproductive health services are integrated into almost all of our programs aiming at improving the quality of life of women and girls,” said Halyna Skipalska, HealthRight Country Director for Ukraine and the Executive Director of the Ukrainian Foundation for Public Health. The organization particularly focuses on gender-based violence (GBV) prevention and response and currently operates mobile clinics, daycare centers, and shelters for survivors of GBV throughout the country.
In the two years since the Misuhuko Medical Center in Burundi opened, they have seen an average of one thousand patients each month, including maternal care and HIV screening. The center faced a significant challenge, having to transfer pregnant people in need of a cesarian section to a neighboring facility. With the support of a project started by the Musama Friends Church and with the engagement of the local community, a clinic is being built. This clinic will be fully functional in providing a cesarian section, reducing unnecessary travel by laboring patients. The local community who the clinic serves raised funding to support the facility's building, but the medical staff are still fundraising for additional assets to make the service fully operational.
