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The Global Leaders Council For Reproductive Health Resolve Award

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The Resolve Award celebrates progress made by governments toward delivering on the promise of universal access to reproductive health. This highly competitive, non-monetary award is designed to honour innovative and scalable approaches in accelerating progress toward universal access to reproductive health. 

Innovations and awards will be considered in:

  • Financing: Countries will be recognised for identifying or developing new ways to fund reproductive health services. Examples could include: resource pooling; voucher systems; collective health insurance; or leveraging the private sector.
  • Policy Development: Countries will be recognised for adapting, developing, or improving the design and implementation of policies that remove barriers or facilitate progress toward universal access. Examples could include: adapting or developing a national reproductive health and/or adolescent reproductive health plan; public policy influencing private sector involvement; and policies focused on reaching marginalized and/or vulnerable groups.
  • Expansion of service delivery:  Countries will be recognised for expanding access to reproductive health services and information. Examples could include: workforce expansion; integrated services; community-based distribution of contraceptives; task shifting; youth-friendly pharmacies and services; and introducing new service delivery protocols, training curricula, and educational approaches.
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Applications will be selected by the Global Leaders Council members and secretariat, in partnership with experts in the reproductive health field. Up to three awards total will be made in any combination of the three categories: financing, policy development, and expansion of service delivery. Representatives from the winning countries will be invited to speak on their country’s innovation at the annual Geneva Policy Dialogue Series for Reproductive Health event held at the time of the World Health Assembly. The award will be presented by members of the Global Leaders Council.

 

To learn more about the award and to apply, click here.

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The Aspen Institute website, October 25 2013.