They came from all corners, men and women, to re-focus the world’s attention on investing in women’s health and rights as a key to a more sustainable world for all. Over 4,000 academics, advocates, global health practitioners, policymakers, and storytellers, descended on Kuala Lumpur (KL), Malaysia, May 28-30, to shine a collective spotlight on the importance of building a better world for women and girls.

Hailed by the organizers as “the…

I wrote this article in the build up to the Busan conference but I thought I would share it.

Richard Ssewakiryanga

November 2011

This year, 2011 will see the end of the Paris Declaration, which for the last 5 years has set out the key principles that should guide aid effectiveness if the world is to reach the millennium development goals.  Ministers of development, Finance Ministers, Heads of bilateral and multilateral organizations will…

The meeting to establish the Regional Community of Practice on Results of the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa Africa (COMESA CoP) was held from May 14-17, 2013, in Lusaka, Zambia, bringing together more that one hundred and fifty participants from Eastern and Southern African countries. A…

KIGARAMA, BURUNDI — In three short years, nurse Benigne Nkunzimana helped engineer a turnaround of the health center here. Nestled in the mountainous, rural Ngozi province, the clinic used to close every day at 3:30 p.m., even when patients were still waiting to be served, because nurses weren’t allowed to work overtime. It constantly had a shortage of medications, including antibiotics, because it took at least a month to receive district authorization for each purchase. Nurses were paid so…