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Message from the President of the AfDB on the Occasion of International Women’s Day

TUNIS, Tunisia, March 7, 2013/ -- Message from the President of the AfDB on the Occasion of International Women’s Day:

International Women’s Day is a day of celebration and a day of challenge, often rolled into one. In realising how far we have come towards ensuring genuine equality of opportunity for women as for men, it becomes clear how far we still have to go.

For every iconic female leader – a President Johnson-Sirleaf in Liberia, for example – there are a thousand female voices in Africa which are unheard. In individual African countries, and across the continent at large, we see a joust between success and shortcoming. Africa may lead the world in the proportion of women who sit in some if its parliaments, but it lags badly behind the rest of the world in others. Statistics report countries in which three percent of women have experienced sexual violence – a figure which is three percent too high – and those in which no less than a thirty-three percent have been confronted and affronted with such crime.

The mathematics do not make sense, when we see that women are still among Africa’s most vulnerable people. Fully two-thirds of the continent’s children out of primary school, its citizens living below the poverty line, its HIV sufferers, its disenfranchised people, are women. It is a stark fact that half of Africa’s people bear considerably more than half of its problems.

Africa’s current and unprecedented economic growth is strong – but it is flawed if it is not shared, and if it is not environmentally sustainable. Real growth has to be for women as much as for men, for younger people as for older, for rural communities as much as urban. And we know that economic growth alone does not suffice to create gender equality: it requires political and practical will to drive the gender agenda forward.

The key to that task is law: first establishing the law, and then implementing it.

On the surface at least, that may be happening. Most African countries have ratified the Convention for the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women, CEDAW, the various International Labour Organization conventions on women’s working rights, and the Maputo Protocol of 2005 which was Africa’s own stated vision of equality for its women.

But legal exceptions are widespread in national constitutions, and in the statutes governing areas like marital property, inheritance, land, and labour. Civil law sometimes has to give way to customary law, especially in rural areas. Many of the legal provisions which discriminate against women apply to them not simply as women, but as married women. In many countries, marriage changes the legal status and rights of women, often conferring legal rights and responsibilities on husbands, and removing them from wives. Some of Africa’s Family Codes limit women’s capacity to sign contracts or seek employment without the consent of their husbands. Everything has its consequences: this limits female farmers’ ability to hold secure tenure rights to land, thereby diminishing their access to credit and other goods, which in turn leads to inefficient land use and lower yields and, as research revealed last year, falls in productivity by up to 40%.

The last decade gives just as much evidence of a continent grappling with a serious issue. The Gambia’s Women’s Act of 2010 brought in comprehensive legislation to bring about gender equality. It promises the continued education of young girls who are victims of early marriage and teenage pregnancy, for instance, and prohibits their expulsion from school. Kenya’s 2010 Constitution, ‘recognising the aspirations of all for a government based on the essential values of human rights, equality, freedom, democracy, social justice and the rule of law’, is suffused with gains for women, for instance in their being given equal right to inheritance and unbiased access to land. Article 19 of the Moroccan constitution makes men and women equal citizens under the law, with the same social, economic, political, environmental and civil rights. Its title should be a rallying cry for us all: ‘Honour for women’.

Women’s equality and opportunity before the law is the shared responsibility of governments and peoples alike. National and international development organisations, too, must play their role. The African Development Bank makes loans and grants of tens of millions of dollars each year, to promote women’s economic empowerment. Where laws establish gender equality – in the letter, in the spirit and in the practice – we should give our utmost support.

Distributed by the African Press Organization on behalf of the African Development Bank.

Media contact: comu@afdb.org

SOURCE

African Development Bank (AfDB)

What kills one AFRICAN woman every minute of every single day? / The Most Important “Life” Survey You Will Read

PRESS RELEASE

ACCRA, Ghana, February 18, 2013/ -- The Most Important “Life” Survey You Will Read

Every survey starts with a simple question.

What kills one AFRICAN woman every minute of every single day?

A: AIDS
B: CANCER

NEITHER

THE ANSWER IS?

C: PREGNANCY AND CHILDBIRTH

Somewhere in AFRICA one woman dies every minute of every day from causes related to pregnancy and birth.

The hardest pill to swallow for even the most successful African nations is this: giving life to the continent’s next generation is one of the biggest killers’ of Africa’s women.

More often than not it is preventable: Uncontrolled bleeding, infection, poor medical care and a lack of education still sit at the very heart of this hidden crisis.

Those who survive may still suffer. For every woman who dies during childbirth, it is estimated that another 30 are injured or become sick bringing life to the world. Africa’s poorest are the most vulnerable.

But women themselves are not the only victims. The children left behind are more likely to die simply because they are motherless.

Too many babies also die unnecessarily. In Africa, over a million newborns die each year – that is - nearly four every single minute.

If Africa is to advance, MORE needs to be done. SIGNIFICANTLY more.

Today (18th February 2013), MamaYe (http://www.mamaye.org), a public action campaign to save the lives of mothers and babies will be launched in five countries most affected by the crisis of maternal and newborn mortality: Nigeria, Ghana, Sierra Leone, Malawi and Tanzania. This is the first part of a continent-wide campaign which will use digital and mobile phone technology to engage ordinary Africans in the most important fight of all – the battle to save our mothers and babies.

At its core MamaYe will challenge the status quo – the fatalism of millions of Africans, young and old, who accept the deaths of mothers and babies as “natural” or “God’s will.”

MamaYe is a campaign to both educate and encourage communities to take collective and individual action for pregnant mothers amongst them. It will seek to overcome the ingrained belief that responsibility for maternal and newborn survival rests elsewhere: with ‘the government’ ‘the ministry’ ‘professionals’ ‘the UN’ or foreign donors. For MamaYe the active participation of Africans as a whole is a critical ingredient.

MamaYe believes that technology can educate, motivate and mobilise people to take direct action to respond to the maternal and newborn crisis in Africa.

By 2016, it is projected that there will be one billion mobile phones in Africa. 167,335,676 Internet users. 51,612,460 Facebook subscribers. In Ghana, for example, mobile penetration in the country has reached a record 80% of the country’s population.

MamaYe has been initiated by Evidence for Action which is funded by the UK Department for International Development, and headed up in the five countries by African experts.

Country Director Ghana Professor Richard Adanu, who is also the Dean of the School of Public Health in Accra, said:

“We all have the power and the potential to save the lives of mothers and newborns.

“Men who support their wives to visit ante-natal clinics are helping to save lives. Taxi drivers who volunteer to get women to clinics in time for the birth can do the same. Voluntarily giving blood also saves lives, by helping women who haemorrhage during childbirth.

“Government officials that ensure clinics are well stocked with drugs and other essentials, are nothing less than life-savers. Midwives that respond to a crisis in the middle of the night are maternal survival heroines.

“We can all play our part. Childbirth is not a disease. We have known for decades what it takes to ensure the survival of women and babies in childbirth. But if our mothers are to survive, then the African public must also step up, take responsibility and become more involved and vigilant.

“MamaYe will provide the evidence, information and tools necessary to empower our citizens to demand change.

All it takes to make the change, is YOU. “

Visit http://www.mamaye.org to find out more about making a life-saving change for mothers and babies of Africa. On this website you will find easy to understand evidence, stories of heroes and heroines, commitments made by the Government and different actions you can take for this important cause.

Make your voice heard and demand more, join the MamaYe campaign at:

• http://www.mamaye.org

• http://www.Facebook.com/MamaYeAfrica

• http://www.Twitter.com/MamaYe

Distributed by the African Press Organization on behalf of MamaYe.

Contact: Rachel Haynes (for in-country contacts, see below)

Email: info@evidence4action.net

Contacts

Ghana:

Nii Sarpei, Communicatons: n.sarpei@arhr.org.gh

Malawi:

Mwereti Kanjo, Communications: mweretik@gmail.com


Nigeria:

Morooph Babaranti, Communications: m.babaranti@evidence4action.net

Sierra Leone:

Fatou Wurie, Communications: f.wurie@evidence4action.net

Tanzania:

Chiku Lweno-Aboud, Communications: c.lweno-aboud@evidence4action.net

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NY's Bloomberg Aims to Save Mothers, Children in Tanzania



UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg said on Tuesday he is funding the expansion of a pilot maternal health program in Tanzania that is predicted to help 50,000 mothers and their children during the next three years.

A woman dies every two minutes of pregnancy-related problems with 99 percent of such deaths in poor countries, according to the U.N. Population Fund. Common causes are bleeding after childbirth, high blood pressure, infections and unsafe abortions.

"No one should have to die giving birth," Bloomberg told a news conference at the United Nations with Tanzanian President Jakaya Kikwete. "Too many women die due to complications in childbirth because of inaccessible and inadequate care."

The Bloomberg Philanthropies initiative trains assistant medical officers and midwives in remote areas to perform life-saving procedures including caesarean sections and upgrades isolated health centers.

"If you can build a model that you can show works in remote areas where the doctor to patient ratio is 1 to 50,000 then you can start attracting capital from an awful lot of other foundations and perhaps governments," said Bloomberg, founder of Bloomberg LP who has so far donated more than $2.4 billion to charity.

While U.N. data shows maternal deaths globally halved between 1990 and 2010 to 287,000 annually, many states in sub-Saharan Africa are forecast to fail to reach a U.N. target of reducing maternal deaths between 1990 and 2015 by 75 percent.

Tanzania is not on track to meet the U.N. target and has the eighth highest number of maternal deaths in the world - a woman dies almost every hour. Kikwete said that more money was needed to tackle the problem.

"We need to scale up efforts because still too many mothers and children continue to die," Kikwete told reporters.

The Bloomberg Philanthropies maternal health program began in Tanzania in 2006. Bloomberg has now joined forces with Geneva-based H&B Agerup Foundation to spend $8 million to expand the program over the next three years, taking the total spent since the initiative started to $15.5 million.

Bloomberg's third term as New York City mayor finishes at the end of next year and he has said he will then dedicate himself to philanthropy. He hit No. 10 on Forbes latest ranking of the richest people in the United States with an estimated fortune of $25 billion.

In 2011 Bloomberg Philanthropies spent $330 million and Bloomberg has signed up to the Giving Pledge, a philanthropic campaign by two of the world's richest men - Warren Buffett and Bill Gates - that required him to announce he would give away at least half his wealth during his lifetime or after his death.

(Reporting by Michelle Nichols; editing by Andrew Hay)...

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