Women Deliver Publications
Focus on 5
Women Deliver "Focus on 5: Women's Health and the MDGs"
These briefing cards outline why policymakers should prioritize saving mothers’ lives and key investments they should make in order to achieve MDG 5.
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Pocket Card: Fast Facts
Women Deliver 2010 Pocket Card
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For policy makers, members of the media, and general audiences, the Women Deliver Pocket Card illustrates how women deliver as mothers, individuals, family members, and as citizens.
Why It's the Right Time: Moving on Reproductive Health Goals by Focusing on Adolescent Girls
By Miriam Temin, Ruth Levine, and Nandini Oomman
In this paper, we present compelling arguments for doing more to protect and promote women’s and girls’ sexual and reproductive health, and make the case for why adolescent girls require special attention in order to accelerate progress on international health goals.
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Targeting poverty and gender inequality to improve maternal health
By Silvia Paruzzolo, Rekha Mehra, Aslihan Kes, Charles Ashbaugh
This paper examines the ways in which poverty and gender inequality pose significant barriers to maternal health care access and utilization, and thereby impact maternal mortality. It also presents key findings from an analysis of the effects of different strategies designed to increase utilization of maternal health care services. A key part of the analysis looks at which outcomes were achieved and whether the benefits reached the poorest and most disempowered women.
Maputo Plan of Action: A vehicle for achieving the MDGs
in Africa
Briefing Card on Maputo Plan of Action
The African Union adopted the Maputo Plan of Action in 2006 to achieve the Millennium Development Goals and move sexual and reproductive health higher on Africa's political agenda. Over the past three years African nations have taken major steps forward in developing country-level plans for achieving the targets of the Maputo Plan. The challenge is now implementation. This briefing card, produced by an ad hoc group of international organizations who make up the Support Group for the Maputo Plan of Action, outlines progress to date and the steps to achievement.
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2007 Women Deliver Conference Materials:
2007 Pocket Card: Fast Facts
2007 Women Deliver Pocket Card
For policy makers, members of the media, and general audiences, the Women Deliver Pocket Card illustrates how women deliver as mothers, individuals, family members, and as citizens.
2007 Background Report
Women Deliver for Development: Background Paper for the Women Deliver Conference
Full Report (English only)
This paper argues that maternal health is central to the multiple aspects of many women's lives, and is critically important for development goals more broadly. The evidence reviewed indicates that a woman's ability to survive pregnancy and childbirth is closely related to how effectively societies invest in and realize the potential of women–one half of their populations–not only as mothers, but as critical contributors to sustaining families and transforming nations.
2007 Executive Summary
A summary version of the Women Deliver Background Paper.
2007 The Lancet Women Deliver Issue
The Lancet Special Women Deliver Issue: Commentary: Delivering for Women by Ann Starrs, President, FCI
This commentary from The Lancet Special Women Deliver Issue outlines 20 years of efforts to address the most striking inequity in public health: half a million women, 99% of them in the developing world, were dying every year in pregnancy and childbirth. For the full issue of The Lancet, click here.
2007 Final Statements from the Women Deliver Conference
2007 Closing Statement
2007 Statement from the Minister's Forum
2007 Women Deliver Conference Overview
Full document (English only)
2007 Women Deliver What's Next Guide
2007 Women Deliver CD-ROM
Women Deliver CD-ROM Resource Pack provides advocates with critical resources to sustain and advance commitments to MDG5 – these materials are also online (see left). To request a free copy of the CD-ROM in English, French, or Spanish, click here.
The CD-ROM contains:
Ministers' Forum Statement
Women Deliver Closing Statement
Women Deliver Pocket Card
Women Deliver Background Paper {English only}
Women Deliver Executive Summary
Women Deliver Conference Overview {English only}
Women Deliver Overview PowerPoint presentation
Women Deliver for Development PowerPoint presentation
Women Deliver What's Next guide
2007 Women Deliver for Development Presentation
Previews 20 years of evidence on maternal health and development. Originally presented by Geeta Rao Gupta, President of ICRW, as the keynote presentation at the 2007 Women Deliver conference.
