Sexual and Reproductive Health with Isaac Eranga

January 19th, 2015 By: Emily Mello, Women Deliver When you invest in girls and women, everybody wins. Here at Women Deliver, we can’t say that enough. Economically empowered women not only r aise t he labor productivity of their countries, but also spend more of their earned income on their families . Hindustan UniLever Limited ( HUL ), India’s largest Fast Moving Consumer Goods Company, is applying this principle through Project Shakti . This entrepreneurial program offers rural women microgrants to become distributors of the company’s health and hygiene products. Project Shakti follows a ‘Doing Well by Doing Good’ model , aiming to meet both business and societal needs through the same initiative. The project selects and trains rural women from poor economic backgrounds to be Shakti Entrepreneurs (SEs). In addition to basic business management training, SEs receive tools to boost sales, including bicycles and mobile ...

December 9th, 2014 Originally posted by Family Planning 2020 Five new commitments to Family Planning 2020 will improve health and drive economic development in the world’s poorest countries. Family Planning 2020 also announces Rights and Empowerment Principles for Family Planning. Washington, DC – December 9, 2014: Family Planning 2020 (FP2020), the global partnership dedicated to improving access to family planning information, services and supplies, today announced three additional African nations – Burundi, Cameroon and Togo – made commitments that will enable more women to decide, freely and for themselves, whether and when to have children. The new additions increased the total number of focus countries making pledges to FP2020 to 32. Further commitments to support the achievement of FP2020’s goal through funding and programming were made by The Brush Foundation and EngenderHealth. FP2020 worked with a range...