澳门历史开奖记录

On International Women鈥檚 Day, the听听Report launch 澳门历史开奖记录鈥檚 Institute of Child Health saw the initiative鈥檚 co-directors explore the report鈥檚 findings alongside representatives from the global organisations featured.

The first report of its kind, Global Health 50/50 is housed by听听and inspects the policies and practices of 140 top health organisations.听

The event marked the culmination of what the project鈥檚 co-director Dr Kent Buse, Chief of Strategic Policy Directions at UNAIDS, described as 鈥渟ix months of hard work and analysis.鈥�

Introducing the event, Dame Nicola Brewer, UCL鈥檚 Vice-Provost International and Gender Equality Champion, brought up the theme for International Women鈥檚 Day 2018: 鈥淧ress for progress."

She said: 鈥淭his report is a great way to do just that, by taking an in-depth look at the extent to which 140 global health organisations commit and take action to promote gender equality, both through their programmes and operations and within the workplace.鈥�

An accountability mechanism

Nicola also quoted former New Zealand Prime Minister and adviser to the GH5050 initiative Helen Clark, sharing how she believes the report offers 鈥渁n accountability mechanism that has been sorely lacking.鈥�

Kent shared how in 2012, he and co-director Sarah Hawkes, Professor of Global Public Health 澳门历史开奖记录, first crystallised their thinking about gender and health in a paper for The Lancet.

鈥淲e looked at the evidence on the burden of disease going back to the 80s and we looked at the policies of around a dozen global health organisations,鈥� he said.

鈥淭he global burden of disease was larger in men and the risk factors were also higher across men [鈥�] and the notion of gender was either missing or misunderstood.鈥�

Verifying the data

At the time, he said, it appeared that 鈥渢he global health community wasn鈥檛 ready or willing to talk about gender in any meaningful way.鈥�

But Kent revealed that in the process of verifying the report鈥檚 data over the past month, 鈥渢hree organisations have already come to us for advice.鈥�

Sarah explained how the team of researchers initially came up with seven domains to try and assess how organisations were addressing gender.

鈥淭he first challenge,鈥� she said, was to assess, 鈥溾�榃ell, what鈥檚 a global health organisation?鈥� We had a couple of criteria: firstly, each organisation had to be present in at least three countries.鈥�

She explained that while it might be surprising to see multi-nationals such as Coca-Cola and Heineken in the report, these companies have publicly stated their intention to influence the UN鈥檚 Sustainable Development Goal in health.

Touching on the team鈥檚 research around NGOs in particular, Sarah explained how there is a 鈥渃omplete mismatch between what the burden of disease is and what people are working on.鈥�

This observation has led to the report鈥檚 recommendation that organisations should move beyond the tendency to conflate gender with women so as to appreciate the 鈥済ender-related determinants of everyone鈥檚 health.鈥�

鈥淭oo much lip service鈥� to equality

Moderator and member of the 50/50 advisory panel Dr Jocalyn Clark, Executive Editor of The Lancet, credited the report with revealing that 鈥渁 lot of the rhetoric around gender equality isn鈥檛 translating into action and accountability.鈥�

She shared how The Lancet is taking its own steps to confront the problem. She said: 鈥淲e can鈥檛 take organisations or individuals at their word on equality. There鈥檚 too much lip service - we have to investigate it with deeper analysis.鈥�

Company representatives听

Panel member Jeremy Farrar, Director of The Wellcome Trust, delivered his own pledge of support to the initiative, later describing it on Twitter as 鈥淧erhaps the most important thing I will do in my career.鈥�

Representatives from some of the 140 companies featured in the report were also keen to stress their own efforts to combat the issues exposed.

鈥淲e did relatively well in the report, but that doesn鈥檛 mean by any means that we don鈥檛 have a lot of work to do,鈥� said Save the Children UK鈥檚 Suzanne Taunton.

鈥淲e have a gender equity KPI and a gender equity working group, so we鈥檙e making movements in the right direction,鈥� she added.

New partnerships

Johnny Baxter, Head of Human Development at DFID, announced DFID鈥檚 new gender strategy at the event. He said: 鈥淧art of the value of this report is to make us all accountable and I hope that we also end up being accountable for the things we said were going to be.鈥�

The Q&A session that followed suggested this was already the case; an audience member called on Johnny to acknowledge the progress that still needs to be made at organisations including his in terms of recognising and sufficiently providing for non-binary people.

Closing the evening, Kent stressed that while the report is a significant milestone, work is just beginning: 鈥淲hat we want to do is change the lives of people on the ground in countries. This is human resource intensive, so we鈥檒l be looking for new partnerships.鈥�

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