The second SPHS webinar, Human Rights and Gender Equality in the Global Health Supply Chains was held on 17 October 2017. It is an opportunity for the SPHS network to hear from thought leaders in the areas of human rights and gender equality in health supply chains, as well as learn about available resources and guidance materials on safeguarding working conditions. This webinar is relevant to all those active in the healthcare supply chain. It is particularly intended for procurement officers, suppliers, manufacturers and policy advisors.
Planetary health: Sustainable procurement in the health sectorUN SPHS
Mirjana Milic, UNDP Associate Coordinator, has delivered a presentation about UNDP's commitment to protect the planet from the negative impacts of the health sector at the "Regional Capacity-building Workshop on Biodiversity and Health for the WHO European Region" on 23-25 October 2017 in Helsinki, Finland.
Plenary presentation: Karen Hill (SRHR in the Pacific: strategic approach)CNS www.citizen-news.org
This is the plenary presentation of Karen Hill, Director, Programmes and Operations Pacific for the International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF), which took place as part of the third session of #APCRSHR10 #Virtual on the theme of "Sexual and reproductive health and rights in the Pacific" | more details are online at www.bit.ly/apcrshr10virtual3 Thanks
Abstract presentation: Olanike Adedeji (Roadmap to Achieving Zero Unmet Need ...CNS www.citizen-news.org
This is the abstract presentation of Olanike Adedeji, which took place as part of the third session of #APCRSHR10 #Virtual on the theme of "Sexual and reproductive health and rights in the Pacific" | more details are online at www.bit.ly/apcrshr10virtual3 Thanks
Presentation by CCAFS/IITA researchers to Tanzania Members of Parliament, Sept. 13, 2017. Offers research findings on gender budgeting, policy analysis, and climate change adaptation.
This is the abstract presentation of An Nguyen, which was made as part of the 11th session 10th Asia Pacific Conference on Reproductive and Sexual Health and Rights (#APCRSHR10 Virtual), on the theme of "Persons with disabilities, and sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) in Asia and the Pacific".
C H A I R
Abia Akram, CEO, National Forum of Women with Disabilities
P L E N A R Y S P E A K E R S
* Setareki S Macanawai, CEO, Pacific Disability Forum | "Transforming access to sexual and reproductive health and gender-based violence services for women and young people with disabilities in the Pacific"
* Tanzila Khan, Founder, Girly things, Creative Alley | "Connecting SRHR to Disability in new age of technology"
A B S T R A C T P R E S E N T A T I O N S
* Dakshitha Wickremarathne | We Hear You - A Sign Language Glossary on Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights for people with hearing disability
* Srei Chanda | Does the issue of sexual health outcome remain unaddressed among adults after a lower limb disability? An answer through exploratory study in India
* Shibu Shrestha | Experiences of young people specifically young people with disabilities in accessing FP services in Nepal
* An Nguyen | Accessing Reproductive Health Care Services For Women With Physical Disabilities In Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
V O I C E F R O M T H E F R O N T L I N E
Phyu Nwe Win, Colorful Girls, Myanmar
For more information on the session, please visit
www.bit.ly/apcrshr10virtual11
Official conference website: www.apcrshr10cambodia.org
Thanks
Planetary health: Sustainable procurement in the health sectorUN SPHS
Mirjana Milic, UNDP Associate Coordinator, has delivered a presentation about UNDP's commitment to protect the planet from the negative impacts of the health sector at the "Regional Capacity-building Workshop on Biodiversity and Health for the WHO European Region" on 23-25 October 2017 in Helsinki, Finland.
Plenary presentation: Karen Hill (SRHR in the Pacific: strategic approach)CNS www.citizen-news.org
This is the plenary presentation of Karen Hill, Director, Programmes and Operations Pacific for the International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF), which took place as part of the third session of #APCRSHR10 #Virtual on the theme of "Sexual and reproductive health and rights in the Pacific" | more details are online at www.bit.ly/apcrshr10virtual3 Thanks
Abstract presentation: Olanike Adedeji (Roadmap to Achieving Zero Unmet Need ...CNS www.citizen-news.org
This is the abstract presentation of Olanike Adedeji, which took place as part of the third session of #APCRSHR10 #Virtual on the theme of "Sexual and reproductive health and rights in the Pacific" | more details are online at www.bit.ly/apcrshr10virtual3 Thanks
Presentation by CCAFS/IITA researchers to Tanzania Members of Parliament, Sept. 13, 2017. Offers research findings on gender budgeting, policy analysis, and climate change adaptation.
This is the abstract presentation of An Nguyen, which was made as part of the 11th session 10th Asia Pacific Conference on Reproductive and Sexual Health and Rights (#APCRSHR10 Virtual), on the theme of "Persons with disabilities, and sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) in Asia and the Pacific".
C H A I R
Abia Akram, CEO, National Forum of Women with Disabilities
P L E N A R Y S P E A K E R S
* Setareki S Macanawai, CEO, Pacific Disability Forum | "Transforming access to sexual and reproductive health and gender-based violence services for women and young people with disabilities in the Pacific"
* Tanzila Khan, Founder, Girly things, Creative Alley | "Connecting SRHR to Disability in new age of technology"
A B S T R A C T P R E S E N T A T I O N S
* Dakshitha Wickremarathne | We Hear You - A Sign Language Glossary on Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights for people with hearing disability
* Srei Chanda | Does the issue of sexual health outcome remain unaddressed among adults after a lower limb disability? An answer through exploratory study in India
* Shibu Shrestha | Experiences of young people specifically young people with disabilities in accessing FP services in Nepal
* An Nguyen | Accessing Reproductive Health Care Services For Women With Physical Disabilities In Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
V O I C E F R O M T H E F R O N T L I N E
Phyu Nwe Win, Colorful Girls, Myanmar
For more information on the session, please visit
www.bit.ly/apcrshr10virtual11
Official conference website: www.apcrshr10cambodia.org
Thanks
Agnes Quisumbing
SPECIAL EVENT
A Decade of the Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index (WEAI): Lessons from Using Empowerment Metrics
Co-Organized by IFPRI, United States Agency for International Development (USAID), and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF)
FEB 16, 2022 - 9:30 TO 11:00AM EST
Physical activity in Africa during the COVID-19 pandemicDr. Ebele Mogo
A presentation at the WHO Africa Virtual Meeting to Promote Physical Activity in the African Region.
Questions covered: How has physical activity changed pre and during COVID-19 in Africa? What disruptions to physical activity were created? What opportunities to promote physical activity emerged? How can some of these promising opportunities be sustained to promote physical activity long-term?
Handouts on Rapid Analysis of Innovation Response to Covid-19 Pandemic in Sou...KTN
Resilience is as much a tool for persisting during a crisis as it is for thriving. Now, more than ever, programme design and intervention strategies for players within the innovation ecosystem must be intended at assisting them build resilience in the immediate to long-term. Implementing the following recommendations would aid such resilience.
- Greater access to flexible and responsive financing support
- Increased digital literacy and access to affordable data
- Greater resilience through targeted policy design
- Identify and facilitate value-driven partnerships
This is the abstract presentation by Nicole Banister (Leveraging sport to improve perceptions of violence and sexual and reproductive health and rights for adolescents: Insights gained from Grassroot Soccer’s play-based approach in Papua New Guinea) which took place as part of the fourth session of #APCRSHR10 #Virtual on the theme of "Young people and sexual and reproductive health and rights in Asia and the Pacific" | more details are online at www.bit.ly/apcrshr10virtual4 Thanks
A presentation by Ebele Mọgọ, DrPH
“Sustainable African Cities: Debating Current Challenges and Exploring Future Pathways”
Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences, Accra, Ghana
Presentation by Wouter Kleijn (ILRI) at the webinar on Engaging African youth in agribusiness in a changing climate.
The webinar took place on 30 August 2017 and was organized by the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS), CGIAR Research Program on Livestock, the Climate Smart Agriculture Youth Network (CSAYN), AgriProFocus, and ICCO Cooperation.
Equity and sustainability in global healthDr. Ebele Mogo
An exchange with future medical doctors via the Student National Medical Association about global health, the need to prioritize Context, Access, Sustainability and Agency in designing solutions to healthcare challenges, and how to connect their frontline work in healthcare systems to work to create wellbeing systems.
Presentation by Divine Ntiokam (CSAYN) at the webinar on Engaging African youth in agribusiness in a changing climate.
The webinar took place on 30 August 2017 and was organized by the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS), CGIAR Research Program on Livestock, the Climate Smart Agriculture Youth Network (CSAYN), AgriProFocus, and ICCO Cooperation.
Using Social Media to Tailor Public Health ResponsesDr. Ebele Mogo
Findings and reflections from a social listening exercise to explore public perceptions on health in the context of the COVID-19 response in Nigeria.
A flash talk presented to the COVID-19 in the Global South group of Cambridge Global Challenges and Cambridge Africa.
In cooperation with the Research and Evaluation Division of BRAC, Copenhagen Consensus Center organized roundtable discussions with an aim to figure out smarter solutions to the most problematic issues facing Bangladesh.
Skills and Gaps: A Capacity Needs Assessment of Peri-urban Dairy Chains aroun...ILRI
Presentation by Jan van der Lee, Abebe Tessama, Mengistu Nigussie and Mekdes Asfaw at the National dairy forum, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 23-24 November 2010.
Empowering women to participate fully in economic life across all sectors and throughout all levels of economic activity is essential to:
■ Build strong economies;
■ Establish more stable and just societies;
■ Achieve internationally- agreed goals for development, sustainability and human rights;
■ Improve quality of life for women, men, families and communities; and
■ Propel businesses’ operations and goals.
Yet, ensuring the inclusion of women’s talents, skills, experience and energies requires intentional actions and deliberate policies. The Women’s Empowerment Principles provide a set of considerations to help the private sector focus on key elements integral to promoting gender equality in the workplace, marketplace and community. Enhancing openness and inclusion throughout corporate policies and operations requires techniques, tools and practices that bring results.
The Women’s Empowerment Principles, forged through an international multi-stakeholder consultative process led by the United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM) and the United Nations Global Compact (UNGC), provide a “gender lens” through which business can survey and analyze current initiatives, benchmarks and reporting practices. Informed by real-life business practices, the Principles help Introduction companies tailor existing policies and practices —or establish needed new ones— to realize women’s empowerment. The Principles also reflect the interests of governments and civil society and will support interactions among stakeholders as achieving gender equality requires the participation of all actors.
As a leader in gender equality, UNIFEM brings three decades of experience to this partnership effort with the UN Global Compact, the world’s largest corporate citizenship initiative with more than 7,000 business participants and other stakeholders involved in more than 135 countries. In an increasingly globalized and interconnected world, utilizing all social and economic assets is crucial for success. Yet, despite progress, women continue to confront discrimination, marginalization and exclusion, even though equality between men and women stands as a universal international precept—a fundamental and inviolable human right.
Nearly all countries have affirmed this value through their recognition of the standards contained in international human rights treaties, which articulate for states a broad range of civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights. Distinctive documents highlight a spectrum of state responsibilities and human rights protections for women, indigenous peoples, children, workers and people with disabilities. Additionally, internationally agreed- on documents such as the Beijing Platform for Action adopted by all 189 countries at the Fourth World Conference on Women in 1995 and the Millennium Declaration adopted by 189 countries in 2000, contribute to the overarching human rights framework.
Women's participation in the labour market is dependent on a number of factors. The policies and the budget has to be gender sensitive to create an enabling environment for the women workers. We need to shift from the gender neutral approach to the gender sensitive approach.by asking the right questions during budget preparation.
Agnes Quisumbing
SPECIAL EVENT
A Decade of the Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index (WEAI): Lessons from Using Empowerment Metrics
Co-Organized by IFPRI, United States Agency for International Development (USAID), and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF)
FEB 16, 2022 - 9:30 TO 11:00AM EST
Physical activity in Africa during the COVID-19 pandemicDr. Ebele Mogo
A presentation at the WHO Africa Virtual Meeting to Promote Physical Activity in the African Region.
Questions covered: How has physical activity changed pre and during COVID-19 in Africa? What disruptions to physical activity were created? What opportunities to promote physical activity emerged? How can some of these promising opportunities be sustained to promote physical activity long-term?
Handouts on Rapid Analysis of Innovation Response to Covid-19 Pandemic in Sou...KTN
Resilience is as much a tool for persisting during a crisis as it is for thriving. Now, more than ever, programme design and intervention strategies for players within the innovation ecosystem must be intended at assisting them build resilience in the immediate to long-term. Implementing the following recommendations would aid such resilience.
- Greater access to flexible and responsive financing support
- Increased digital literacy and access to affordable data
- Greater resilience through targeted policy design
- Identify and facilitate value-driven partnerships
This is the abstract presentation by Nicole Banister (Leveraging sport to improve perceptions of violence and sexual and reproductive health and rights for adolescents: Insights gained from Grassroot Soccer’s play-based approach in Papua New Guinea) which took place as part of the fourth session of #APCRSHR10 #Virtual on the theme of "Young people and sexual and reproductive health and rights in Asia and the Pacific" | more details are online at www.bit.ly/apcrshr10virtual4 Thanks
A presentation by Ebele Mọgọ, DrPH
“Sustainable African Cities: Debating Current Challenges and Exploring Future Pathways”
Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences, Accra, Ghana
Presentation by Wouter Kleijn (ILRI) at the webinar on Engaging African youth in agribusiness in a changing climate.
The webinar took place on 30 August 2017 and was organized by the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS), CGIAR Research Program on Livestock, the Climate Smart Agriculture Youth Network (CSAYN), AgriProFocus, and ICCO Cooperation.
Equity and sustainability in global healthDr. Ebele Mogo
An exchange with future medical doctors via the Student National Medical Association about global health, the need to prioritize Context, Access, Sustainability and Agency in designing solutions to healthcare challenges, and how to connect their frontline work in healthcare systems to work to create wellbeing systems.
Presentation by Divine Ntiokam (CSAYN) at the webinar on Engaging African youth in agribusiness in a changing climate.
The webinar took place on 30 August 2017 and was organized by the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS), CGIAR Research Program on Livestock, the Climate Smart Agriculture Youth Network (CSAYN), AgriProFocus, and ICCO Cooperation.
Using Social Media to Tailor Public Health ResponsesDr. Ebele Mogo
Findings and reflections from a social listening exercise to explore public perceptions on health in the context of the COVID-19 response in Nigeria.
A flash talk presented to the COVID-19 in the Global South group of Cambridge Global Challenges and Cambridge Africa.
In cooperation with the Research and Evaluation Division of BRAC, Copenhagen Consensus Center organized roundtable discussions with an aim to figure out smarter solutions to the most problematic issues facing Bangladesh.
Skills and Gaps: A Capacity Needs Assessment of Peri-urban Dairy Chains aroun...ILRI
Presentation by Jan van der Lee, Abebe Tessama, Mengistu Nigussie and Mekdes Asfaw at the National dairy forum, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 23-24 November 2010.
Empowering women to participate fully in economic life across all sectors and throughout all levels of economic activity is essential to:
■ Build strong economies;
■ Establish more stable and just societies;
■ Achieve internationally- agreed goals for development, sustainability and human rights;
■ Improve quality of life for women, men, families and communities; and
■ Propel businesses’ operations and goals.
Yet, ensuring the inclusion of women’s talents, skills, experience and energies requires intentional actions and deliberate policies. The Women’s Empowerment Principles provide a set of considerations to help the private sector focus on key elements integral to promoting gender equality in the workplace, marketplace and community. Enhancing openness and inclusion throughout corporate policies and operations requires techniques, tools and practices that bring results.
The Women’s Empowerment Principles, forged through an international multi-stakeholder consultative process led by the United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM) and the United Nations Global Compact (UNGC), provide a “gender lens” through which business can survey and analyze current initiatives, benchmarks and reporting practices. Informed by real-life business practices, the Principles help Introduction companies tailor existing policies and practices —or establish needed new ones— to realize women’s empowerment. The Principles also reflect the interests of governments and civil society and will support interactions among stakeholders as achieving gender equality requires the participation of all actors.
As a leader in gender equality, UNIFEM brings three decades of experience to this partnership effort with the UN Global Compact, the world’s largest corporate citizenship initiative with more than 7,000 business participants and other stakeholders involved in more than 135 countries. In an increasingly globalized and interconnected world, utilizing all social and economic assets is crucial for success. Yet, despite progress, women continue to confront discrimination, marginalization and exclusion, even though equality between men and women stands as a universal international precept—a fundamental and inviolable human right.
Nearly all countries have affirmed this value through their recognition of the standards contained in international human rights treaties, which articulate for states a broad range of civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights. Distinctive documents highlight a spectrum of state responsibilities and human rights protections for women, indigenous peoples, children, workers and people with disabilities. Additionally, internationally agreed- on documents such as the Beijing Platform for Action adopted by all 189 countries at the Fourth World Conference on Women in 1995 and the Millennium Declaration adopted by 189 countries in 2000, contribute to the overarching human rights framework.
Women's participation in the labour market is dependent on a number of factors. The policies and the budget has to be gender sensitive to create an enabling environment for the women workers. We need to shift from the gender neutral approach to the gender sensitive approach.by asking the right questions during budget preparation.
Tackling corruption in the health sector: the role of the Medicines Transpare...MeTApresents
Presentation from the Medicines Transparency Alliance (MeTA) at the 13th International Anti-Corruption Conference, held in Athens, Greece, November 2008. This highlights the way in which MeTA is working in 7 countries to improve acess to medicines through greater transparency and accountability around the way in which medicines are purchased and used.
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This presentation helps to know about gender equality at individual level and in corporates. It also enables to deal with these situations and how to handle them.
By Cholnapa Aukul, SIRNet Manager
Presentation on Saturday, July 19, 2014: 8:30 AM-10:20 AM, "Collaborative Governance for Health Equity and Healthy Public Policies" Room: F206, RC15 Sociology of Health, by the 18th ISA World Congress of Sociology in Yokohama, Japan.
The vital interconnections between health, oceans and climate changeUN SPHS
Dr. Richard Hixson (Consultant in Clinical Care Medicine and Co-Founder of Healthcare Ocean) at the 5h Saving Lives Sustainably Global Forum 2022 on 23 November 2022.
Resilient Circular Economy Medical Textile SolutionsUN SPHS
Dr. Tom Dawson
(Founder, Revolution-ZERO and Visiting Research Fellow in Healthcare Circular Economics, University of Exeter) at the 5th Saving Lives Sustainably Global Forum 2022 on 24 November 2022.
Clara Inés Meneses Sandoval (Environmental Management Coordinator, Fundación Club Noel, Colombia) at the 5h Saving Lives Sustainably Global Forum 2022 on 23 November 2022.
Pablo Tobón Uribe Hospital Strategy in the reuse of personal protection eleme...UN SPHS
Ana Zoraida Gomez Diaz (Director, Department of General Services and Environmental Management Hospital Pablo Tobón Uribe, Colombia) at the 5h Saving Lives Sustainably Global Forum 2022 on 24 November 2022.
Resilient Circular Economy Medical Textile SolutionsUN SPHS
Dr. Tom Dawson (Founder, Revolution-ZERO and Visiting Research Fellow in Healthcare Circular Economics, University of Exeter) at the 5th Saving Lives Sustainably Global Forum 2022 on 24 November 2022.
Global Fund Emergency Response for BangladeshUN SPHS
Lahiru Perera (Project Manager, UNOPS) and Ekramul Haque (Deputy Program Manager, National Malaria Elimination & Aedes Transmitted Diseases Control Program, PM, BAN-MAL & Dengue; CDC, DGHS) at the 5th Saving Lives Sustainably Global Forum 2022 on 23 November 2022.
Vaccine supply chain: challenges and opportunitiesUN SPHS
Dr. Asel Sartbaeva
(Reader in Chemistry Department of Chemistry, University of Bath) at the 5th Saving Lives Sustainably Global Forum 2022 on 23 November 2022.
Reducing wasted medical equipment donated by iNGOsUN SPHS
Rodrigo Acosta, Zermeno Biomedical Specialist, International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), at the 5th Saving Lives Sustainably Global Forum 2022 on 23 November 2022.
Understanding and addressing the effects of the pandemic on health care waste...UN SPHS
Paeng Lopez, Plastics in Health Care Project Coordinator, Health Care Without Harm Asia, at the 5th Saving Lives Sustainably Global Forum 2022 on 23 November 2022.
Building sustainability into the NHS Supply ChainUN SPHS
By Alexandra Hammond, Head of Sustainable Procurement and Supply, NHS England at the 5th Saving Lives Sustainably Global Forum 2022 on 23 November 2022.
The Global Fund- SPHS Engagement: Responsible Procurement FrameworkUN SPHS
The Global Fund and SPHS will solicit comments and advice on the project, and will collect any relevant experiences that the SPHS members can share from efforts to implement responsible/sustainable procurement practices. Deloitte will also prepare some questions to help focus the discussions.
The recording of the webinar is available here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1BIYLDyOMVfbcsIzOB-5hfY7FBbI3ZLzh/view
Sustainable Procurement Index for Health (SPIH) Virtual SessionUN SPHS
This virtual session provides you with an overview of the Sustainable Procurement Index for Health (SPIH). Details are provided on how the SPIH is structured, an overview of the key themes and questions, and the scoring system. Typical use cases for the SPIH are set out, and feedback from recent piloting and testing sessions is shared.
For more information please contact Ian Milimo at ian.milimo@undp.org and visit savinglivesustainably.org
Pulmonary Thromboembolism - etilogy, types, medical- Surgical and nursing man...VarunMahajani
Disruption of blood supply to lung alveoli due to blockage of one or more pulmonary blood vessels is called as Pulmonary thromboembolism. In this presentation we will discuss its causes, types and its management in depth.
Recomendações da OMS sobre cuidados maternos e neonatais para uma experiência pós-natal positiva.
Em consonância com os ODS – Objetivos do Desenvolvimento Sustentável e a Estratégia Global para a Saúde das Mulheres, Crianças e Adolescentes, e aplicando uma abordagem baseada nos direitos humanos, os esforços de cuidados pós-natais devem expandir-se para além da cobertura e da simples sobrevivência, de modo a incluir cuidados de qualidade.
Estas diretrizes visam melhorar a qualidade dos cuidados pós-natais essenciais e de rotina prestados às mulheres e aos recém-nascidos, com o objetivo final de melhorar a saúde e o bem-estar materno e neonatal.
Uma “experiência pós-natal positiva” é um resultado importante para todas as mulheres que dão à luz e para os seus recém-nascidos, estabelecendo as bases para a melhoria da saúde e do bem-estar a curto e longo prazo. Uma experiência pós-natal positiva é definida como aquela em que as mulheres, pessoas que gestam, os recém-nascidos, os casais, os pais, os cuidadores e as famílias recebem informação consistente, garantia e apoio de profissionais de saúde motivados; e onde um sistema de saúde flexível e com recursos reconheça as necessidades das mulheres e dos bebês e respeite o seu contexto cultural.
Estas diretrizes consolidadas apresentam algumas recomendações novas e já bem fundamentadas sobre cuidados pós-natais de rotina para mulheres e neonatos que recebem cuidados no pós-parto em unidades de saúde ou na comunidade, independentemente dos recursos disponíveis.
É fornecido um conjunto abrangente de recomendações para cuidados durante o período puerperal, com ênfase nos cuidados essenciais que todas as mulheres e recém-nascidos devem receber, e com a devida atenção à qualidade dos cuidados; isto é, a entrega e a experiência do cuidado recebido. Estas diretrizes atualizam e ampliam as recomendações da OMS de 2014 sobre cuidados pós-natais da mãe e do recém-nascido e complementam as atuais diretrizes da OMS sobre a gestão de complicações pós-natais.
O estabelecimento da amamentação e o manejo das principais intercorrências é contemplada.
Recomendamos muito.
Vamos discutir essas recomendações no nosso curso de pós-graduação em Aleitamento no Instituto Ciclos.
Esta publicação só está disponível em inglês até o momento.
Prof. Marcus Renato de Carvalho
www.agostodourado.com
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This includes all relevant anatomy and clinical tests compiled from standard textbooks, Campbell,netter etc..It is comprehensive and best suited for orthopaedicians and orthopaedic residents.
Report Back from SGO 2024: What’s the Latest in Cervical Cancer?bkling
Are you curious about what’s new in cervical cancer research or unsure what the findings mean? Join Dr. Emily Ko, a gynecologic oncologist at Penn Medicine, to learn about the latest updates from the Society of Gynecologic Oncology (SGO) 2024 Annual Meeting on Women’s Cancer. Dr. Ko will discuss what the research presented at the conference means for you and answer your questions about the new developments.
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There are a number of conditions that present acutely, predominantly with pain and/or swelling
A careful and detailed history and examination, and in some cases, investigations allow differentiation between these diagnoses. A prompt diagnosis is essential as the patient may require urgent surgical intervention
Testicular torsion refers to twisting of the spermatic cord, causing ischaemia of the testicle.
Testicular torsion results from inadequate fixation of the testis to the tunica vaginalis producing ischemia from reduced arterial inflow and venous outflow obstruction.
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Tom Selleck Health: A Comprehensive Look at the Iconic Actor’s Wellness Journeygreendigital
Tom Selleck, an enduring figure in Hollywood. has captivated audiences for decades with his rugged charm, iconic moustache. and memorable roles in television and film. From his breakout role as Thomas Magnum in Magnum P.I. to his current portrayal of Frank Reagan in Blue Bloods. Selleck's career has spanned over 50 years. But beyond his professional achievements. fans have often been curious about Tom Selleck Health. especially as he has aged in the public eye.
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Introduction
Many have been interested in Tom Selleck health. not only because of his enduring presence on screen but also because of the challenges. and lifestyle choices he has faced and made over the years. This article delves into the various aspects of Tom Selleck health. exploring his fitness regimen, diet, mental health. and the challenges he has encountered as he ages. We'll look at how he maintains his well-being. the health issues he has faced, and his approach to ageing .
Early Life and Career
Childhood and Athletic Beginnings
Tom Selleck was born on January 29, 1945, in Detroit, Michigan, and grew up in Sherman Oaks, California. From an early age, he was involved in sports, particularly basketball. which played a significant role in his physical development. His athletic pursuits continued into college. where he attended the University of Southern California (USC) on a basketball scholarship. This early involvement in sports laid a strong foundation for his physical health and disciplined lifestyle.
Transition to Acting
Selleck's transition from an athlete to an actor came with its physical demands. His first significant role in "Magnum P.I." required him to perform various stunts and maintain a fit appearance. This role, which he played from 1980 to 1988. necessitated a rigorous fitness routine to meet the show's demands. setting the stage for his long-term commitment to health and wellness.
Fitness Regimen
Workout Routine
Tom Selleck health and fitness regimen has evolved. adapting to his changing roles and age. During his "Magnum, P.I." days. Selleck's workouts were intense and focused on building and maintaining muscle mass. His routine included weightlifting, cardiovascular exercises. and specific training for the stunts he performed on the show.
Selleck adjusted his fitness routine as he aged to suit his body's needs. Today, his workouts focus on maintaining flexibility, strength, and cardiovascular health. He incorporates low-impact exercises such as swimming, walking, and light weightlifting. This balanced approach helps him stay fit without putting undue strain on his joints and muscles.
Importance of Flexibility and Mobility
In recent years, Selleck has emphasized the importance of flexibility and mobility in his fitness regimen. Understanding the natural decline in muscle mass and joint flexibility with age. he includes stretching and yoga in his routine. These practices help prevent injuries, improve posture, and maintain mobilit
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SPHS Webinar Series: Human Rights and Gender Equality in the Global Health Supply Chains
1. Welcome to the
SPHS Webinar Series
"Human Rights and Gender
Equality in Health Supply
Chains"
www.savinglivesustainably.org
October 17, 2017
2. Agenda
1. Welcome remarks by the moderator
2. Introduction to speakers
3. Presentations
• UNDP: Introduction to the SPHS initiative
• UNDP: Gender Equality in the Global Health
Supply Chains
• Ethical Trading Initiative: Human Rights and
Gender Equality in Health Supply Chains
• British Medical Association: The Human Cost of
Healthcare
4. Q&A
3. Speakers
Ms. Bharati Sadasivam
Gender Practice Team Leader
UNDP
Ms. Arthy Hartwell
Head of International & Immigration, Professionalism,
and Guidance, Policy Directorate
British Medical Association
Ms. Cindy Berman
Head of Modern Slavery Strategy
Ethical Trading Initiative
4. Sustainable Procurement
in the Health Sector
(SPHS)
Dr. Rosemary Kumwenda
SPHS Coordinator and Team Leader for Regional
HIV, Health and Development, UNDP Europe and
CIS
SPHS Webinar Series : Human Rights and Gender
Equality in Health Supply Chains, October 17,
2017
INTRODUCTION
5. Global perspectives on
health and environment
SPHS Task Team is, through a transparent and
inclusive engagement process, leveraging its
normative and market power, lowering the
environmental impact of its procurement, with a final
aim of improving human health and well-being.
15. GET IN TOUCH @ www.savinglivesustainably.org
Twitter: @UN_SPHS
We look forward to working with you on
a more sustainable global health sector.
16. Gender Equality in the
Global Health Supply
Chains
Ms. Bharati Sadasivam
Gender Practice Team Leader
UNDP Europe and CIS
SPHS Webinar Series : Human Rights and Gender
Equality in Health Supply Chains, October 17,
2017
PRESENTATION #1
17. Global template for complex world
Universal in scope
Reflects concerns of rich advanced economies and developing
world
Poverty, deprivation, inequality (including gender inequality),
and unsustainable patterns of production and consumption are
common concerns
The 2030 Agenda
for Sustainable
Development
18. Scope: economic, social, environmental, and political dimensions
of inequality and injustice.
Reflects concern with structural issues at a time of rising
inequality through the goals of:
Reducing inequality (Goal 10)
Strengthening full employment and decent work (Goal 8)
Supporting quality investments in infrastructure (Goal 9), health
(Goal 3), education (Goal 4)
Ensuring sustainable consumption and production patterns
(Goal 12)Broad and
ambitious
agenda
19. Broad scope of targets:
Discriminatory laws, harmful practices, violence against women
and girls
Sexual and reproductive health and reproductive rights
Distribution of unpaid care work
Access to productive resources
Participation in decision-makingGoal 5: Achieve
gender equality
and empower all
women and girls
20. Besides Goal 5, UN Country Teams identified Goal 1 (“End
poverty in all its forms”) as the SDG where gender most needs
to be mainstreamed in ECA countries.
ECA Country Teams identified the following targets as priorities:
5.1: End all forms of discrimination against all women and
girls everywhere (75.8%)
5.2: Eliminate all forms of violence against all women and
girls in the public and private spheres, including trafficking and
sexual and other types of exploitation (72.7%)
5.c: Adopt and strengthen sound policies and enforceable
legislation for the promotion of gender equality and the
empowerment of all women and girls at all (75.8%)
UN Country
Team priority
targets
21. Need to tackle a broad set of core issues and challenges, such
as:
Unpaid care/domestic work - gendered division of labour in non-
market based productive activities
Labour regulation, social security
Access to/control over assets and resources
Gender-based violence
Access to justice, legal protection
This can only be done through addressing structural
causes/drivers, not symptoms:
Inequality in power relations between women and men
Social norms, stereotypes and practices that discriminate
against women and girls in all development spheres (economic,
social, political, environmental)
SDGs and global
health supply
chains
22. The UNCTAD report Trade and Gender (2004: 16) summarises
the ways in which trade can affect gender equality:
A positive or negative impact on growth and employment
opportunities;
Competitive pressures, which may reduce or encourage gender
discrimination, in particular wage differentials;
Facilitating or raising barriers to access by women to resources
and services; and
Multilateral trading rules, which may facilitate or constrain
governments in applying policies or regulations that address
gender inequality
SDGs and global
health supply
chains
23. Drivers of gender inequality in supply chains:
Working hours, particularly involuntary overtime
Freedom of association and collective bargaining
Informal labour and forced labour: Women and girls represent
the greatest share of the 21 million people in forced labour
globally
Horizontal and vertical job segregation, gendered divisions of
labourSDGs and global
health supply
chains
24. SDGs and global
health supply
chains
Integrating gender equality principles into global heath supply
chains will increase:
Safety
Sustainability
Efficiency
Equity
25. Women’s
Empowerment
Principles
Principle 5: Implement enterprise development, supply chain
and marketing practices that empower women
Expand business relationships with women-owned enterprises,
including small businesses, and women entrepreneurs
Support gender-sensitive solutions to credit and lending
barriers Ask business partners and peers to respect the company’s
commitment to advancing equality and inclusion
Respect the dignity of women in all marketing and other
company materials
Ensure that company products, services and facilities are not
used for human trafficking and/or labour or sexual exploitation
26. Promoting
gender equality
through
procurement
The following measures should be considered while designing
procurement strategy and guidelines:
Consider women led businesses or businesses that employ
more women for procurement contracts; consider companies
that employ 50% women or have clear gender equality policies in
place.
Target companies that implement preferential gender
responsive procurement policy for award of contracts.
Recruit, train and promote women in public procurement
Simplify tendering processes
Include gender-responsive evaluation criteria
Encourage signing of voluntary agreement
Disaggregate procurement data
27. Procurement in health sector value chains has great potential for
equal opportunities in employment.
It is important to train and equip responsible officials and
agencies with information that will help them understand how to
advance women’s employment and address gender dimensions in
procurement processes. This is not, and should not be a “gender-
neutral” sector.
All sectors including international organizations: it is important
to invest in the health manufacturing and supply chain sector
with a gender lens because of the multiple ways in which such
investment can advance Agenda 2030 and the SDGs at national
levels.
Conclusions
28. Human Rights and Gender
Equality in Health Supply
Chains
Ms. Cindy Berman
Head of Modern Slavery Strategy
Ethical Trading Initiative
PRESENTATION #2
29. Presentation
Outline
⚫ What is ETI and how do we work?
⚫ Labour rights risks in health supply chains (Pakistan example)
⚫ Gender dimensions of health supply chains
⚫ How to tackle this
⚫ UN Guiding Principles on Business & Human Rights
⚫ Human Rights Due Diligence
⚫ Critical elements of a response
⚫ Opportunities
⚫ Further resources
32. Employment is freely chosen
Freedom of association
& the right to collective
bargaining
Safe and hygienic working
conditions
No child labour
Living wages are paid
Working hours are not excessive
No discrimination
Regular employment
No inhumane treatment
THE ETI BASE CODE
33. ETI
Influencing
policy &
practice
Building
capacity
Supply chain
programmes
Sharing
knowledge &
learning
Accountability
& reporting
Enabling
collaboration
– locally &
globally
Modern Slavery Act,
Cambodia, Bangladesh Accord
TNMS, Turkey, Spain,
Rajasthan, South Africa,
Kenya, Morocco, Peru
Training on Modern Slavery
and Due Diligence;
Coaching
India, Bangladesh, China
Pakistan, Turkey etc.
Guidance, toolkits,
research, events,
sharing lessons &
resources
Company annual
reporting and review
ETHICAL TRADING INITIATIVE
34. Health Supply
Chains
⚫ Increasing global demand for health supplies (ageing etc.)
⚫ Complex and fragmented supply chains – multiple countries,
manufacturing processes
⚫ Increasingly globalised & deregulated labour markets
⚫ Procurement rules and regulations – cost drivers, speed,
volume, security of supply & product quality
⚫ Labour / human rights risks – race to the bottom
⚫ Lack of coherence – modern slavery legislation, increasing
human rights due diligence regulation vs government systems
⚫ Limited expertise, resource & capacity
⚫ Sourcing from countries with poor governance, limited space for
civil society, media, trade unions, transparency
Key Issues
35. Labour Rights
Risks in Health
Supply Chains
⚫ Long supply chains - rights violation risks at every stage
⚫ Lack of visibility, oversight, problems with audits
⚫ Multi-staged manufacturing processes
⚫ Authorised & unauthorised sub-contracting
⚫Unregistered, unregulated small units & businesses
⚫ Informal sector & home working (gender dimensions)
⚫ No formal contracts – workers paid piece rate no fixed wages
⚫ Poor / no oversight of health & safety, wages, hours
⚫ Lack of record-keeping, HR systems
⚫ Use of labour contractors (no employer/employee relationship)
⚫ Unscrupulous recruitment practices, debt bondage risks
⚫ Piece rates, rather than a fixed regular income.
36. An example: NHS
Supply Labour
Management
Assurance
System
⚫ Based on ETI Base Code
⚫ Four step assurance system – suppliers must be at Level 2 to bid
for contracts, must reach level 3 within 18 months
⚫
37. Gender issues in
global value
chains
⚫ Increasingly feminized wage labour
⚫ Discrimination (added to other labour rights risks )
⚫ low / unskilled work
⚫ precarious work
⚫ low status jobs, limited advancement opportunities
⚫ poorly paid
⚫ long hours, no flexible working
⚫ poor health & safety at work & to work
⚫ childcare, domestic responsibilities not recognised
⚫ subject to sexual harassment, threat & abuse
⚫ limited representation, voice, choice & negotiation power
⚫ Home working (piece rates, rights as workers not recognised, no
oversight, isolated, lack of collective organising power)
⚫ Very poor data (lack of sex-disaggregated data & monitoring)
Some of the challenges…
38. Gender
dimensions to
consider
⚫ Agency (trade union; other organization;
individual / collective voice & decision-making)
⚫ Aspiration (meeting goals, opportunities for
advancement)
⚫ Dignity (treatment, behavior, attitudes)
⚫ Reward (wages, other benefits – including
maternity, childcare etc.)
⚫ Safety (including sexual violence & harassment,
safety to & from work & at work)
⚫ Security (job & income security, permanent /
temporary contracts, formal/informal work)
39. The way forward:
Tackling human
rights & gender
equality in health
supply chains
3 Pillars of the UN Guiding Principles for Business and Human Rights
UN Guiding Principles on
Business & Human Rights
40. ETI human rights
due diligence
framework
Human rights due diligence is the action taken by a
company to both identify and act upon actual and
potential risks for workers in its operations, supply
chains and the services it uses
Includes:
⚫Assessment of actual and potential human rights risks
⚫Mitigation of risk and remediation for workers impacted by
human rights violations
⚫Identification of corporate leverage and responsibility, decision-
making and actions needed
⚫Monitoring, review, reporting and continuous improvement
Driving leadership and
improvements in
corporate operations
and global supply chains
41.
42. CRITICAL
ELEMENTS
⚫ Recognise complexity – no quick fixes
⚫ Recognise roles and responsibilities
⚫ Diagnose the problems and design appropriate solutions
⚫ Use leverage – government’s own procurement power is huge!
⚫ Build partnerships and foster collaboration
⚫ Carrot and Stick works
⚫ incentivise change but
⚫ hold those responsible to account
⚫ Rights, dignity and agency of workers respected & advanced
⚫ Better information to drive decision-making
⚫ Transparency & public accountability is key
⚫Review, learn, monitor, evaluate, share lessons
43. OPPORTUNITIES
⚫ SDGs provide key opportunity for entry points
⚫ New legislation (UK MSA, EU Directives, French, Dutch law)
⚫ OSCE initiative to drive public procurement, transparency,
labour monitoring and enforcement - engage with member states,
use guidance
⚫Engage with government departments & local authorities
providing health services & supplies. Insist on ethical procurement
⚫ Identify leaders & good practice (e.g. NHS Supply – Labour
Monitoring and Assurance System)
⚫ Work with experts, engage with trade unions, civil society
organisations, representatives of vulnerable workers
44. THANK YOU!
Guidance & more info:
www.ethicaltrade.org
• Human Rights Due Diligence Framework
• ETI Base Code Guidance series
• Blogs & briefings
• Research reports
• Training – through our website
45. The Human Cost of
Healthcare
Ms. Arthy Hartwell
Head of International
British Medical Association
PRESENTATION #3
46. Many suppliers to
the NHS
outsource the
manufacture of
their products to
factories around
the world
48. “Ethical procurement is
about the overall
practices of purchasing
organisations and the
steps they take to ensure
that employment
conditions and workers’
rights, in the supply
chains of the products
and services they
procure, are maintained
in line with
internationally
recognised conventions
and local laws, as a
minimum”
49. “The provision of
healthcare goods
and services is big
business”
Department of Health
NHS EnglandNHS Wales NHS Scotland
Commissioning
Groups
NHS providers
NHS
Supply
Chain
ServicesGoods
Scottish
Health
Supplies
Welsh
Health
Supplies
Procurement
Hubs
Healthcare Industry
50. Department of Health
NHS EnglandNHS Wales NHS Scotland
Commissioning
Groups
NHS providers
NHS
Supply
Chain
Service
s
Goods
Scottish
Health
Supplie
s
Welsh
Health
Supplie
s
Procuremen
t Hubs
Healthcare Industry
Assured labour standards
in contracts for surgical
instruments & some
textiles
2013
Gloves, procedure packs,
disposable curtains,
suction consumables2014
Polymer products, theatre
clothing, continence
products
2015
Wound care, office
furniture, podiatry
2016
£18m
£110m
£142m
£80m
51. Labour
Standards
Assurance
System
⚫Pioneering approach to
include ethical procurement
considerations into the tender
for Surgical Instruments (2012)
⚫Covers a range of policies,
procedures and practices to;
identify labour standards
issues, mitigate risks, and drive
continuous improvement.
⚫Responsibility is on the
supplier to demonstrate they
have effective systems in
place.
Level 4 – Progressive
demonstrates leadership level management of
labour standards.
Level 3 – Established Implementation
robust system for managing labour standards in
place. A more action-orientated level of
compliance.
Level 2 – Initiating Implementation
Demonstrates progression from level 1 and
started to implement processes and procedures
to manage labour standards.
Level 1 – Foundation
Sets the building blocks for labour standards
management in practice. Begun to consider
how labour standards relate to its business.
52. Ethical
procurement for
health workbook
Provide practical guidance for
organisations in the health and
social care sector to embed labour
standards considerations into
procurement and supplier
management activities.
Promote awareness of labour
standards risk in supply chains
serving the health and care sector.
Demonstrate that ethical trade is
compatible with public contracting
policy and regulation.
Address the misperception that
ethical trade is incompatible with
public procurement law and/or
value for money requirements.
54. Legislative
environment
UK Modern Slavery Act 2016
EU Non-Financial Reporting Directive
2014/95/EU
EU Public Procurement Directive
2014/36/EU
UK Public Contract Regulations 2015
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Twitter: @UN_SPHS
We look forward to working with you on
a more sustainable global health sector.
Editor's Notes
Good morning, good afternoon and good evening everyone, and thank you very much for joining the first of the United Nations Informal Interagency task team on Sustainable Procurement in the Health Sector (SPHS) webinar series. Today’s webinar is on “Human Rights and Gender Equality in Health Supply Chains.”
My name is Dr. Rosemary Kumwenda. I am the UNDP HIV Health and Development Regional Team Leader for Eastern Europe and Central Asia and Coordinator of the SPHS. I will moderate the webinar and briefly present the SPHS. I will start with introducing the speakers, and then we will continue with the presentations, after which we will have a Q&A session.
Our first speaker today is Ms. Bharati Sadasivam, Gender Practice Team Leader from UNDP. As Regional Gender Advisor, she supports Country Offices and territories in the Eastern Europe and CIS region in advancing gender equality and women’s empowerment in policies and programmes. Bharati will focus on Gender Equality in the Global Health Supply Chains in her presentation.
Our second speaker is Ms. Cindy Berman, Head of Modern Slavery Strategy from Ethical Trading Initiative. In her current role, Cindy leads ETI’s international work on modern slavery, research, engagement with the private sector and provides expert advisory support to international organizations such as the OSCE, and donors such as the UK Department for International Development. Cindy will focus on Human Rights and Gender Equality in Health Supply Chains,
Our third speaker today is Ms. Arthy Hartwell, Head of International & Immigration, Professionalism, and Guidance, Policy Directorate from British Medical Association. Arthy Hartwell is an experienced global health policy specialist, who has established expertise in public policy, foreign affairs, international project management and political risk. Arthy will focus on the Human Cost of Healthcare.
In case you have any questions during the presentation of our speakers, please feel free to submit them in the chat box. Thank you.
Briefly, before we move to three highly interesting perspectives on Human Rights and Gender Equality in the Health Supply Chains, I would like to present to you UN informal Interagency Task Team on Sustainable Procurement in the Health Sector, which brought to you the SPHS Webinar Series.
As a Coordinator of the SPHS Secretariat, I will offer insights into the UN perspective on how we, in collaboration with the Member States, the private sector and technical experts, work on sustainable global health sector, with the final aim of improving human health and well-being.
I would like to begin with a brief introduction of the SPHS initiative, answering the question who we are.
The initiative spun off from the momentum created by the UN’s Greening the Blue, a UN-wide campaign embedding sustainability throughout its operations to move towards climate neutrality.
There was a rising interest in the UN procurement operations of health commodities and services. Staff of various UN agencies came together, realizing the agencies aims of improving human health and planetary health, could be further supported by lowering the environmental impact of UN procurement.
The SPHS was officially established in May 2012 in Copenhagen, Denmark. The initiative has since grown to include 7 UN agencies and 3 multilateral health financing institutions and since 2015, the SPHS is hosted by the UNDP Istanbul Regional Hub.
SPHS facilitates and coordinates the introduction of sustainable procurement in the health sector among its members through technical expertise and in addition, it leverages the normative mandate and joint procurement volumes of the SPHS member agencies to influence the global health sector and beyond towards greener health systems and green economies.
In 2015, 23% of total UN procurement was related to the health procurement, which represents one of the most significant sectors for which the UN Agencies are procuring for. In addition, total SPHS UN Agencies health procurement accounted for an astonishing 97% of the total UN health procurement. This means that with the USD 4 billion cumulative purchasing power of SPHS UN Agencies in the global health sector, can be leveraged with the SPHS members’ standard-setting role, to engage actively and, where feasible, with suppliers and manufacturers to introduce and enhance sustainable procurement in public health.
Looking at the 2013-2015 UN health procurement, we can see a steady increase, with a 9.3% growth from 2014 to 2015.
Four key procurement segments that fall into the UN health procurement are shown on this slide and they are:
Pharmaceuticals including contraceptives
Medical equipment
Healthcare services
Laboratory and Testing Equipment.
Pharmaceuticals represent the highest health-related procurement segment for the SPHS UN Agencies, with 72%. This segment also saw an increase of 13% between 2014 and 2015.
For the SPHS Secretariat, it is important to understand the linkages between our work, the SPHS focus areas and the SDGS.
The SPHS initiative represents a great example of financing and implementing the SDG, by gathering the public and private sector connected to sustainable health procurement.
The SPHS initiative is linked to many of the SDGs, however I’d like to highlight four of them in particular today, which are
Goal 3: Ensure Healthy Lives and Promote Well-Being for all at all ages,
Goal 12: Ensure Sustainable Consumption and Production Patterns,
Goal 17: Strengthen the Means of Implementation and Revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development.
Our initiative is more global than ever, and the SPHS Secretariat has strongly focused on strengthening its partnership with various partner organizations from around the world. We currently have more than 4,700 contacts in our global network of collaborators. By identifying top technical experts in various SPHS focus areas, we were able to share nearly 400 collaboration opportunities, which are shown on our platform www.savinglivesustainably.org. And lastly, through our Member Agencies, we are covering 177 countries.
We started with three pillars to our work. Normative, Operational and Financial
Of course, our financial pillar focuses on our collective purchasing power
Operationally, we engage UN procurement officers, suppliers and manufacturers and other key health actors to introduce and operationalize sustainable procurement practices in the health sector
The establishment of evidence-based standards on what constitutes sustainable procurement in the health sector, and activities to address research gaps constitutes some of our normative work.
As mentioned previously, the SPHS online engagement platform represents an important channels for sharing good practices. Novel online platform named savinglivesustainably.org, was generously supported by our donors Skoll Foundation, UN Foundation, Danish Government and UNDP Innovation Facility.
The platform serves as a knowledge-hub of on sustainable production and procurement, and it offers you hundreds of examples of cross-cutting innovations, how other public institutions, hospitals, private companies contributed to the SDGs and how this resulted in more sustainable supply chains.
Besides the SDGs and focus areas, you can also explore the content based on your geographical location of interest.
It is meant to be used as a meeting point for decision-makers, policy-makers, procurement practitioners, academia, suppliers and manufacturers, hospitals and other interested institutions and individuals to share best practices and lessons learnt.
We aim to help bridge the gap between the procurement practitioners and health suppliers and manufacturers and become ‘two-way street’ showcasing not only the SPHS examples, but also encouraging all stakeholders interested in sustainable health procurement to share their own success stories.
The SPHS Secretariat conducts due diligence process when it comes to its network, and on this slide I would like to share with you the distribution of our network per organizational types and areas of expertise. Most of our network are suppliers and manufacturers (67%) followed by technical experts (13%) and governmental organizations (10%). When it comes to the areas of expertise, 23% network is specialized in sustainable development, 21% in medical products, 10% in resource efficiency, and the rest you can see on this slide.
It is extremely important for the SPHS Secretariat to communicate about the key achievements of its Member Agencies and its collaborators. We had a good year for communications, and in 2016 we had nearly 14 million media impressions. Our network focus was initially on the SPHS newsletter, which later moved to the SPHS platform. The SPHS platform serves as no. 1 media channel for the SPHS, accounting for 95% of the total network engagement. 2 out of 3 visitors come back to the platform, spending on average 11 minutes. Besides the platform, we have 6 additional communication channels, on which we share our presentations, documents, and other resources and we invite you to visit them.
As we look forward into phase two of our initiative, we continue to set our sights on the broad horizon:
We want to develop universally adaptable criteria and standards
Foster sustainable procurement in the health sector
Foster sustainable manufacturing of health products
And finally measure the success and impact of these efforts, to continue to learn from them.
For more information on our work and current projects; you can also follow us on twitter , and receive regular updates on the SPHS initiative by subscribing to our Newsletter. In case you have any questions, please do not hesitate to ask. Thank you.
Working hours: Involuntary overtime may add stress to women in balancing their jobs with their caregiving and home duties. Overtime also raises security issues for women because traveling to and from work very early in the day or late in the evening may put them at risk of abuse and violence outside of the workplace.
Freedom of association and collective bargaining: Women may not know their rights, or they may not be recruited by trade union representatives, who often discriminate against non-permanent workers, who are usually women. Trade unions or committees may also fail to include women at meetings. Finally, women may face gender-based retaliation for participating, or may self-censor due to prevailing social norms.
Forced labor: Women and girls represent the greatest share of the 21 million people in forced labor globally. Of that number, 14.2 million are victims of forced labor exploitation in economic activities, such as agriculture, construction, domestic work, mining, or manufacturing. Women are often concentrated in informal labor sectors, without legal protections, and are therefore more exposed to forced labor.
Horizontal and vertical job segregation, gendered divisions of labour: relevant to health sector, as medical business sector is largely dominated by men.
The Women's Empowerment Principles are a set of Principles for business offering guidance on how to empower women in the workplace, marketplace and community. They are the result of a collaboration between UN Women and the United Nations Global Compact and are adapted from the Calvert Women's Principles®. More details: http://www.weprinciples.org/
Procurement figures:
-23% of total UN procurement is health procurement
-97% of total UN health procurement is purchased by SPHS UN member agencies
-US $ 4.027 billion (4,027,000,000) = total supplies and services procured by the SPHS UN agencies in 2015
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The following measures should be considered while designing the strategy and guidelines:
- Consider women led businesses or businesses that employ more women for procurement contracts; consider companies that employ 50% women or have clear gender equality policies in place.
- Target companies that implement preferential gender responsive procurement policy for award of contracts.
- Recruit, train and promote women in public procurement: The public procurement policy should have a provision that emphasises the recruitment of more women in the procurement profession and allocation of budget for career enhancement training to enable women move to leadership and decision making positions in public procurement. Currently, procurement as a profession seems to be a fairly male dominated sector. Please address this issue in all capacity building activities by motivating women to participate.
- Simplify tendering processes: The tendering process should be less complicated to motivate women-owned businesses to participate. If possible, budget should be allocated for training of business women on how to participate in public tenders.
- Include gender-responsive evaluation criteria: Revision of solicitation documents to include gender-responsive evaluation criteria for bidders. In the RFP for instance, offerors should be encouraged to include information on the percentage of women employed in their businesses/companies, percentage of women in leadership positions, and percentage of women-owned businesses that are usually sub-contracted. It should be indicated in the RFP that where there are two identical offers (i.e. exact total points in the case of cumulative evaluation methodology and/or same price in the case of most technically compliant/acceptable offer) the contract will be awarded to the organization with 51% or more women ownership/leadership or employs 51% or more women.
- Encourage signing of voluntary agreement: Develop voluntary gender responsive agreements for successful bidders: The voluntary agreement is to be signed by successful bidders in addition to the contract to pledge their commitment to promote gender equality and women’s empowerment in the execution of the awarded contract.
- Disaggregate procurement data: Encourage and develop capacity to disaggregate procurement data such as number of contracts awarded to men owned and women owned businesses; etc. Given the fact that public procurement spending accounts for approximately 15-30% of the GDP globally, incorporating this element in public procurement policy could ensure that procurement of goods, services and civil works will equitably benefit men and women.
Our mission is to improve labour standards and working conditions in global supply chains through collaboration with key stakeholders, recognising that companies, trade unions and civil society organisations have a critical role to play. We also engage with governments and the international community, recognising that they need to set the right enabling environment for labour rights to be recognised, protected and implemented.
The Ethical Trading Initiative (ETI) is a leading alliance of companies, trade unions and NGOs that promotes respect for workers' rights around the globe. Our vision is a world where all workers are free from exploitation and discrimination, and enjoy conditions of freedom, security and equity.
Around 90companies based around the globe with a combined annual turnover in excess of £180 billion and the Well-known brands such as Tesco, Next, Jaeger, Orsay, Mr. Price, Inditex, Jabong, Primark, Pacific Brands, H&M, C&A and supplier members including Fyffes, BidvestFresh and Union Hand-Roasted. Some of our business members are entire holding companies and some are specific business units such as Stella McCartney.Some of the largest trade unions in the world, including the Trades Union Congress, International Trade Union Confederation and Council of Global Unions representing nearly 160 million workers globally.NGOs operating in 40 countries, including large charities like Save the Children, CARE and Oxfam, as well as more specialized NGOs like Partner Africa, Dalit Solidarity Network and Homeworkers Worldwide.
Our code of labour standards – the ETI Base Code – was developed by our tripartite members in 2000. It’s based on the relevant conventions of the International Labour Organisation and underpins all our work.
ETI’s members are committed to integrating the Base Code and corresponding implementation process into core procurement processes and relationships. They drive continues improvement for their business, their sector and their workers and share successes and lessons learned.
Adopted 2011, international framework, unanimously adopted.
Guides global approach to responsible business
Thank you and happy to take any questions.
For more information on our work and current projects; you can also follow us on twitter , and receive regular updates on the SPHS initiative by subscribing to our Newsletter. In case you have any questions, please do not hesitate to ask. Thank you.