Afghan Female Health Workers Nominated in ‘Top 100 Midwives and Nurses Leader’ Program December 20,2020
KABUL - The World Health Organization (WHO) has designated 2020 as the “International Year of the Nurse and the Midwife,” in honor of the 200th anniversary of Florence Nightingale’s birth, Nightingale was a visionary nurse and leader. International Year of the Nurse and Midwife organization (YONM) and Women in Global Health (WGH) nominated 100 outstanding nurse and midwife leaders across the world. These nominees were selected and ranked by a steering committee with representatives from Women in WGH and partner organizations such as WHO, UNFPA, International Confederation of Midwives, and Nursing Now.
Hindsight is 2020
A few months ago, I talked about a global health marathon. Now, with several additional mile markers behind us, the 2020 race is nearly in our rear view mirror. Before we cross the finish line, finally getting this year behind us, I want to highlight what we’ve done in the last quarter to further global health progress.
At a high level side event, held on the margins of the United Nations General Assembly in September, advocates focused on spurring global investment for the Access to COVID-19 Tools (ACT) Accelerator (ACT-A) and, in particular, ACT-A’s vaccine pillar (COVAX). At the same time, GHC sought to mobilize support for ACT-A and COVAX here in the U.S. Our team led a
Background to the National Humanitarian Conference (NHC)
Since its creation in 2011, the NHC has been held four times. Here is a look back at the main conclusions of these key humanitarian meetings.
2011 Edition
In 2011, during discussions held at the first National Humanitarian Conference in the presence of Alain Juppé, then Minister for Foreign and European Affairs, the need to strengthen consultation fora for the humanitarian community became apparent. The principle of a national humanitarian conference, meeting regularly and periodically, was agreed against a backdrop of increasingly significant humanitarian needs. Requests for financial support were increasing globally to address the rising number of large-scale disasters and increasingly complex conflicts. The development of a French humanitarian strategy, enshrined in the European Consensus on Humanitarian Aid, was called for, and it materialized in 2012 with the drafting of France’s Humanitarian Strategy (2012-2017).
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