Africa, Asia and Eastern Mediterranean 2012 and 2013

advocacy, policymaking and oversight including budget scrutiny and
approval;
- To ensure enabling and enforced legal frameworks for the development,
maintenance, appropriate and comprehensive use of health information;
In furtherance of the above objectives we propose following specific actions:
Urge the IPU and EAC to cooperate in periodically re-packaging information
on maternal, new born and child health to make it user friendly for
parliamentarians;
Urge EALA to develop an action plan for bringing the parliamentary
perspective into on-going initiatives on improving civil registration and vital
statistics;
Implore EALA and the IPU to support meetings of national parliaments with
Human Rights Commissions within their countries to adopt a rights approach
to the issue of MNCH;
Request EALA to compile a record of successful MNCH parliamentary
practices in East Africa for the purposes of sharing with Partner States;
Urge National Parliaments which have adopted the IPU resolution, Access to
health as a basic right: the role of parliaments in addressing key challenges to
securing the health of women and children, to report to the IPU periodically on the
implementation of the resolution;
Encourage National Parliaments to advocate for better information on and for
prioritising provision of essential sexual, reproductive, maternal, newborn
and child health services to vulnerable women and children, including those
with disabilities, those in the poorest households, those living in rural areas
and those living with HIV/AIDS;
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