ANNOUNCEMENT

YOUTH INVOLVEMENT AND VIRTUAL PARTICIPATION

Dear Friend,

We bring to your notice, NAYA’s success in supporting four of its youth members to attend and actively participate in the review of the 1995 National Adolescent Health Policy, taking place at:

Venue: Ostra Hotels, behind M.K. O. Abiola Gardens, Ikeja, Lagos
Date: 25th –27th
Time: 9am-5pm daily

You are also invited to cease the opportunity of virtual participation at the meeting. This is a privilege that will give you first hand knowledge of the day-to-day deliberations and opportunity to make your input as regards the review of this policy. We know that this review concerns you, although it may not be possible for you all to be there in person. However, NAYA presents online inroad for you to exercise your civic responsibilities to be a visible partaker in decisions that will affect the future.

Thank you for the decision to make your voices count. For information visit the NAYA website. www.nayafrica.tk


APOSTLE EMMANUEL ETIM
National Coordinator
Network for Adolescents and Youths of Africa (NAYA)

Does this sound familiar?

Over thirty years ago, while still a teenager, I decided I wanted to be rich, healthy, and successful. Although I hadn't a clue as to how to achieve those goals, I knew there must be a way - a system I could follow that would lead me directly to those goals.

So, at the ripe old age of sixteen, I started reading books, listening to audio programs, and attending seminars about wealth, health, and success. Since then, I've read hundreds of books, listened to thousands of hours of audio programs, and attended dozens of seminars on how to get rich, how to be healthy, and how to become successful.

Some of these books, audio programs, and seminars were helpful, providing bits and pieces of the puzzle. Most proved to be absolutely worthless!

None of them provided what I was really looking for - a complete, simple, practical, easy-to-understand, step-by-step system for getting rich, being healthy, and becoming successful.

Quite frankly, after nearly thirty years of study, I'd very little to show for it. I was working hard, very hard, yet struggling financially. I was grossly overweight and my health was starting to falter. And, I was anything but successful.

Strangely enough, the more books I read, the more audio programs I listened to, and the more seminars I attended, the worse my life seemed to get.

"Others still are poor because, while they have some notion of science, they have become so swamped and lost in the maze of... theories that they do not know which road to take. They try a mixture of many systems and fail in all."

Wallace D. Wattles
In "The Science of Getting Rich"


Frustrated and discouraged, I'd just about given up my quest for such a system...

2005 was a landmark year in the fight against poverty. 2006 we are continuing to act together to ensure world leaders take the necessary steps to challenge gross inequalities and global poverty. GCAP is uniting again in global solidarity for the Month of Action 2006, which runs from September 16th through to October 17th.

Get involved! During the month of action millions of people across the world will Stand Up Against Poverty with GCAP. They will be calling on their governments to act to bring an end to poverty.

What you can do - IndividualWear a white band. Take a look at how people used whitebands around the world in 2005.

Stand Up Against Poverty, and take part in the Stand Up World Record Attempt on 15th/16th October.
Pledge support by adding their voice to our e-action that will launch on September 16

Find out what GCAP Month of Mobilisation activities are happening in your country.

Sign up to receive GCAP's newsletter and stay update with our latest news and events

What you can do - Organisations or groups

Organise a Stand Up Against Poverty event. Find out how.

Contact your local GCAP coalition to find out how you can support their activities. More Information: -

http://www.whiteband.org/Lib/take_action/take_action/gcap_issues/

More information about the African Women and Youth Conference in Dakar, Senegal March 10-11, 2007



We are delighted to hear that you and your organization are interested in the African Women and Youth conference in Dakar, Senegal on March 10-11, 2007. This will be our 12th conference and our first one in Africa. We have had an awesome response from organizations from all over Africa and we all seem to have the same problem of lack of resources to get to the conference. We are also a grassroots African organization and we do not have any money. The reason we have been able to do these conferences is because everyone that participates volunteers their labor and it is our labor that allows us to do the conferences. If we were depending on money we would not have been able to do any of the conferences that have been done. The theme of this conference is the importance of self-reliance and if Africa is going to be self-reliant then it is our hard work and determination that we must depend on to get everything done. We would love to have at least one representative from each African country to participate in the conference so if we do not have enough resources for everyone who wants to come, we ask that in each country you pick one person to represent you and everyone help that person to get to the conference. We believe this is the best way to proceed. Registration is at the door and the conference is free. We are calling for African Women and Youth conferences to be organized everywhere. We are not rich people so we must think in terms of how we can use our labor and determination to organize these conferences where we live and not let money be the reason that we do not organize these conferences and build African Women and Youth Movements. This is the only way that we are going to liberate and unify Africa.



With an undying love for mother Africa,



Rwanda Saleem

African Women's Charity Organization

Monitoring Health Equity in the MDGs: A Practical
Guide
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Cross-posted from ruglucia@...

By: "Nancy Krieger"

Millennium Development Goals

Monitoring Health Equity in the MDGs: A Practical
Guide

Meg Wirth, Enrique Delamonica, Emma Sacks, Deborah
Balk, Adam
Storeygard, Alberto Minujin

Center for International Earth Science Information
Network (CIESIN). A division of the Earth Institute at
Columbia University, and UNICEF.2006. Available online
as PDF file [70p.] at:
http://www.ciesin.columbia.edu/povmap/downloads/data/ana

lysis/Health_equity_Guid
elines.pdf

"....The original purpose of this analysis was to show
how to monitor the maternal and child health MDGs in
an equity-sensitive manner. Using
data from broad-scale, international household level
surveys-the Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) and
Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys
(MICS)-that analysis (which examined six countries
using 20 health indicators and six social strata to
ground recommendations in current data
demonstrated that in order to understand and promote
equity, it is necessary and feasible to establish a
baseline using a variety of indicators
and stratifiers, even in very low-income, data-poor
countries.

This Practical Guide builds on the previous work and
addresses a wider audience, providing specific
technical advice on how to undertake a
simple equity analysis using population-based
surveys....."

--
Claudio Schuftan
mailto:claudio@...