Programme International Platform Meeting 6-7 October

Tuesday 6 Oct 2009
09:00	Welcome in Royal Tropical Institute in Amsterdam
09:30 – 12:30	Plenary session: Opening of and welcome to the UAFC platform. Advocacy statements by female condom champions as the Dutch Minister for Development Mr. Koenders, the Director of Oxfam Novib Farah Karimi and the Nigerian bishop Jolly Oyekpen.
12:30 – 13:30	Lunch
13:30 – 15:00	Working group sessions on: 1. Ugandan case-study 2. Cameroon case-study on development of a large-scale female condom programme (in French)
15:30 – 17:00	Working group sessions on: 3. Pleasure perspective and female condom programming 4. More variety of female condoms: why and how?
17:00 - 17:30	Plenary reflections on working group sessions
19:00	Universal Access to Female Condom Joint Diner
Wednesday 7 Oct 2009
09:00	Welcome in Royal Tropical Institute in Amsterdam
09:30 – 11:00	Working group sessions on: 5. Pleasure perspective and female condom programming 6. More variety of female condoms: why and how?
11:30 – 13:00	Working group sessions on: 7. The successes of the American advocacy campaign on female condoms 8. Female Condoms Advocacy Training
13:00 – 14:00	Lunch
14:00 – 16:00	Plenary session: International Campaign on Female Condoms, one joint advocacy statement
16:00 – 17:00	Conclusions and closure

Knowledge Base

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UAFC lobby paper

UAFC has developed a profound advocacy strategy in order to achieve acces to female condoms for all. For background on this strategy and to strengthen your own lobby activities you have access to this paper.

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Breaking down the barriers!

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Ilze Smit of UAFC Joint Programme presented the session Female Condom Programming and Advocacy: Braking down the Barriers! at the NGO Forum ICPD+15.

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Trainings in Rwanda

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"In our daily work in HIV prevention and even in our sexual and reproductive life sessions with potential users, in trainings and advocay, we talk about female condoms as you can see in these photos. I'm pushing to include FC in our major advocay themes. It recently has been included in the Rwanda National NGO forum on AIDS for the four year strategic plan (2009/2012)," says Fortunée Twiyubahe from ACORD/Oxfam International in Rwanda.

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ACMS Website

In Cameroon the Association Camerounaise pour le Marketing (ACMS) works on making Female Condoms available to a large usersgroup. ACMS has its own website, with which it reaches especially young people.

Interview with Victoria Archibong, SFH

"I believe the introduction of the male condoms was relatively easier. This could be because it was easier to target men as the “dominant” party in relationships and the ones who will wear the condoms. There was also a lot of support from donors and IPs. The female condom is regarded more as a “woman thing”. Some men may feel threatened as the female condom will empower women in demonstrating their sexual and reproductive health rights. For Female condom programming, programmers have to be more creative and strategic."

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