Breaking down barriers for improved health of young generations: A multisectoral approach Side event at the 136th IPU Assembly Sunday 2 April 2017 1.30 – 3.00 p.m. Windy Town room, first floor, Bangabandhu International Convention Centre (BICC) A light lunch will be served

Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals will in large part depend on countries’ ability to adequately invest in the health of the largest adolescent cohort the world has ever seen. The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development set ambitious targets for improved health and wellbeing as part of a comprehensive approach to eradicating poverty and stimulating development. The Every Woman Every Child (EWEC) Global Strategy for Women’s, Children’s and Adolescents’ Health (Global Strategy), launched by the UN Secretary‐General in September 2015, provides a roadmap for the achievement of the SDG targets related to women’s, children’s’ and adolescents’ health. The IPU has made a commitment to support the Global Strategy, pledging to engage the global parliamentary community in ensuring national accountability for results and for allocating resources for women’s, children’s and adolescents’ health from domestic sources.

Improving health outcomes is dependent on many factors that fall outside of the health sector; research shows that about half of the gains in the health sector result from investments in other sectors. The EWEC Global Strategy, in line with this evidence, promotes an approach to ensuring adolescent health and well‐being that includes multisectoral approaches and innovative partnerships that account for social determinants and health‐enhancing sectors. While the evidence demonstrates that multisectoral policies and interventions are essential to achieving better health and wellbeing for adolescents, siloed structures, programmes and financing in most countries, and globally, often render this difficult.

This side event will identify concrete measures that parliaments can take to overcome the barriers to coordinated design and implementation of policies that facilitate multi‐stakeholder and multi‐ sectoral action for improved adolescent health outcomes.

Participants will be invited to discuss the following key questions:

• What can parliaments do to help develop and implement policies and interventions across sectors? How can parliamentarians use their government’s commitment to implement the Global Strategy to advance progress on addressing adolescents’ needs?

• Which critical partners should parliaments engage with to implement these actions?

• How can parliamentarians advocate the determinants of adolescent health? What good parliamentary practices exist? What personal experiences can parliamentarians share?

Agenda

1.30‐1.35 Welcome, Helga Fogstad, Executive Director, PMNCH

1.35‐1.45 Opening remarks, Martin Chungong, IPU Secretary General

1.45‐2.55 Panel discussion • Dr. Ian Askew, Director, Department of Reproductive Health and Research, WHO ‐ Improving adolescent health: It Takes a Village • Ms. , Member of Parliament, ‐ Country example on comprehensive national plan • Mr. Faustine Ndugulile, Member of Parliament, Tanzania ‐ Country example on early marriage • Ms. Gerda Verburg, Coordinator, Scaling Up Nutrition (SUN) Movement, Nutrition policies for improved adolescent health

2.55‐3.00 Wrap up Helga to wrap up – include reference to the adolescent health debate and to the addendum

Biographies

Martin Chungong, Secretary General, IPU A Cameroonian national, Martin Chungong made double history by becoming the first‐ever African and the first non‐European to be elected as IPU Secretary General in the Organization’s 126‐year history. With more than three decades of experience and knowledge of parliaments at national and international level, Mr Chungong has dedicated his professional life to promoting and building democracy world‐wide. Following a 14‐year career span with the Cameroonian Parliament, Mr Chungong has already spent more than 20 distinguished years at IPU. Prior to being elected as the eighth IPU Secretary General, he was the Organization’s Deputy Secretary General and Director of Programmes. Through his work on developing programmes to help parliaments become more transparent, accountable, representative and effective democratic institutions, he has become a leader in his field. Since 2012, Mr Chungong has made a push to strengthen parliamentary engagement on sustainable development and accountability through his role as Parliamentary Representative on the Steering Committee of the Global Partnership for Effective Development Cooperation. He is also leading IPU’s work to dramatically reduce maternal and child mortality rates through effective legislation and its implementation as well as ensuring governments’ accountability to international commitments in this area.

Ian Askew, Director, Department of Reproductive Health and Research including UNDP‐UNFPA‐ UNICEF‐WHO‐World Bank Special Programme of Research, Development and Research Training in Human Reproduction Ian Askew joined the Department of Reproductive Health and Research in January 2016 from the Population Council where he worked as Director of Reproductive Health Services and Research in Nairobi, Kenya. After joining the Population Council in 1990 as an associate in Senegal, he went on to become the Country Director for the Population Council office in Kenya in 2002 and the acting Country Director for Senegal between 2009 and 2012. During this time, Ian was closely involved in the Frontiers in Reproductive Health Operations Research Program (FRONTIERS) where he served as Associate Director from 1999 to 2006 and then as Director from 2006‐2008. Ian Askew has managed an international staff of over 70 professionals in 15 offices, primarily in developing countries, who undertake research, evaluation, technical assistance and utilization activities that increase access to sexual and reproductive health services for marginalized populations, reduce maternal mortality and morbidity, ensure that new technologies and procedures are responsive to people’s needs, and mobilize public‐private partnerships to enhance the reach and efficiency of health systems. Before joining the Population Council, Ian Askew was the Deputy Director of the Institute of Population Studies at the University of Exeter in the United Kingdom, where he led the Institute’s capacity‐ building programme in applied population research and research on community participation. He has served on a number of technical advisory groups, steering committees, and review boards including expert group meetings of the World Health Organization on sexual and reproductive health and rights topics; he is currently a member of HRP’s Scientific and Technical Advisory Group.

Faustine Ndugulile, Member of Parliament, Tanzania Faustine Ndugulile is ViceChairman of the Parliamentary Social Services committee. He received his Doctor of Medicine degree from the University of Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania in 1997, a Master of

Medicine in Microbiology and Immunology in 2001 from the same university, and a Master of Public Health degree from the University of Western Cape, South Africa in 2010. Between 2004 and 2006, Dr. Ndugulile was the Head of Diagnostic Services of Tanzania’s Ministry of Health, where he was instrumental in building the capacity of laboratory services to support the roll out of the HIV/AIDS Care and Treatment programme. In addition, as part of the HIV/AIDS prevention strategy, Dr. Ndugulile was tasked with transforming the blood transfusion service from hospital‐based service to a centrally coordinated system that is reliant on voluntary blood donors. Between July 2007 and September 2010, Dr. Ndugulile was contracted by the Centers for Diseases Control (CDC) to provide technical assistance to the South African Field Epidemiology and Laboratory Training Programme, aimed at building the capacity of South Africa in field epidemiology and diseases surveillance. Dr. Ndugulile has actively been involved in the HIV/AIDS field since 1993. He is a member of the Governing Council of the International Aids Society (IAS), a position he has held since 2008. In addition, he is a member of the American Society of Microbiologists (ASM)

Nkandu Luo, Member of Parliament, Zambia Nkandu Phoebe Luo (born 21 December 1951) is a Zambian physician and politician who is currently Minister of Higher Education. She is a microbiologist who previously served as head of Pathology and Microbiology at the University Teaching Hospital in Lusaka and has carried out extensive research into HIV/AIDS. Luo worked at Saint Mary's Hospital in London. She became a professor in microbiology and immunology at the in 1993 and worked as Head of Pathology and Microbiology at the University Teaching Hospital, Lusaka, Zambia. She has published numerous journal articles on HIV/AIDS. Luo was elected to parliament representing the Movement for Multi‐ Party Democracy in the constituency in 1996. She served as Deputy Minister of Health from 1997 to 1999 and Health Minister in 1999, however she clashed with both donors and health workers and was moved from the post in November 1999 and replaced by David Mpamba. She was Minister of Transport and Communications from 1999 to 2001 before losing her seat in the 2001 election. Luo created a network of thirty national AIDS advocacy groups and founded non‐profit organisation Tasintha, which seeks to free Zambia from commercial sex‐work and HIV/AIDS. She established the National AIDS Control program, the National Blood Transfusion Service and the Prevention of Mother to Child transmission of HIV/AIDS program. Luo was elected as the representative for constituency in 2011. She was appointed as Minister of Local Government and Housing by , serving from 2011 to 2014, and then became Minister of Chiefs and Traditional Affairs from 2014 to 2015. Luo was sworn in as Minister of Gender by in February 2015. In March 2016, Luo was adopted as President of the Women Parliamentary caucus at the 134th Inter Parliamentary Union conference in Lusaka. In September 2016, she became Zambia's Higher Education Minister.

Gerda Verburg, Coordinator of the Scaling Up Nutrition (SUN) Movement. As the Coordinator of SUN, Gerda Verburg works with 56 country governments that lead the SUN movement, united with UN agencies, civil society, business and donors, in a common mission to defeat malnutrition in all its forms. Since 2011, Ms. Verburg has served as Permanent Representative of the Kingdom of the Netherlands to the UN Organizations for Food and Agriculture in Rome (FAO, WFP and IFAD) and in 2014 she was appointed Chair of the Global Agenda Council for Food and Nutrition Security of the World Economic Forum (WEF). From 2013 until 2015, Ms. Verburg served as Chair of the UN Committee on World Food Security (CFS), a multi‐stakeholder committee where

governments, civil society, private sector, research institutions and others addressed food and nutrition issues. From 2007‐2011, Ms. Verburg served as speaker in the Dutch House of Representatives on economics, energy and innovation and as Minister of Agriculture, Nature and Food Quality. In 2008 she was elected Chair of the UN Commission on Sustainable Development.