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On our September Webinar, we celebrated the passage of many of our global poverty initiatives – Global Malnutrition Prevention and Treatment Act, the READ Act, and the replenishment of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB, and Malaria. Your advocacy matters! This month we are moving it forward to End TB Now!
Nutrition is a human right! We are near the finish line on the Global Malnutrition Prevention and Treatment Act, however, there is still more work to do to bring an end to global malnutrition. At our September webinar, guest speaker Dorothy Monza from our RESULTS Global Policy team presented a deep dive on the effects of stunting and wasting, the current context of malnutrition amidst various global crises, and the ways we must advocate from an equity lens.
As we wind down from summer vacation and children head back to school, we must continue to advocate for equitable access to basic education. Especially for girls! The August Together Women Rise Advocacy Chapter webinar introduced action on the READ Act (Reinforcing Education Accountability in Development) – S. 3938. You can find the recording and the slides here.
Everyone deserves a quality education, no matter where they live or their circumstances! At our Global Allies Program August webinar, we heard from Vanessa Dickey at Peace Corps Virtual Service and kicked off our global education advocacy campaign, focusing our efforts on the READ (Reinforcing Education Accountability in Development) Act reauthorization (S.3938).
The July Together Women Rise Advocacy Chapter webinar was a celebration of Advocacy Month, as well as progress on S. 2956, The Global Malnutrition and Prevention Act, which has now passed the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. You can find the recording and the slides here.
On our June Together Women Rise Advocacy Chapter webinar, we continued to take action on S. 2956, The Global Malnutrition and Prevention Act, you can watch the recording here as well as view the slides here.
Senator Wicker (R- MS) : “Malnutrition is one of the world’s greatest burdens on public health. It affects millions of people per year, especially pregnant women and children under five.”
Join us in taking action to end malnutrition – contact your Senators to sponsor S. 2956, the Global Malnutrition Prevention and Treatment Act
The May Together Women Rise Advocacy webinar was informative and inspiring, as it featured guest speaker Anne Kraemer Diaz of Maya Health Alliance (part of El Colectivo) tuning in from Guatemala. Anne spoke passionately about the critical need for nutrition and the effects of malnutrition. You can find the recording and the slides here.
As we celebrate the passing of H.R. 4893 in the House, our action for May and June is to secure Senate co-sponsors for S. 2956, The Global Malnutrition and Prevention Act. This bipartisan legislation better positions USAID, our country’s main international development agency, to support countries to save more lives.
Find additional resources to take critical action with our Senators on FY23 appropriations for Maternal and Child Health (MCH) and Nutrition, the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB, and Malaria, and Tuberculosis.
Together Women Rise advocates took critical action on FY23 appropriations during the April 2022 webinar. Understanding the appropriations process in order to make specific requests of your members of Congress is how we finance the programs supporting women and girls, which will bring us closer to achieving gender equity. Find the slides here, and a link to the recording.
Find resources to take critical action on FY23 appropriations for Maternal and Child Health (MCH) and Nutrition, the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB, and Malaria, and Tuberculosis.
Together Women Rise advocates continued to take action on the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB, and Malaria, sent thank you letters to their representatives for signing the bipartisan Lee/McCaul Global Fund sign-on letter to the Administration, and wrote and submitted letters to the editor. Find the slides here, and a link to the recording.
Join us in keeping up the momentum to a bold replenishment of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB, and Malaria.
Together Women Rise advocates learned about the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB, and Malaria and “Hit Send” on request for their representatives to sign onto the bipartisan Lee/McCaul Global Fund sign-on letter to the Administration. Find the recording here and the slides here.
Join us in taking urgent action on a bold replenishment of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB, and Malaria.
We invited members of Together Women Rise and others to learn more about the partnership with RESULTS and the huge opportunity to make a difference through advocacy. Here is the webinar recording. Here is where you can sign up to join the Together Women Rise Advocacy Group with RESULTS.
The World Health Organization called climate change “the single biggest health threat facing humanity,” warning that its effects could be more catastrophic and enduring than the coronavirus pandemic.”
Together Women Rise Advocacy Chapter’s kick-off webinar for 2022 highlighted more ways to take action for vaccine equity. Review the recording and slides for tips on how to craft a powerful letter to the editor (LTE).
Learn ways to build and deepen relationships with your members of Congress to take action on the Global Malnutrition Prevention and Treatment Act (H.R. 4693 /S. 2956).
Find resources to take action on global malnutrition shared at our final webinar of 2021.
Did you miss our November webinar? Don’t fret! Find the recording and resources to take action on global malnutrition here.
Our failure to ensure COVID-19 vaccines are available those in low-income countries is an embarrassment. It has also heightened the risk of dangerous variants emerging as COVID-19 spreads, unchecked, in unvaccinated parts of the world. It’s outrageous, so we must let congressional leaders and the Administration hear our outrage. Check out the recording and slides (pdf version) from our webinar and click the title above for more details on actions you can take to show your outrage.
Find resources and learn more on taking action with members of Congress on global vaccine equity.
We celebrated COVID relief successes and looked at the 2021 campaigns on global education and nutrition. We learned about the appropriations process and tools available to us. We took action together online and prepared for taking deeper action with congressional staff.
The February DFW/RESULTS webinars were fun. We learned: 1) why meetings with Congress are our most important advocacy tactic, 2) how to schedule a congressional meeting, 3) what makes a good meeting. Then we planned a meeting and did a live practice. It was great!
We need to gear up to influence our members of Congress during the first 100 days of the new Congress. Reaching them now will set the stage for progress over the next two years of the 117th Congress. We need to put global COVID relief, girls education, and maternal & child health and nutrition on their agendas.
We’ve had an incredible first year of the DFW/RESULTS partnership. We celebrated a bit and then looked to 2021 Campaigns with RESULTS VP for Policy and Advocacy, John Fawcett, as a guest speaker. We ended by talking about a final action we can take this year to keep pressure on for a global response to the pandemic.
We are advocating for development assistance in a COVID relief bill because COVID is hurting women and girls. Click above for the webinar recording, slides, and action you can take now.
Advocating for a COVID-19 response bill that includes a global response is the best thing we can be doing for women, girls, and children right now. We can also be engaging candidates. Find our webinar recording, slides, actions, and a leave behind for candidates.
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