5 Major Activities have been held upto date. Some of the issues covered in the Five Major Activities include:
- Development of TORs
- Sharing of progress of Focal Groups
- Reproductive Health and Rights
- Gender and Reproductive Health
- Theatre for Development
- Male involvement in RH
- Abortion
- MIS for PRHN
- RH and the Millennium Agenda
- Advocacy
- HIV/AIDs
- Conflict Resolution
Note: detailed reports of all the Major Activities held upto date are available on request to the Secretariat
National Working Group Meeting:
National Working Group comprises of Focal persons plus another person, from each Focal Group. It is the decision making body of the network. Four business meetings of the National Working Group are held in a year. Two of these activities are held with the Major Activity and two meetings in between the Major Activity.
Note: detailed reports of all the NWG meetings held upto date are available on request to the Secretariat
Capacity Building Initiatives for members
- Advocacy Workshop: A two-day advocacy workshop was organized back to back with the Third Major Activity of PRHN. The workshop focused on understanding the meaning of advocacy. It also provided a perspective of advocacy in Health and non-Health sector in Pakistan.
- Exchange Visit: Two PRHN members were sent to a Policy and Media Advocacy Workshop cum exposure visit to Manilla, Phillipines.
- Round Table session on Advocacy and Policy: Continuing the efforts of understanding advocacy, a series of four round table sessions were held with the Karachi Focal Group on Understanding Advocacy and Policy.
- Seminar on Rights Based Approach to Reproductive Health: Aahung in collaboration with Shirkat Gah organized a one-day seminar for the Karachi Focal Group members. The seminar discussed the various components a rights based approach to reproductive health entails, the challenges that programmes face in implementing the approach and proposed strategies for overcoming some of the challenges.
- Benchmarks of Fairness in Health Care: department of the CHS-AKU organized a two-day workshop for the Karachi Focal Group members. The aim of the workshop was to familiarize the participants with the concept of fairness in health, and to introduce the Benchmarks as a tool for analyzing the health care system or a policy.
- Advocacy Workshop:A one-day workshop organized by Aahung was held for the Karachi Focal Group members. The purpose of the workshop was to do strategic planning for the advocacy work in the Reproductive Health sector of Pakistan and to define advocacy goals and objectives for the PRHN Karachi Focal Group.
Note: detailed reports of all the undertaken Capacity Building Initiatives are available on request to the Secretariat
Yahoo Group:
All PRHN members are subscribed to the yahoo group which is used as a mode of regular correspondence and information sharing among the members. |