title: From Millennium Development Goals to post-2015 sustainable development: sexual and reproductive health and rights in an evolving aid environment.
abstract: Using research from country case studies, this paper offers insights into the range of institutional and structural changes in development assistance between 2005 and 2011, and their impact on the inclusion of a sexual and reproductive health and rights agenda in national planning environments. At a global level during this period, donors supported more integrative modalities of aid - sector wide approaches, poverty reduction strategy papers, direct budgetary support - with greater use of economic frameworks in decision-making. The Millennium Development Goals brought heightened attention to maternal mortality, but at the expense of a broader sexual and reproductive health and rights agenda. Advocacy at the national planning level was not well linked to programme implementation; health officials were disadvantaged in economic arguments, and lacked financial and budgetary controls to ensure a connection between advocacy and action. With increasing competency in higher level planning processes, health officials are now refocusing the post-2015 development goals. If sexual and reproductive health and rights is to claim engagement across all its multiple elements, advocates need to link them to the key themes of sustainable development: inequalities in gender, education, growth and population, but also to urbanisation, migration, women in employment and climate change.
authors: Associate Professor Global Health Systems, School of Population Health, University of Queensland, Herston, 4006,Brisbane, Australia. Electronic address: peter.hill@sph.uq.edu.au.
authors: Peter S
authors: PS
authors: Hill
authors: Dale
authors: D
authors: Huntington
authors: Rebecca
authors: R
authors: Dodd
authors: Michael
authors: M
authors: Buttsworth
mesh_terms: D003247:Conservation of Natural Resources; D005260:Female; D006040:Goals; D006285:Health Planning; D006291:Health Policy; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008429:Maternal Welfare; D009936:Organizational Innovation; D060728:Reproductive Health; D046269:Reproductive Rights; D012922:Social Change; D014933:Women's Rights
keywords: Lao PDR; Malawi; Millennium Development Goals; Senegal; Tajikistan; aid effectiveness; post-2015 development goals; sexual and reproductive health and rights