SAFE ENGAGE Policy Communications Resources
SAFE ENGAGE project supports constructive, data-driven policy dialogue, works with partners to co-create compelling, evidence-based materials, and offers training and technical support.
SAFE ENGAGE project supports constructive, data-driven policy dialogue, works with partners to co-create compelling, evidence-based materials, and offers training and technical support.
The SAFE ENGAGE project partnered with Coalition de Lutte Contre les Grossesses Non Désirées to provide fact sheets they can use to inform judges, police chiefs, doctors, associations of medical professionals, and other decisionmakers of the 2018 changes governing legality of abortion in the DRC.
A strong policy communication strategy is an important part of the process for successful policy change to encourage safe abortion.
Reducing deaths and injuries related to unsafe abortion requires a policy environment that supports equitable access to sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR)—including contraception, safe abortion, and postabortion care—for all people.
Abortion is an issue with religious, moral, cultural, and political dimensions. It is also a public
health concern.
Thousands of Nigerian women die needlessly each year. Their lives can be saved with equal access to safe abortion.
Open and fact-based public dialogue is essential for lifesaving access to reproductive health care options for women and girls, including safe abortion and post-abortion care.
Postabortion care can save women’s lives. In Nigeria, most women can’t access that care.
By Julia Greene
Research translation is the process that transforms scientific research findings into a form that is relevant to practitioners or other audiences.