Solutions Panorama

Solutions Panorama
Introduction
Creating and promoting solutions to improve the lives of girls and women has always been at
the heart of Women Deliver. The organization took this commitment one step further in 2016 by
shaping the entire Women Deliver 2016 Conference around sharing, discussing, and debating
solutions to make the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) matter most for girls and women. As
the largest meeting in the past decade to focus on girls’ and women’s health, rights, and wellbeing,
the conference drew 5,759 attendees from 169 countries — including influencers, advocates, and
leaders from civil society, governments, the United Nations, the private sector, and academia. It
served as a fueling station, a source for new ideas, and a space to deliberate SDG implementation
so that it truly advances the health, rights, and wellbeing of girls and women.
The rich diversity of perspective and expertise at the global Women Deliver 2016 Conference set
the stage for contagious idea sharing. Women Deliver has captured one hundred of these ideas
and packaged them in this Solutions Panorama — a resource for conference participants and
the broader development community to reference in their own work. Covering the programs
and projects of diverse organizations and governments, the Solutions Panorama transforms the
conference from a moment in time to an enduring source of inspiration.
Within the Solutions Panorama there are pragmatic programs, clever advocacy strategies, and
innovative products. It highlights not only projects with long, documented records of success, but
also promising ideas that are gaining traction. All of the solutions are arranged around twelve
high-yielding investment areas which shaped the Women Deliver Conference and are central to
Deliver for Good — a global campaign that applies a gender lens to the SDGs to fuel concrete action
for girls and women. (Learn more on page 136.)
The Solutions Panorama does not end with this document. These ideas will remain accessible via
an interactive database on the Women Deliver website, allowing visitors to browse according to
solution type, issue area, and region. As with the conference, we hope that the solutions presented
here will continue to inspire and spur action for girls and women around the world.
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