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Office of Population and Reproductive Health (PRH): PEC
Inform Decision-Makers to Act (IDEA) - ASPEN
Agreement Type:
Cooperative Agreement
Agreement Number:
OAA-A-10-00062
Project Number:
936-3109.04
Duration:
09/10 - 09/15
Geographic Scope:
Worldwide
COR/AOR:
Carmen Tull
Telephone:
(202) 712 - 4854
Fax:
(202) 216-3046
Email:
ctull@usaid.gov
TA:
Nonie Hamilton
Telephone:
(202) 712-5132
Email:
nhamilton@usaid.gov
Activity Director:
Margaret Clark
Telephone:
(202) 736-1081
Fax:
(202) 293-0525
Email:
peggy.clark
@aspeninst.org
Purpose
Recognizing the fundamental role of population and health to sustain
development and the critical need for new, influential spokespersons from
diverse sectors to educate various audiences about reproductive health
and development, the IDEA-Aspen project will mobilize and equip select
high-level policymakers to serve as champions, expand dialogues through
new cross-sectoral global forums, and collaborate with partners to increase
knowledge, policy action, and resources for reproductive health.
Services Provided
The IDEA-Aspen project uses the following approach:
• Use high-level strategic access to national and global leaders to dramatically
amplify new messages about the centrality of reproductive
health to development;
• Utilize select policymakers as champions and standard setters for their
peers;
• Link reproductive health more centrally to broader development goals
including the environment, security, health, and economic development;
• Engage new influential audiences and establish ongoing linkages with
diverse non-health sectors;
• Emphasize the power of personal narrative through the voices of influential
policy spokespeople from developing and developed nations.
Aspen engages these high-level policymakers primarily through three
forums - the Population, Health and Development Track at the annual Aspen
Ideas Festival; the Aspen Population and Health Roundtable Series in
Washington, DC; and the Population Policy Dialogue Series in collaboration
with the WHO in Geneva at the time of the World Health Assembly.
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Means of Access
Core