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The U.S.' Grades on Global Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights Policy Are In...
Bergen Cooper, CHANGE’s director of policy research, talks about the domains, methodology, and contextual scores of the SRHR index in an episode of rePROS Fight Back.
— Bergen Cooper The Center for Health and Gender Equity's Director of Policy Research“So for every policy or budget or let’s just call it an action, for every action that one of those actors takes within a year, we ask four questions of that action. We say, is this based in evidence? Is it situated within internationally recognized human rights norms? Is it responsive to need and is it gender transformative? So by asking those questions, we can look at say a program that’s intended to reach the general population.”
Nations must improve women’s health, SRHR to adhere to international human rights standards, reach UHC, opinion pieces say
Included in a collection of opinions regarding the involvement of nations in women’s health, Kaiser Family Foundation quotes CHANGE’s director of policy research, Bergen Cooper’s Newsweek assessment of SRHR human rights.
— Bergen Cooper The Center for Health and Gender Equity's Director of Policy Research“When it comes to protecting women’s human rights globally, along with sexual and reproductive rights, the U.S. government under President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence is not only failing to meet the nation’s commitments. It is actively and mercilessly cutting them back. That’s why commemorating International Human Rights Day on Tuesday is especially important.”
The Trump administration's grades for sexual and reproductive rights are in | Opinion
In an op-ed for Newsweek, Bergen Cooper, CHANGE’s director of policy research, reflects on the human rights injustice demonstrated by the 2018 SRHR Index scores on International Human Rights Day.
— Bergen Cooper The Center for Health and Gender Equity's Director of Policy Research“There is no better day than International Human Rights Day to recognize that sexual and reproductive health and rights are human rights. And together, with a lot of hard work, perseverance and holding our world leaders accountable—we can see them through for everyone.”
Reality Check
Bergen Cooper, director of policy research at CHANGE, discusses the importance of US global health assistance and how the SRHR Index holds policy and funding accountable with radio show Reality Check on the station WURD.
— Bergen Cooper The Center for Health and Gender Equity's Director of Policy Research“We have seen incredible gains in family planning, and in maternal and child health and in HIV and AIDS around the world because of [global health assistance] funding, but sometimes there are policies in place or there are budgets in place that actually harm the health and rights of people around the world.”
Newly released 2018 scorecard shows massive drops for USAID, White House, and State Department in meeting global commitments to sexual and reproductive health and rights
The article by Common Dreams explores SRHR Index methodology and cites Index findings that US global health assistance reneged on its commitments.
— Common Dreams“The methodology of the SRHR Index is rigorously designed to be sensitive to and reflective of both negative actions contributing to restrictions on sexual and reproductive health and rights in the U.S.’ global health assistance and positive actions contributing to their expansion”
The crisis is now: How you can make a difference in the fight for global health and rights
In preparation for CHANGE, director of policy research Bergen Cooper’s workshop presentation, the Woodhull Foundation writes about the SRHR Index’s role in informing evidence-based advocacy.
— The Woodhull Foundation“Let’s look ahead and move forward with collective action. We’ll highlight how CHANGE’s SRHR Index can help recommend evidence-‐based actions to the U.S. government to strengthen sexual and reproductive health and rights for all.”
The Sexual and Reproductive Health Rights Index
Photographer Ana Isabel published a visual narrative of CHANGE’s SRHR Index launch at the Ford Foundation for Social Justice.
New index grades U.S. government on sexual and reproductive health and rights issues
LGBTQ news outlets Q-Notes and Baltimore OUTloud cover the SRHR Index. Originally posted by Q-Notes and abridged by Baltimore OUTloud, both news sources publish a detailed score report from the Index.
— Q-Notes and Baltimore OUTloud“The U.S. government’s overall grade in 2016 was a B (85.1) and a C (76.7) in 2017. During the same years, the six federal government actors that the index measures had the following grades: (key: actor/domain), 2016/2017): White House, A- ( 92.2)/C- ( 72.6)…”
Trump administration's record on reproductive health criticized in study
WTVA, an NBC and ABC affiliate providing news coverage in Mississippi and Alabama, relays the Trump Administration’s failure according to the SRHR Index.
— Bergen Cooper The Center for Health and Gender Equity's Director of Policy Research“In order to capture the breadth of SRHR, we developed cross-cutting issues. So each internal policy and budget from those actors … we grade each internal policy to see: Is this evidence based? Is it based in rights? Is it gender transformative? And is it situated within internationally recognized human rights norms?” Bergen Cooper, the Center for Health and Gender Equity’s director of policy research.”
US gets a C on sexual and reproductive global health assistance, new index finds
Focusing on the potential impact of the SRHR Index, Devex news explores the Index’s global health assistance model.
— Devex News“The SRHR index is a roadmap for how global health assistance can best promote sexual and reproductive health and rights,” said Bergen Cooper, director of policy research at CHANGE. “We hope that this is a tool for advocates and for governments alike to engage and help make global health assistance the best that it can be.”
Trump administration's record on reproductive health criticized in study
Looking at the 2016 and 2017 SRHR Indices as a reflection of Trump’s first year in office, CNN notes a decline in White House SRHR grades.
— CNN“The index found that overall global health assistance on sexual and reproductive health and rights declined from 2016 to 2017 from a B to a C. All of the actors, with the exception of USAID, had a dip in grades. The most stark decline, according to the index, was from the White House, which went from an A- to a C-.”
CHANGE announces the inaugural, first-of-its-kind SRHR Index
In a press release, CHANGE introduces the SRHR Index with comparative Index scores for 2016 and 2017.
— CHANGE“The launch of the Index comes on the heels of reports of an aggressive campaign from the Trump administration to ban U.S. diplomats’ use of the terms ‘sexual and reproductive health,’
‘comprehensive sexuality education,’ and other gender-related terms that are necessary to advance sexual and reproductive health and rights in U.S. global health policy.”
Beyond the grade: Advancing sexual and reproductive health and rights in U.S. global health assistance
CHANGE president Serra Sippel explains the SRHR Index in an article for LinkedIn subscribers and expounds on the advocacy work made possible by the Index’s findings.
— Serra Sippel CHANGE President“The SRHR Index will be crucial in helping global health advocates — and particularly for those of us who advocate for women and girls’ SRHR — do this work. Without a tool to compare what’s being done with what can and should be done, we don’t have a starting point to hold our government responsible.”
New data tool to advance gender equality assess the U.S. government’s work on reproductive health and rights
In a radio interview for Broadcast News Resource, CHANGE president Serra Sippel and director of policy research, Bergen Cooper discuss the SRHR Index’s motives, objective, methodology, and intended impact.
— Serra Sippel and Bergen Cooper discuss CHANGE President, The Center for Health and Gender Equity's Director of Policy Research“Ultimately this is a tool for transparency and accountability with our government, and it’s about giving public access to this information about how the US government is spending its global health assistance on sexual and reproductive health.”