Women Deliver 2013, Malaysia

 Women Deliver is a global advocacy organization bringing together voices from around the world to call for action to improve the health and well-being of girls and women.

Our groundbreaking global conferences in 2007 and 2010 put a spotlight on maternal and reproductive health, drawing thousands of attendees from the public and private sectors.

Our 2013 conference will be in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, and will be the largest global conference on girls’ and women’s health and empowerment of the decade.

Women Deliver 2013’s program will feature more than 100 sessions, including high-level plenaries, concurrent panels, special lunch dialogues with global leaders, and side and evening events. We will post program details as they become available.

Our program tracks will include subjects that impact the lives of girls and women, ranging from family planning to human rights to girls' education and empowerment. Each of these tracks will feature proven, life-saving solutions and strategies to galvanize action and accelerate progress towards reaching MDG5.   

All sessions will relate to the overarching themes of Investing in Girls and Women; Reducing Unmet Need; and Looking to 2015 and Beyond.

For more information visit Women Deliver.

• Investing in Girls and Women
  When investments are made in the health, education, empowerment, and rights of girls and women, there are significant benefits for communities and nations. Healthy girls are more likely to attend school, to have safe pregnancies and deliveries, and to grow up to have healthy, educated children. They are also powerful drivers of development, contributing up to one-third of global GDP. Simply put, when girls and women survive, families, communities and countries thrive. 
• Reducing Unmet Need to Contraception
   Millennium Development Goal 5 calls for universal access to reproductive health to allow women to plan the number and spacing of their pregnancies. Currently, research shows that worldwide 222 million women still have an ‘unmet need’ for modern contraception. Women Deliver 2013 will explore how the global community can continue to address and decrease this ‘unmet need’ to meet MDG5, and to ensure that women around the world have safe, healthy and wanted pregnancies.
• Looking to 2015 and Beyond
  Of all the MDGs, MDG5 is the furthest behind. As the 2015 deadline of these goals looms closer, it is critical to take stock of why MDG5 was not reached. The time is now to ensure that the new development framework highlights the health and well-being of girls and women as a top development priority, and lays out a clear, measureable roadmap to success.