Programme
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DAY ONE: TECHNICAL MEETING Monday 29th June
| 8:30-9:30 | Opening Session |
| 9:30-11:00 | Session 1: Human Resources for Millennium Development Goal Five: Setting the Context |
| 11:00-11:20 | TEA/COFFEE BREAK |
| 11:20-13:00 | Session 2: Paradigm Shift: Rethinking Human Resources for Maternal Survival |
| 13:00-14:30 | LUNCH |
| 14:30-16:00 | Session 3: African Innovations to Increase Access to Emergency Obstetric Care: The Non-Physician Clinician Experience |
| 16:00-16:30 | TEA/COFFEE BREAK |
| 16:30-17:15 | Open Forum: The Challenge of Innovation - Thoughts from the Audience |
| 18:30-20:30 | RECEPTION: Launch of Monitoring Emergency Obstetric Care: A Handbook |
DAY TWO: TECHNICAL MEETING Tuesday 30th June
| 8:30-9:30 | Session 4: Training Non-Physician Clinicians: What Have We Learned? |
| 9:30-11:15 | Session 5: Training Non-Physician Clinicians: What is Required? |
| 11:15-11:30 | TEA/COFFEE BREAK |
| 11:30-12:30 | Session 6: Human Resources for Maternal Survival: Glimpses of the Global Experience |
| 12:30-13:30 | Session 7: Building the Enabling Environment: What is Required? |
| 13:30-14:45 | LUNCH |
| 14:45-17:00 | Session 8: Understanding the Enabling Environment in "Lanretam": Parallel Sessions |
DAY THREE: TECHNICAL MEETING Wednesday 1st July
| 8:30-12:15 | Session 9: Implementing and Supporting Country-Led Approaches |
| 12:15-13:30 | LUNCH |
| 13:30-15:15 | Session 10: Enhancing Maternal and Newborn Survival: Mobilizing Technical, Financial and Political Support for Action |
| 15:15-15:30 | Summary and Closure of Technical Meeting |
| 19:00-21:00 | Cultural Evening |
Thursday 2nd July: MINISTERIAL CONFERENCE
| 9:00-9:20 |
Welcome |
| 9:20-9:30 |
Locating the Call to Action within regional and international initiatives (video) |
| 9:30-9:50 | Keynote speaker: Gender, Equity and Human Rights: The Challenge of Human Resources for Maternal Survival |
| 9:50-10:05 |
Mobilising Resources for Action: Perspectives from Development Partners |
| 10:05-10:20 | Human Resources for Maternal Survival: Task Shifting to Non-Physician - Synthesis of the technical meeting |
| 10:20-12:00 | Response and discussion from High Level Officials – Minister and Deputy Ministers of Health. Plenary Discussion |
| 12:00-14:00 | LUNCH |
| 14:00-15:00 | Task Shifting for Maternal and Newborn Survival: A Call to Action Plenary discussion and adoption of the Call to Action |
| 15:00-15:30 | Thanks and Closing Statement |