The Wasting Advocacy Coalition is a civil society-led, multi-stakeholder global advocacy coalition that aims to ensure that each child vulnerable to wasting has access to prevention and treatment.

“El recetario mágico” incluye saberes ancestrales latinoamericanos: comidas y postres típicos, remedios para el dolor, recetas para el autocuidado, consejos y palabras de aliento. La metodología fue situada, participativa y experiencial, todo el proceso creativo fue desarrollado a partir de las ideas y propuestas de las/les participantes y fue adaptado al contexto específico de Ciudad Juárez. Cada sesión del taller favoreció la escucha, la centralidad de las voces y experiencias de las mujeres y comunidad de la diversidad sexual.

Meet newborn Baby Bello, his parents—and the IRC midwife who delivered him.

With the support of the David & Lucile Packard Foundation, the IRC piloted a new approach to increase access to sexual and reproductive health (SRH) care for adolescents in Goma, DRC. This report highlights the strategy developed to address foundational facility and community-level barriers that prevent adolescents from accessing and receiving quality SRH services. 

Testing intervention packages to improve adolescents’ access to and use of sexual and reproductive health services in emergencies

The CRC came into existence in 1989. Despite the global support for this convention to be ratified, children’s’ protection and other rights are far from a reality for millions of children around the world.

Luis met his wife Ana forty years ago through mutual friends. They quickly fell in love and started a family. Their happy family was soon divided when the effects of the civil war and devastating earthquakes crippled the economy in El Salvador, leading Luis to being laid off from his job and unable to find work. No longer able to provide for his family, he decided to make the long and dangerous journey to the U.S in search of work. 17 years later, his wife and daughter were finally able to join him.