Knowledge Hub
To support reproductive health advocates across the globe, Global Doctors for Choice (GDC) has gathered resources related to advocacy with the aim of influencing policies, guidelines, and laws to improve access to care.
Please note that this is not a comprehensive list and does not necessarily reflect GDC’s position. We will continue to gather and add resources, and invite you to contact us to suggest resources.
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Evidence to End Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting: Research to Help Girls and Women Thrive
Date:
2015
Topics:
SRH Education Resource Types: Websites
This research consortium by Population Council "generates quality evidence to accelerate abandonment of female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C) within one generation." The website provides videos and resources of evidence developed by the consortium to help shape investments, policies, programs, and advocacy.
Reasons to not Limit the Gestational Age for Abortion: A Literature Review
Topics:
SRH Education Resource Types: GDC Resources
This literature review presents data on abortion on a global, regional, and national level; reasons for why abortion should take place after the first trimester, recommended techniques for abortion after
Abortion Law Decisions
Date:
2018
Topics:
Advocacy Case Studies Resource Types: Websites
This Table of Cases by the University of Toronto presents links to decisions of court cases related to abortion laws.
Medical Society Engagement in Contentious Policy Reform: the Ethiopian Society for Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ESOG) and Ethiopia’s 2005 Reform of its Penal Code on Abortion
Date:
May 2018
Topics:
Advocacy Case Studies, SRH Education Resource Types: Publications
This case study explores how the Ethiopian Society of Obstetricians & Gynecologists (ESOG) actively supported reform of national law on abortion. Its lessons learned can inform efforts to encourage medical society participation in policy reform and political advocacy to improve women's health throughout sub-Saharan Africa.
Legal Knowledge as a Tool for Social Change: La Mesa por la Vida y la Salud de las Mujeres as an Expert on Columbia Abortion Law
Date:
June 2017
Topics:
Advocacy Case Studies Resource Types: GDC Resources
This case study of La Mesa por la Vida y la Salud de las Mujeres, after the liberalization of Columbia's abortion law, discusses how "law can be shaped not just by public officials and universities, but also by social actors engaged in the creation and diffusion of legal knowledge."
Handbook for Budget Analysis and Tracking in Advocacy Projects
Date:
2011
Topics:
Advocacy Tools Resource Types: Trainings
"This manual helps facilitate the process of incorporating simple budget analysis and tracking elements in advocacy planning. It offers a way to determine the steps needed to identify and monitor specific areas of expenditure that contribute to achieving the political change."
Women Help Women
Topics:
Trusted Reproductive Health Organizations Resource Types: Websites
"Women Help Women is an international group of activists, trained counselors and non-profit organizations and foundations." They work to make access to reproductive health services easier and rooted in choice, information more reliable and based on evidence, and activism more collaborative and powerful.
Abortion in Cases of Rape
Date:
2012
Topics:
Health Exception Resource Types: GDC Resources
This document is meant to serve as a discussion and practice guide so that health professionals, those in law and justice, public administrators better understand their responsibilities, and move forward
Building a Consensus: Health Exception in Latin America
Topics:
Health Exception Resource Types: GDC Resources
This document gathers the experience of how the regional consensus on the health exception clause in abortion was constructed. The analysis seeks to understand this experience around the decisions, both
How to Report on Abortion
Date:
2017
Topics:
Abortion Stigma Info & Mitigation, Communicating about SRHR Resource Types: Publications
This guide for journalists, editors, and media outlets is produced by the International Campaign for Women's Right to Safe Abortion. It "has been written for those working in the media to encourage accurate reporting of the facts about abortion, and honest portrayals of abortion as part of real people's lives and relationships."
