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Steering Committee

The Steering Committee currently consists of eight individuals with abortion-related expertise in advocacy, service delivery and training, representing a broad information base from among the Consortium's members. The majority of Steering Committee members come from developing countries or countries in transition, with an appropriate gender balance and geographic distribution. Steering Committee members participate in Steering Committee meetings, commit time to Consortium activities and represent and promote the Consortium at conferences they attend and in other activities in which they are involved.

Role

The Steering Committee is responsible for:
  • determining the strategies and priority activities of the Consortium;
  • ensuring review of, and approving, materials developed for dissemination;
  • the establishment and membership of the Working Groups;
  • determining attendance at conferences and other meetings on behalf of the Consortium; and ensuring that funding is obtained to undertake the Consortium's activities.

 

ICMA International Steering Committee Members 2009

Marge Berer, Chair, Editor, Reproductive Health Matters, London, UK
www.rhmjournal.org.uk

Mariana Romero,  Co-chair, CEDES, Argentina
www.cedes.org
www.despenalizacion.org.ar

Bela Ganatra,   Ipas, Sr. Research and Policy Advisor (Asia), India
www.ipas.org/
 
Wanda Nowicka,   Federation for Women and Family Planning and ASTRA Network, Poland
www.federa.org.pl
www.astra.org.pl

Beverly Winikoff,  Gynuity Health Projects, President, USA
www.gynuity.org

Peter Fajans,  WHO Observer, UNDP/UNFPA/WHO/World Bank Special Programme of Research, Development and Research Training in Human Reproduction, (HRP), Switzerland
www.who.int/
 
Hala Eldamanhoury,  New Woman Foundation, Gynaecology / Obstetrics physician and researcher, Egypt
haladamanhoury@yahoo.com

 
 
ICMA International Advisory Committee 2009
 

Ayse Akin
Hacettepe University Research and Implementation Center on Women's Issues, Turkey

Cheng Linan
Shanghai Institute of Family Planning, China

Kristina Gemzell
Karolinska Insitute, Sweden

Danielle Hassoun
Centre for Training in Reproductive Health Technologies, France

Selma Hajri
Clinician, Tunisia

Ann Leonard
Ipas, USA

Fred Nunes
Jamaica

 

ICMA Regional Networks Coordinators 2009

Susana Chavez
Coordinator of Latin America and the Caribbean Network - Latin American and Caribbean Consortium against Unsafe Abortion (CLACAI)

Suchitra Dalvie
Coordinator of Asian Network - Asia Safe Abortion Partnership (ASAP)

Galina Maistruk
Coordinator of Eastern European Network - Eastern European Alliance for Reproductive Choice (EEARC)

Djingarey Maiga
Coordinator of African Network on Medical Abortion
 

 
ICMA Coordinator 2009

Rodica Comendant
Reproductive Health Training Centre, Moldova

 
The Consortium is not:
  • determine norms and standards;
  • carry out programmes and research in countries; or
  • make grants or act as a conduit for funding.
 

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