Dr. Elizabeth Mason, IAP Member, encouraged parliamentarians to take a close look at the transformative power of accountability for achieving adolescents’ health and well-being during a dialogue convened by the Inter-Parliamentary Union Assembly (IPU), held in Geneva on 26 March 2018, entitled  “Ensuring accountability and oversight for adolescent health”.
Geneva, 10 May 2018

The UN Secretary-General’s Independent Accountability Panel for Every Woman, Every Child, Every Adolescent is proud to share that its Co-chair, Kul Gautam, has been announced the winner of the 2018 Harris Wofford Global Citizen Award.
10 May 2018

“Urgent action now for adolescents or face worldwide repercussions”, appeals the UN Secretary-General’s Independent Accountability Panel at the Georgian Parliament
Parliament of Georgia, Tbilisi, 6 February 2018

2017 is Every Woman Every Child’s 7th anniversary. IAP 2017 Report is highlighted among EWEC seven notable achievements in 2017.

“Expanding UHC is a political process. It is about who has voice and power in defining health priorities, for whom, and how fairly they are financed. How many countries have policies to ensure people with disabilities, living with HIV, mental health conditions or in humanitarian settings are getting their share of UHC benefits?”, states the IAP in commenting on the Tracking Universal Health Coverage 2017 Global Monitoring Report, launched  at the UHC2030 event in Tokyo (12-15 December).

IAP Co-Chairs, Carmen Barroso and Kul Gautam, formally submit the IAP 2017 Report on Transforming Accountability for Adolescents to Secretary-General of the United Nations António Guterres, 19 September 2017, at the High-Level Steering Group for Every Woman Every Child meeting in New York.

On the occasion of the 11th International Association for Adolescent Health Congress  held in New Delhi, the IAP convened a symposium on October 28 to present the IAP’s 2017 report, Transformative Accountability for Adolescents, and engage participants on how to take the IAP’s findings and recommendations forward.  IAP Members, Dakshitha (Sri Lanka) and Giorgi Pkhakadze (Georgia), briefed the audience on the report’s main calls for action, affirming adolescents as the central promise for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals.

The UN Secretary-General’s IAP 2017 Report, Transforming Accountability for Adolescents, was launched by IAP Member Dr. Giorgi Pkhakadze on 18 October in Amman, Jordan, on the heels of its international release during a UN General Assembly high-level event  in New York.