Reconvening Bangkok: 2007 - 2010:
Progress Made and Lessons Learned
A Technical Meeting Hosted by ESD

Conference Program Guide

READ THE PRESENTATIONS AND BANGKOK ONLINE JOURNAL

Individual Presentations by Subject:

Maternal Health

Newborn, Infant and Child Health

Family Planning/HTSP

Scaling-Up

Cross-Cutting

Country Team Presentations:

Afghanistan

Bangladesh

Cambodia

India

Indonesia (Emergency Obstetric and Neonatal Care)

Indonesia (Newborn Sepsis)

Jordan

Nepal

Pakistan (Family Planning)

Pakistan (ORS and Zinc)

Palestine

Philippines

Timor-Leste

Vietnam

Yemen

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RECONVENING BANGKOK: Meeting Description

MARCH 6-11, 2010

Reconvening Bangkok: 2007 to 2010 - Progress Made and Lessons Learned
in Scaling-Up FP-MNCH Best Practices in the Asia and Middle East (AME) Region

Following a successful technical meeting in Bangkok, Thailand in 2007, which engaged high-level public health stakeholders from across Asia and the Middle East, USAID, with the management and technical support of the Extending Service Delivery Project (ESD), hosted a follow-up meeting March 6-11, 2010 in Bangkok, Thailand, where experts reconvened to build on what had been accomplished since 2007.

More than 400 participants attended the meeting, and 85 presentations were given on five technical areas:  maternal health, newborn, infant and child health, family planning/HTSP, cross-cutting topics and scaling-up methodologies.

Participation in the meeting not only amplified the important work already being accomplished by ESD's field partners, but allowed them to meet new colleagues and be updated on the work of previous attendees in applying state-of-the-art best practices. The follow-up meeting built upon the purpose of the first, which was to:

* Strengthen and accelerate the application of high-impact FP/MNCH best practices not yet implemented to national/regional scale in Asia and the Middle East.

* Provide additional technical assistance for scaling-up in new regions, communities or facilities over a two- to three-year period.
 
To meet these goals, country teams :

* Presented their progress, success and barriers in scaling-up best practices since the 2007 Bangkok meeting.

*  Were exposed to state-of-the-art FP/MNCH best practices and methodologies for scaling-up presented and shared by world experts.

* Developed action plans to either spread their successful best practices or introduce new ones.

ESD and its partners will continue to support the country teams as they implement their time-bound plans of action for introducing and spreading FP/MNCH best practices.

Partners included: WHO/USAID Implementing Best Practices (IBP) Initiative; World Health Organization Department of Reproductive Health and Research (WHO/RHR); UNICEF; UNFPA; the USAID-funded MCHIP Project; ACCESS FP; Georgetown University’s Institute for Reproductive Health(IRH); ExpandNet; ESD partners IntraHealth, Management Sciences for Health (MSH), Pathfinder International and other partners in countries working on taking best practices to scale.