To increase access to budget info… AHBN launches #ValueOurHealth

Thursday April 14, 2016

Africa Health Budget Network (AHBN) yesterday launched a new campaign dubbed #ValueOurHealth at Kona Lodge, King Street in Freetown which is a prelude to the Global launch tomorrow.
#ValueOurHealth campaign which theme is ‘open and participatory budgets lead to more and better health spending for women and children’ is calling on all governments in Sub-Saharan Africa to take urgent action to increase access to budget information and to provide more opportunity for public engagement in the budgeting process.

“Seeing the ugly statistics of Sierra Leone, we are having one of the highest maternal mortality rates in the world, that our illiteracy rate is one of the highest (is disturbing) but the good news is that we can turn around the situation if we want to, if we have the commitment; if we have the resources and accountable for those resources, then we can make a difference in the lives of our women and children,” he emphasized.

see more at: http://awoko.org/2016/04/14/sierra-leone-news-to-increase-access-to-budget-info-ahbn-launches-valueourhealth/