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PM to co-chair UN body monitoring aid to women, kids
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The Canadian Press
Date: Thursday Dec. 16, 2010 11:42 AM ET
OTTAWA — Prime Minister Stephen Harper is helping oversee a new United Nations group focused on aid for women's and children's health.
The Commission on Information and Accountability for Women's and Children's Health will create a system to help countries monitor where and how they spend resources devoted to those two areas.
The framework will also help countries gather evidence to show which programs work best.
The prime minister made maternal and child health Canada's signature issue at the G8 meetings last summer, announcing Canada would give $1.1 billion to the cause.
Since then, countries have pledged more than $40 billion in resources to save the lives of 16 million women and children by 2015.
Harper is co-chairman of the commission with the president of the United Republic of Tanzania.
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