We call on our governments, international organisations, including the United Nations agencies, development partners and other duty bearers to take the following actions:

1. Recognise that gender equality, equity and sexual and reproductive rights are central and integral to sustainable development.
2. In reshaping the international political and development agenda beyond the ICPD PoA and MDGs, ensure a comprehensive and holistic sexual and reproductive rights and health (SRHR) agenda.
3. Review, amend and implement laws and policies to address the needs and realities of women, young people and LGBTQI persons, and to uphold human rights, including sexual and reproductive rights.
4. Ensure that accountability mechanisms are in place and adhere to the highest standards of transparency in order to monitor progress in achieving SRHR, social equality and equity, and achieving universal access for all.
5. Fulfil the right to universal access to a continuum of quality care and comprehensive sexual and reproductive health services, supplies and information, through all levels of healthcare and public provisioning.
6. Provide universal comprehensive sexuality education (CSE) and youth-friendly health services (YFHS).
7. Conduct and support ethical, gender-sensitive research that provides the evidence for policymaking and programming related to SRHR and its linkages with other issues. Data should be disaggregated according to age, sex and other socio-economic indicators.
8. Unequivocally endorse, sustain and scale up domestic resources and official development aid (ODA) for the implementation of comprehensive SRHR interventions in the region.
9. Address the impact of religious extremism on SRHR for women, young people, LGBTQI persons and other vulnerable groups, including by removing legal and policy barriers based in political and cultural conservatism.
10. Address the increased vulnerabilities of women and young people due to migration, climate change, disasters, conflict and displacement, and adopt concrete measures to mitigate their impacts, including on SRHR.
11. Abolish global and regional trade and financial policies that perpetuate food insecurity, malnutrition and interlinked SRHR concerns.
12. Meaningfully engage NGOs and progressive social movements from the global South as equal partners in development at all levels, particularly women-led and youth-led groups, and ensure an enabling environment for their work.

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