Avoidable Death Network
The Avoidable Deaths Network (ADN) is a diverse, dynamic, inclusive and innovative global membership network dedicated to avoiding human deaths from natural hazards, naturally triggered technological hazards and human-made disasters in low- and middle-income countries. The ADN’s mission is: to provide a dynamic forum for experts, practitioners, researchers and organisational partners to identify and promote theoretical and practical solutions to reducing avoidable deaths. The ADN’s purpose is: to help policy makers, practitioners, researchers make better decisions to save lives and injuries for sustainable development. The ADN is led by the Universities of Leicester and Kansai.
The event brings together three world-class researchers who will present innovative tools for policymakers, advocates, and media that count human milk production in economic statistics, highlighting the importance of women’s unpaid work in our national budgets. These tools also show the return on investment for countries in supporting breastfeeding ecosystems and the costs of not enabling women’s and children’s rights to breastfeeding.
The panel aims to:
Highlight the invisibility of women in economic systems and raise breastfeeding on the policy agenda;
Identify productivity supports (formal and informal) for gender-responsive budgeting that will prevent avoidable deaths of women and children; and
Introduce innovative tools for calculating the economic benefits of breastfeeding in low-, middle-and, high-income countries.
