The MDAWG is working to identify strategies that merit streamlining and advoating within and beyond the Coalition. Once identified, these strategies will be analysed, documented, and disseminated both within and beyond the Coalition membership, as part of RHSC advocacy efforts. In disseminating information about these strategies, the MDAWG will work closely with the Resource Mobilization and Awareness Working Group.

The aim of this workstream is to raise awareness of different, proven approaches that can be used to secure and sustain reproductive health supplies, strengthen coordination across the Coalition's Working Groups, and integrate the policy and technical approaches identified by the Groups in the Coalition’s advocacy and dissemination efforts. In other words, the Coalition’s membership must be familiar with proven approaches in securing and sustaining reproductive health supplies if it is to advocate effectively for those strategies.

This need is especially critical when it comes to innovative financing approaches, public/private partnerships, and integrating advocacy into a changing global health context. The Coalition is the ideal forum for mainstreaming new approaches, increasing support for innovation, and fostering cross-sector collaboration. To drive this work forward, a “Mainstreaming” team, drawn from the MDAWG and including members of the RMAWG, is be constituted. The activities will be organized in three parts:

• Document: the mainstreaming team will document technical approaches and policies relating to public/private collaboration, health financing, and advocacy that have helped secure reproductive health supplies beyond traditional commodities donations. 
• Mainstream: The goal of this phase will be to mainstream state of the art, innovative approaches within the Coalition and explore implications for its advocacy efforts. 
• Advocate and Disseminate: the mainstreaming team will coordinate with colleagues and with affiliated in-country stakeholders, networks, and projects to disseminate advocacy messages and tools.

For more information on this workstream, please contact Ben Light, MDA WG Leader.