Transforming Family Planning

Uluk Batyrgaliev is an international trainer-consultant on SRHR and media influencer in Kyrgyzstan. He is a Health Officer at the Eurasian Coalition for Health, Rights, Gender and Sexual Diversity (ECOM). He is a board member of the Reproductive Health Alliance of Kyrgyzstan, Vice-Chair of the International Planned Parenthood Federation‘s (IPPF) Board of Trustees, and Youth Focal Point in the Family Planning 2030 (FP2030) platform.

Uluk has 12 years of experience in family planning, SRHR, sexual orientation and gender identity (SOGI), comprehensive sexuality education (CSE), and HIV, as well as over 6 years of experience in advocacy, human rights, developing policy briefs, conducting sociological and human rights research, minimum initial service package (MISP), developing training and information materials on SRHR and human rights.

Zuhura Mbuguni is a public health specialist with a nursing and midwifery background. She has over fifteen years experience working in the reproductive health field, particularly in family planning and adolescent and youth sexual and reproductive health (AYSRH) programming. She works with Tanzania’s Ministry of Health as a National Family Planning Coordinator and Government Focal Point for FP2030. She has vast experience working with various FP/RH partners including donors, development partners, implementing partners, civil society organizations (CSOs) at national and sub national levels.

Elijah Rottok is an advocate of the High Court of Kenya with diverse experience in strategic programming, advocacy and monitoring of human rights. Elijah serves as a Senior Human Rights Officer of the Kenya National Commission on Human Rights based in Nairobi in the Division of Reforms and Accountability. He is the Gender Focal at the Commission, and also serves as a Board Member of the National Legal Aid Service. His ongoing passion to create access to justice for victims of sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV).

Emilie Filmer-Wilson is the Senior Human Rights Adviser at the UNFPA. She provides leadership and advisory support for UNFPA’s human rights works and efforts to “leave no one behind,” as well as advances research on the nexus between women’s rights and sexual and reproductive health.

She has over 18 years of experience working with development organizations on mainstreaming human rights; this includes as human rights policy specialist with the UN Development Coordination Office NY, (2011-2017); managing the UN systems human rights based approach training at the UN System Staff College in Turin, Italy; and knowledge management specialist on human rights for the UN Development Program (UNDP Oslo Governance Centre). Prior to joining the UN, she worked as a consultant with Department for International Development (DFID) and Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development’s Development Assistance Committee (OECD-DAC), as well as with a national human rights NGO in Guatemala.