November 2020 - Family Planning 2030

Global Call to Action for the Provision of Rights-Based, Client-Centered SRH During and After COVID-19

The global health community reaffirms its commitment to ensuring rights-based, clientcentered SRH services, including the full range of available contraceptive methods, HIV/STI prevention, testing, and treatment, and cervical cancer services during and after COVID-19.

FP2020 calls for universal access to family planning services

The Imbuto Foundation is a Rwandan organization dedicated to advancing health, education, and youth empowerment. Kamayirese Odette, a nurse, trains two community volunteers: Regis Niyongombwa, age 24, and Dieudone Ufiticyizere, age 23. Regis and Dieudone say the local health center has taught them to speak more openly about sexual and reproductive health topics.

More women have access to family planning information and services than ever before. Yet millions of women in developing countries who want to prevent pregnancy are still not using modern contraceptives. According to Family Planning 2020 (FPP2020), a global community set up during the 2012 London Summit on Family Planning, 314 million women and girls were… Continue reading FP2020 calls for universal access to family planning services

News and Updates from FP2020

While we have made great strides in increasing access to family planning in the past eight years, we recognize that women and girls live in complex realities. To ensure the greatest success, our family planning commitments must be person-centered and rights-based, with equity and justice at their core.

Redesigning the FP2020 Secretariat Requires Rethinking Power and Partnerships

Working as a Black woman in international development is complicated. Working in family planning is even more complicated—because what is more politicized than sex? And whose bodies have been more politicized, sexualized and traumatized than those of Black and Brown women? It’s no wonder then, that these women have led the movement to reframe our understanding of health, wealth, and development and have rejected power dynamics that would trivialize, dehumanize — silo — us. Transitioning the FP2020 Secretariat into the partnership beyond 2020 requires breaking down those silos.

WHO FP Accelerator Project Newsletter Sep 2020

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The WHO FP Accelerator project continues to support partners and ministries of health (MoH) to accelerate quality and rights-based family planning (FP) services within the broader frameworks of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), Universal Health Coverage (UHC) and the WHO 13th Global Programme of Work (GPW13).