Category: FP2030 Newsletters

FP2030 Daily Dispatch from Women Deliver – Day 3

Hi all, MaryBeth here, back with the third in our series of FP2030 dispatches from Women Deliver, where 6,000 gender equality advocates are gathered in Kigali to talk sexual reproductive health and rights and other key, interlinked issues. I’ve been reflecting on the quote above from Sivananthi, an amazing feminist leader and visionary. How are… Continue reading FP2030 Daily Dispatch from Women Deliver – Day 3

FP2030 Daily Dispatch from Women Deliver – Day 2

Hello again! I’m Mary Beth Hastings, the resident gender nerd at FP2030 bringing you day two of FP2030’s Daily Dispatch from Women Deliver. This whole conference is a massive treat for someone like me, whose passion lies at the junction of gender and sexual and reproductive health and rights. So yesterday’s preconference, Bodily Autonomy: The… Continue reading FP2030 Daily Dispatch from Women Deliver – Day 2

FP2030 Daily Dispatch from Women Deliver

Welcome to FP2030’s Daily Dispatch from Kigali! I’m MaryBeth Hastings, FP2030’s Resident Gender Nerd — aka Senior Gender Advisor — and I’ll be reporting out every day on the themes, perspectives, and discussions emerging from the Women Deliver conference happening now in Kigali, Rwanda. Sunday began with pre-conferences galore, and FP2030 was in the thick of it. First… Continue reading FP2030 Daily Dispatch from Women Deliver

FP2030 on World Population Day

Dear colleagues: Greetings on this World Population Day! At FP2030, we are celebrating the power of women and girls to choose their futures to pursue an education, join the workforce, and lead our communities and nations. We are also celebrating the partnership that we have built together, as it was World Population Day 2012 at the… Continue reading FP2030 on World Population Day

FP2030 May Newsletter

Dear colleagues, I’m pleased to be writing to you fresh off the heels of the International Maternal and Newborn Health Conference (IMNHC) and Stronger Together, an energizing side event we hosted that brought together the maternal health and family planning communities. Every day, 800 women die in childbirth, and we know access to contraception has a critical… Continue reading FP2030 May Newsletter

News and Updates from FP2030

Dear colleagues, I’m pleased to be writing to you after a very successful launch of our Latin America & Caribbean Regional Hub in Panama City. We made the announcement alongside the regional hub host organization, Save the Children – Latin America and the Caribbean, with Profamilia Colombia. We’re delighted to begin the work of the hub and thankful… Continue reading News and Updates from FP2030

February Newsletter

Dear colleagues, Today, we’re celebrating International Women’s Day. While working to advance rights-based family planning, gender impacts everything we do. In particular, it’s at the root of every person’s ability to make and carry out decisions regarding contraception and sexual and reproductive health. And yet, if we engage only women and girls in discussions about… Continue reading February Newsletter

FP2030 Special Edition

Woman that are members of a cooperative group that bake cakes with a solar oven provided and supported by DSW (Deutsche Stiftung Weltbevoelkerung), an international development and advocacy organization with focus on achieving universal access to sexual and reproductive health and rights, during a baking meeting. The women sell the cakes to community members, and at local markets and generate personal income for the women. This income enables the women to have some financial independence and not rely on their husband, when spending money on their health and education for their children. This income also helps them when deciding on family planning options. The group also gathers regularly to discuss sexual reproductive health, and family planning options.

FP2030 is pleased to announce that our Asia and the Pacific Regional Hub will be located in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, hosted by the International Planned Parenthood Federation East and South East Asia & Oceania Region (IPPF ESEAOR).

News and Updates from FP2030

Endegena, 19, was born and raised in Jimma and is pictured here at the Family Guidance Association of Ethiopia (FGAE). She has been a part of FGAE for nearly two years and is practicing to become an Education for Health and Well-being trainer. FGAE offers sexual and reproductive health (SRH) services across the country, including in five zones of the Oromia Region. It has a network of 46 comprehensive SRH service delivery clinics and employs a youth-centered approach, which involves implementing services where adolescents and young people can easily access them, rather than directing clients to particular facilities

This week, we’re observing International Youth Day.

News and Updates from FP2030

Bethel, a medical student, participates in a meeting at the Talent Youth Association (TaYA) office. TaYA is a nonprofit promoting the health and well-being of Ethiopia’s youth. One example of its empowerment work is its participation in the Youth Challenge Initiative (YCI), a project led by the Youth Network for Sustainable Development. YCI aims to increase access to adolescent and youth sexual and reproductive health information and services. It also strives to meaningfully engage young people in its work and elevate the capacity of selected youth-led organizations.

Advocacy and accountability are two pillars of the FP2030 agenda.