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Call for Applications: Performance Monitoring and Evidence Working Group Early Career Fellowship

Members of a Youth to Youth group in Bangladesh slum in Mombasa, go for a community outreach distributing condoms, and preforming skits with messages relating to reproductive health. the initiative is 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.

The FP2030 Performance Monitoring and Evidence working group is offering a volunteer professional development fellowship for young professionals in the field of family planning measurement. The youth fellows will participate in PME WG meetings, work on areas of future work/small group activities and grow professionally in the global family planning measurement field. The youth fellows will be able to communicate with all PME WG members and the FP2030 team to build networks and expand leadership in this field. The youth fellowship is a rotational seat on the PME WG with a two-year term.

Proteger la salud y los derechos de las mujeres afganas

Portrait of young muslim woman wearing formal wear, protect face mask and hijab head scarf, hold Afghanistan flag card against isolated background. Coronavirus country concept.

La alianza FP2030 está extremadamente consternada por los derechos de las mujeres y su capacidad para acceder a los servicios de planificación familiar bajo el régimen talibán.

Protect the health and rights of Afghan women and girls

FP2030 is extremely concerned for the rights of women and girls and their ability to access family planning services under Taliban rule.

Nigeria: Ministry urges media to create more awareness on family planning

A mother interacting with her daughter, and using reading and coloring books as part of TOSTAN's Reinforcement of Parental Practices Module, where by applying the knowledge gained during the Reinforcement of Parental Practices Module, parents and community members will give children an excellent start in their social, linguistic, and emotional growth. This healthy development will in turn lead to more children staying in and excelling in school, and improve child parent relationship.

The Federal Ministry of Health has urged the media to create more awareness on family planning to enable Nigeria achieve a better modern contraceptive prevalence rate by 2024. Director, Reproductive Health in the ministry, Dr Kayode Afolabi, made the call in Abuja on Friday during an online media training for health reporters and features writers.… Continue reading Nigeria: Ministry urges media to create more awareness on family planning

Faith leaders can change the story of contraception in Nigeria and save thousands

The Imbuto Foundation is a Rwandan organization dedicated to advancing health, education, and youth empowerment. A key component of its Adolescent Sexual Reproductive Health and Rights Program is the Parent Adolescent Communication Forum, where parents and children are grouped by generation and gender to openly discuss family matters, including sexual and reproductive health questions. A participant in a men's focus group is pictured here.

Earlier this month, Nigeria’s Minister of State for Health, Dr Olorunnimbe Mamora, said that more widespread use of family planning can reduce maternal deaths by 30 percent, saving the lives of about 18,000 women every year.

Ghana: Don’t deny adolescents of family planning services

Mrs. Ellen Darkoa Asare, Eastern Regional Head, Reproductive Health Unit of the Ghana Health Service, says denying adolescents of family planning services would cause more harm than good considering the growing teenage pregnancies countrywide.

DKT International Announces $1 Billion Commitment to Advance Goals of FP2030

Across 90+ countries, DKT will ensure high quality contraception is available, affordable, and accessible—educating health providers and consumers alike on the benefit and use of family planning products and technologies

Calling for Creative, Bold, and Youth-friendly Campaign and Communications Experts!

A group of youth-led organizations – supported by FP2030 – is setting out to challenge the Sexual and Reproductive health and Rights field (especially governments, iNGOs, and donors)and take the movement for equitable partnerships with young people to the next level!

President of Pakistan stresses birth spacing amid rising population

President Dr Arif Alvi has called for accelerating efforts to reduce the population growth rate and lower the total fertility rate in the country.

Do you know where your birth control is? Tracking contraceptives improves health services – and choice in Uganda

A group of Africans feeling excited about what they saw on their cellphone

In Bukedea and four other districts in eastern and northern Uganda, a digital system launched by UNFPA tracks contraceptive supplies to avoid stock-outs and waste. DrugDash is a mobile app and web tool that generates and shares information on supplies across health facilities in real-time, eliminating frequent errors under the previous, laborious system of record-keeping on paper. With the latest numbers at their fingertips on a tablet, people can make more accurate and timely decisions about how to redistribute contraceptives.