Realising Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) 3 and 5, including universal access to sexual and reproductive health, is key for sustainable development and a pre-requisite for progress on all other SDGs. These two SDGs, which are inherently and strongly connected, were under thematic review in 2017 and therefore at the centre...
Countdown 2030 Europe Brussels-based partners successfully proposed amendments to the EU Annual Budget 2018 on human development. The Annual Budget is a key instrument to ensure that EU commitments towards Sexual and Reproductive Health and Family Planning (SRH/FP) effectively translate into its development cooperation programming. Partners worked in collaboration with...
Approximately $5 billion was pledged to increase access to sexual and reproductive health services in developing countries at the London Family Planning Summit last month. The summit, coinciding with World Population Day on the 11th of July, was called to accelerate family planning progress in order to reach the Family Planning 2020 (FP2020) goals...
By Abigail Rowlands, SRHR Policy and Advocacy Officer, Plan UK and UK Coordinator, Action for Global Health On 11th July, the UK Government hosted the Family Planning (FP) Summit, bringing together policymakers, donors, and advocates from around the world to commit to support family planning. Huge progress has been made...
Access to Family planning is essential to ensuring women and girls meet their full potential. When women and girls have access to family planning, they are able to complete their education, create or seize better economic opportunities, and achieve their own goals, and dreams. As a result, entire families, communities...