The Countdown 2030 Europe Consortium welcomes the first report of the High-Level Commission on the Nairobi Summit on the ICPD25 Follow-up (HLC). The Commission’s mandate to review progress of the twelve Nairobi statement commitments and to advocate for meaningful follow-up of the 2019 Nairobi Summit, is critical. The Nairobi Summit was a...
The Cotonou Partnership Agreement (CPA) between the European Union (EU) and the group of 79 African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries will expire in February 2020. Currently, a new agreement is being negotiated. As negotiations advance, some points of diversion between both parties progressively emerge such as the Sexual and...
AMODEFA, the IPPF Member Association in Mozambique, is the largest non-governmental provider of sexual and reproductive health care in Mozambique, and one of the lead organisations advocating for sexual and reproductive health and rights. It works in a challenging context, where 1 in 2 girls are pregnant or have had...
AMODEFA – the IPPF member in Mozambique - has been running for 30 years. “This last decade should have been the phase of sustainability. This phase has been pushed back and we feel we are going back 10 years. The demand has been placed, but now, we can’t provide the...
Despite the rise of ultra-conservatism and populism in Europe driving a backlash on women’s reproductive safety and care, policies and funding for global development and SRH/FP were solidified and championed in many global fora. Countdown 2030 Europe analysis concluded that ten out of twelve key European donor countries sustained or...