Uganda pledges more funding for family planning at the launch of FP2030 global masterplan
Uganda has pledged to increase its annual funding for family planning activities.
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Gates Foundation, UNFPA pledge US$3.1 billion to increase access to family planning at global launch of FP2030 partnership
Leaders from across the reproductive health space including Melinda French Gates and UNFPA Executive Director Natalia Kanem gathered at the global event LAUNCHING FP2030: Moving Forward Together to Transform the Future introducing the transformed FP2030 partnership and its new leadership alongside the first FP2030 commitments from national governments and donors. The inclusive and wide-reaching new scope of the partnership was outlined in FP2030’s latest report, Becoming FP2030.
Samukeliso Dube appointed as FP2030’s Executive Director
Hon. Mereseini Vuniwaqa will be joining as the Chair of the partnership’s new Governing Board.
Launch of the Uganda Family Planning 2030 Commitments
The government of Uganda announces its FP2030 commitment.
Call for Applications: Performance Monitoring and Evidence Working Group Early Career Fellowship
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.
News and Updates from FP2030
It is an exciting moment to be writing, just ahead of the important changes taking place at FP2030 — changes that will officially mark the completion of our year of transition and the start of the next phase of our global partnership.
Married and Pregnant Adolescent Girls: Understanding Their Contexts and Futures
Today, 650 million girls and women were married as children, and currently over 1 in 5 girls are married before the age of 18. Many donors, international and civil society organizations, and others have advocated for and allocated resources to end child marriage, which has led to reductions in this practice, particularly in South and Central Asia. However, it’s important to remember that even as rates of early marriage decline, the absolute number of adolescent girls who are subjected to child marriage is likely to increase, as the overall population of adolescents grows. What’s more, COVID-19 appears to have reversed many of the gains made in previous years, and around 10 million additional girls are expected to marry by 2030 due to the pandemic’s social and economic disruptions.
Engaging Men and Boys Is Critical to Gender Equality and Family Planning
Much of the literature on family planning and reproductive health is women-centered. This makes sense — family planning is incredible for women. It protects their physical health by allowing them to space their children and reduce high-risk pregnancies, enables and empowers them to pursue economic and educational opportunities, and helps improve their mental health by allowing them to choose when to have children, if at all.
News and Updates from FP2030
As we approach World Contraception Day, FP2030 is thrilled to welcome over 30 new and renewed nongovernmental commitments to the FP2030 partnership.
Expanding equity measurements of family planning beyond wealth status and contraceptive use
Despite progress, the vision of the International Conference on Population and Development to achieve universal access to sexual and reproductive health services, including contraception, remains unfulfilled. Transforming our world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development acknowledges the continuing need for sexual reproductive health and contraception by including two goals with targets aimed at universal access to contraceptive services. Realizing these goals will require greater focus and investment, to understand and address the barriers that millions of women and girls currently at risk of an unwanted pregnancy face in accessing and using voluntary family planning.
