Focus Areas
Working towards global reproductive choice; autonomy and empowerment; and gender equality.
Commitment Makers
Creating a future for women and girls with the freedom and ability to lead healthy lives.
The OPCU recently hosted a webinar, Family Planning in a Humanitarian Crisis: How to Maintain Services and Strengthen the Resilience of Populations and Health Systems, as a chance to continue conversations raised at the OP annual meeting in December.
Beverly Nkirote, FP2030 Youth Focal Point for Kenya, is a Program Officer at the Network for Adolescents and Youth of Africa (NAYA), a youth-led regional advocacy network committed to sexual and reproductive health and rights advocacy.
Evidence shows that, to reach global goals related to women and girls’ access to modern family planning (FP) and gender equality, it is critical to understand and account for the role of men and boys as users of reproductive health services, as partners for millions of women & girls around the world, and as advocates in their communities.
Every woman and girl, no matter where she lives, should have the freedom and ability to use lifesaving, life-changing modern contraception. This was our fundamental objective when Family Planning 2020 (FP2020) was launched in 2012 at the London Summit on Family Planning.
In early 2020, the WHO/IBP Network and Knowledge SUCCESS Project launched an effort to support organizations to share their experiences using High Impact Practices (HIPs) and WHO Guidelines and Tools in Family Planning and Reproductive Health Programming.
Transitions are moments of high possibility. A chance to start fresh; a chance to change course. An opportunity to build on what we've learned and strike out in new directions. This year is a time of major transitions for our partnership, as FP2020 becomes FP2030.
An estimated 218 million women across low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) have an unmet need for contraception: that is, they want to avoid a pregnancy but are not using modern contraceptives. Mass media reaches a large share of the population in these countries, but how effective is it in changing behaviors? To answer this question, Development Media International (DMI) conducted a randomized controlled trial to evaluate the impact of an intensive, 30-month radio campaign in Burkina Faso that promoted family planning. The trial was funded by the Global Innovation Fund (GIF), Development Innovation Ventures (DIV) of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), and an individual philanthropist.
The commitment process for the FP2030 partnership is live, with governments and other stakeholders recommitting — or committing for the first time — to advancing rights-based family planning. In order to create a commitment that is truly rights-based, commitment makers should consider including specific provisions for LGBTI individuals in their commitments.
For five months, two mobile clinics covered more than 10,000 kilometers to serve 59 remote localities in seven districts. More than 14,000 people benefited from pre- and postnatal consultations, family planning services, sexually transmitted infections (STIs) screening and treatment and educational sessions.
New evidence builds the case for increased investment in sexual and reproductive health care in low- and middle-income countries
