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.

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. 

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.

News and Updates from FP2030

Today, as the world celebrates International Youth Day, it's important to recognize that the first global calls for youth participation predate the young people of today.

Building FP2030 – An Update on the FP2030 Transition Process

The Transition Oversight Group (TOG), through its three active working committees and a separate Finance Group, continued to work in refining and moving forward the establishment of the new FP2030 structure. The TOG’s efforts on establishing the future governance structure, operationalizing the five regional hubs, and recruiting a new Executive Director to lead the next stage of the partnership are steadily progressing with support from the Secretariat and the Transition Management Team.

News and Updates from FP2030

This last month, we’ve been celebrating LGBTI Pride as well as the second Generation Equality Forum in Paris. This is a good opportunity to recognize that the FP2030 partnership will be bigger and more inclusive, engaging partners beyond the family planning sector. People everywhere and in every body have the right to choose when or whether to have children, and they have the right to live healthy lives — and these rights are foundational to achieving gender equality. This is just one of the many ways FP2030 commitments are aligned with Generation Equality.