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.
To facilitate sharing of information and coordinated efforts, FP2020 has created a Task Team on measuring COVID-19 impacts on family planning. This week we’re launching a new webpage on COVID-19 impacts where FP2020 partners can share and aggregate resources.
In this viewpoint, potential immediate and longer term impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on the SRH needs and behaviors of AYA are reviewed.
The COVID‐19 pandemic has taken much of the world by surprise. With over 4 700 000 infections to date across 188 countries and more than 310 000 deaths worldwide over the course of just 5 months, we were remarkably unprepared.
Reflecting on our own work, we feel more strongly than ever that our partnership must be shaped by the partners themselves. To that end, in the next phase of the partnership, FP2020 will function through regional hubs, in order to ensure countries lead the way in setting and accomplishing their own goals. We will continue to keep you updated as this process moves forward.
What does a favorable policy environment for FP/RH program look like? The policies need to be grounded in the premise that all citizens have a right to experience the highest attainable standard of health. They need to ensure that FP/RH policies translate into meaningful actions that support acceptable, accessible, available, and quality FP/RH services, and that the policies include benchmarks to ensure accountability. Such policies can be introduced and/or strengthened now to prepare for the future, to ensure FP/RH programs continue to serve clients during crises.
To ensure that women and girls continue to receive life-saving sexual and reproductive health services during the COVID-19 crisis, UNFPA Bangladesh is conducting its first-ever virtual training on the Minimum Initial Service Package (MISP) for health care professionals.
DKT launched an SOS hotline for pregnant women and women who need assistance and identifying maternal health or Family Planning service providers.We rolled out a phone survey to identify healthcare providers willing to remain open and offered special promotions for Family Planning coupled with a phone survey reaching out to DKT potential clients previously recruited in communities.
As coronavirus lockdowns continue to restrict movement around the world, Shoniwa and others working on family planning initiatives in developing countries have found female patients facing an uncomfortable paradox: The measures intended to keep them safe from the pandemic could have dangerous long-term impacts on their health.
With lockdown measures beginning to ease, activists across the global south are finally able to begin gauging the impact of the restrictions on maternal health, even as they move quickly to prevent any long-term damage.
