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News Topic: Rights-Based Family Planning

The Power of Rights-based Contraception for Young People

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We often hear that “young people are the future,” and although it might be a cliche, it’s true — young people will inherit the world we live in, and their decisions will affect the future for generations to come. Yet many young people are still left out when it comes to accessing rights-based contraception and participating in conversations and programs about family planning. Too often we hear that young people are not mature enough for these kinds of conversations, that asking for contraceptives is wrong, and that this taboo subject is better avoided than discussed. However, if we were to face those misconceptions and grant young people universal access to rights-based contraception in our health care systems, we would get one step closer to achieving gender equality, increasing literacy rates and other prosperity indicators, and, consequently, enhancing a region’s economic growth.

News and Updates from FP2030

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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.

Pride, Power and Family Planning

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If the COVID-19 pandemic has taught us anything, it’s that everyone’s health is deeply interconnected. We recognized this in the Sustainable Development goals, in SDG3: good health and well being for all. But we will never achieve this goal by segmenting people and their health care. This applies to family planning as well. For too long, family planning has been siloed as a “women’s issue,” but if the most excluded and stigmatized people in our communities can’t use the family planning services available, we won’t succeed in meeting our family planning goals. 

Displaced Rohingya navigate new parenthood in Bangladesh

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According to a survey, non-facility childbirth, which heightens the risk of injury and death, has fallen in the past few decades in Bangladesh. Half are now institutional deliveries, a major driver of the increase in deliveries by medically trained providers.

Accelerating Quality Family Planning Services

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The WHO FP Accelerator project supports partners and ministries of health (MoH) to accelerate quality and rights-based family planning (FP) services within the broader frameworks of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), Universal Health Coverage (UHC) and the WHO 13th Global Programme of Work (GPW13). The project contributes specifically to attainment of SDG targets 3.1, 3.7 and 5.6, and to the GPW13 goal of 1 billion more people covered by UHC. The WHO-FP Accelerator Project is coordinated by the Contraception and Fertility Care (CFC) Unit in the WHO Department of Sexual and Reproductive Health and Research (WHO/SRH) and implemented with WHO’s Regional and Country offices

News and Updates from FP2030

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We have been energized as we hear from partners around the world who are in the process of developing their FP2030 commitments. Governments are collaborating with civil society and youth organizations to shape national commitments using many of the resources in the FP2030 commitments toolkit to guide their discussions. If your organization is considering making a commitment, the toolkit will walk you through the steps and underlying principles, with links to key resources to inform your commitment.