In recent years, there have been great successes toward increasing government funds for family planning—however, considerable work remains. For example, important initiatives such as FP2020, the Ouagadougou Partnership and the Global Financing Facility have mobilized government commitments to fund family planning programs. Advocacy has ensured that these commitments are implemented through budgetary allocations, but due to challenges with monitoring real-time government spending, there has been little progress in tracking whether such allocations are spent.