This is the plenary presentation of Beth Schlachter, which was made as part of the 10th session of #APCRSHR10 Virtual, on the theme of "Innovations and changing norms around sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) in Asia and the Pacific".
C H A I R
Dr Eden R Divinagracia
Executive Director, Philippine NGO Council
on Population, Health and Welfare (PNGOC)
P L E N A R Y S P E A K E R
Beth Schlachter
Executive Director, Family Planning 2020 (FP 2020)
"Family planning progress to date and a collective vision for family planning post-2020"
A B S T R A C T P R E S E N T A T I O N S
Dr Neeta Shrestha | Visiting Service Provider Approach: reaching the unreached with Family Planning services
Dr Pramesh C Bhatnagar | Peer lead approach for Promoting change in socio-Cultural Norms in a conservative rural community so as to reduce child marriage and promote youth friendly SRHR: An Intervention from Khalikote Ganjam Rural area of Orissa India
Mehrin Shah | Increasing Lady Health Workers’ knowledge of sexual and reproductive health and rights: addressing knowledge gaps and improving linkages within rural communities in Pakistan
Elisa Oreglia, Camille Tijamo | Smartphone use and reproductive health in Cambodia: A qualitative, multi-disciplinary exploratory study
For more information on the session, please visit
www.bit.ly/apcrshr10virtual10
Official conference website: www.apcrshr10cambodia.org
Thanks
2. FAMILY PLANNING 2020 (FP2020)
• FP2020 is a global
partnership with the goal of
enabling 120 million more
women and girls to access
and use contraceptives by
2020.
• FP2020 supports the rights
of women and girls to decide,
freely and for themselves,
whether, when, and how
many children they want to
have.
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5. COUNTRY PRIORITIES TO ENSURE FP IN
COVID-19 RESPONSE: ASIA REGION
Remaining/persistent challenges:
• Readiness/responsiveness of health system
• Budget allocation for current/future FP programs
• SBCC at the community level, including constraints on women
and girls who wish to seek information and services
• Constraints encountered by service providers (PPE, training, etc.)
• Youth/adolescents are missing from some FP guidelines and/or
dialogues
• Continued monitoring of commodity shortages
• FP integration into RMNCH programs/supply chain
• Emerging demands (e.g. returning migrants)
• Further analysis on COVID impact on FP uptake
6. A NEW PARTNERSHIP MODEL
• Recommitment process with kick-off in January 2021
and run through the year
• The partnership will continue to 2030 (to be formally
launched at ICFP in November 2021)
• A commitment-based partnership
• Country-led and country-driven mandate
• Potential to expand impact to greater subset of
countries
• Seeks to strengthen role of civil society (including
youth) in accountability efforts and promote greater
advocacy coordination and alignment
• New architecture with regional hubs
7. To promote an efficient and timely transition process, we stood up a
transition structure that includes a transition management team
2030 Architecture Transition
Share the intent
& rationale for
change
Finalize the post-
2020
architecture
Execute a gradual
transition
Launch of the
partnership at
ICFP in
November 2021
October 2020 – December 2021
Transition Process
8. Vision Framework
Working together for a future where all women and adolescent girls everywhere have the
freedom and ability to make their own informed decisions about using modern contraception
and whether or when to have children, lead healthy lives, and participate as equals in society
and its development
Expand the Narrative
and Shape the Policy
Agenda
Increase, Diversify, and
Efficiently Use Financing
Drive Data and
Evidence-Informed
Decision Making
Transform Social and
Gender Norms
• Voluntary, person-centered, rights-based approaches, with equity at the core
• Empowering women and girls and engaging men, boys, and communities
• Build intentional and equitable partnerships with adolescents, youth, and marginalized populations
to meet their needs, including for accurate and disaggregated data collection and use
• Country-led global partnerships, with shared learning and mutual accountability for commitments
and results
To realize the vision, countries and partners will…
Our commitments, decisions, and efforts are guided by…
Improve System
Responsiveness to
Individual Rights and
Needs
Vision Tagline
Objective Objective Objective Objective Objective Objective Objective Objective Objective Objective
Voluntary modern contraceptive use by everyone who wants it, achieved through individuals’ informed choice and agency,
responsive and sustainable systems providing a range of contraceptives, and a supportive policy environment.
The change we wish in the world is …
9. VISION LEVEL RESULTS STATEMENT
Voluntary modern contraceptive use by everyone who wants it, achieved through
individuals’ informed choice and agency, responsive and sustainable systems providing a
range of contraceptives, and a supportive policy environment.
This results statement highlights aspects of progress toward the vision that will be monitored
through the FP2030 measurement framework, including whether:
• Individuals have information about methods and side effects for a range of contraceptive
choices and the ability to exercise their right to determine whether, when and how many
children they want to have.
• Responsive health systems equitably and sustainably provide high quality services and
supplies for a range of contraceptive methods.
• Countries and partners have supportive policy, financing, and accountability
environments that enable voluntary contraceptive use.
FP2020: REFERENCE GROUP TELECONFERENCE
17 NOVEMBER 2020
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Transform Social and Gender Norms
Description of the Focus Area
• Social, cultural, and gender norms significantly and directly affect the ability of
women and adolescent girls to control matters related to their reproductive
health, adopt healthy reproductive health behaviors, including the informed and
voluntary use of modern contraception, which in turn has an impact on their
overall health and well-being, as well as that of their family, community, and
country.
• In addition to addressing the barriers between women and girls and access to a
full range of modern contraceptives, programs must support advocacy and
support interventions that address harmful norms and practices such as early
marriage and gender-based violence, as well as positive norms such as keeping
girls in school, involving men and boys as healthy partners in contraceptive use,
and promoting the healthy timing and spacing of pregnancy.
• The partnership will increasingly emphasize efforts to promote positive
normative change.
Success Statement
A woman or adolescent girl’s decision to use modern contraception is supported and
accepted
11. • Increased and sustained investment in social and
behavior change
• Ongoing, sustained normative support for family planning
• Programs must support advocacy and interventions that
address harmful norms and practices, such as early
marriage and gender-based violence
• Programs must also support advocacy and interventions that
promote positive norms and behaviors such as keeping
girls in school, involving men and boys, and promoting the
healthy timing and spacing of pregnancy
Transforming Social and Gender Norms
FP2020 is an international community of partners with the goal of advancing rights-based family planning. The FP2020 partnership was launched at the London Summit on Family Planning in 2012, which aimed to ensuring that 120 million women and girls have access to modern contraception by 2020.
As part of the FP2020 partnership framework, countries have committed to developing, supporting, and strengthening their family planning programs to promote progress. Each country’s commitment serves as a blueprint for collaboration: it provides partners with common priorities and measurable goals.
At the London Summit, governments made public commitments to address the policy, financing, delivery and socio-cultural barriers to women’s access to contraceptive information, services and supplies.
Donors, including the private sector, committed $2.6 billion to support these efforts.
INTENDED IMPACT
FP2020’s goal serves as a “global rallying cry to mobilize resources and leadership” to improve and expand voluntary family planning programs to an additional 120 million women and girls. The goal is measurable, but it is not intended to reduce women and girls to mere numbers. Improving the quality of services is equally as important as expanding their reach.
Success for us is focusing on women and girls want – and this rights-based foundation makes this critical to our success and to our efforts to reach adolescents and youth. Consensus is mounting that access to family planning is both crucial to promoting and protecting human rights and a linchpin of successful, sustainable development. FP2020 is intended to do business differently with greater impact.
Find an expanded vision level results statement here.
Regional Managers/Officer/Associates presents the overall guideline for the country (re)commitment process (12 mins – 9 slides, we had to ruthlessly prioritize)
The next iteration of our partnership remains commitment-based. In order to join our global movement, your country will be invited to make a commitment describing how it plans to accelerate progress for family planning.
As duty bearer, the country’s government will be the primary owner of this commitment. The government primarily commits towards the women and girls of its population, as well as other commitment-makers globally. By making a commitment, your government also supports guiding principles stated in the partnership’s vision statement, including accountability and transparency making their commitment publicly available to other commitment-makers.
Civil society, including youth organizations, are key in supporting the commitment’s co-creation, execution, and accountability mechanisms.
Commitments should be family planning-specific. Integration within the Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn and Child and Adolescent Health (RMNCAH) framework and within human rights efforts should be considered.
Countries commit to deliver their commitment against the SDG’s horizon (2030). However, we’d like to hear from you about the pros and cons of breaking this 10-year period into several shorter commitment periods (perhaps 3 of 5 year-commitments).