FP2020 is Contributing to the Global Development Architecture
With the transition from the Millennium Development Goals to the Sustainable Development Goals, 2015 has been a momentous year for global development. FP2020 worked with a range of partners over the past year to influence the evolving global architecture and ensure that contraceptive information, services, and supplies are understood as central to achieving health and gender equality goals. Voluntary, rights-based family planning is central to other Sustainable Development Goals as well: ending extreme poverty, increasing social inclusion, enhancing environmental stewardship, and fostering sustainable development and economic growth.
In advance of the adoption of the Sustainable Development Goals and the launch of the updated Global Strategy for Women’s, Children’s and Adolescents’ Health at the UN General Assembly in September 2015, the FP2020 Secretariat served on the writing team convened by UNICEF for the Operational Framework for the Updated Global Strategy, provided feedback on the technical working papers, actively engaged as a member of a post-2015 working group led by the WHO’s Partnership for Maternal, Newborn & Child Health (PMNCH), and supported the WHO- and UNFPA-led initiative to include women and girls living in humanitarian situations in the the updated Global Strategy.
Read the updated Global Strategy for Women's, Children's and Adolescents' Health
2015 has been a momentous year for global development. FP2020 worked with a range of partners over the past year to influence the evolving global architecture and ensure that contraceptive information, services, and supplies are understood as central to achieving health and gender equality goals.
FP2020 also played a key role in the design of the new Global Financing Facility (GFF) in Support of Every Woman Every Child, launched in July 2015. Through its representation on the Oversight Group and Business Planning Team and alongside key partners at the global and country levels, FP2020 was influential in developing the GFF Business Plan and determining ways to capitalize on the emergence of this new opportunity in support of FP2020’s goals. FP2020 is aligned with the GFF’s guiding principles and commends the prioritization of family planning within the GFF Business Plan as well as the focus on equity, gender, and rights. Under the guidance of the Reference Group, FP2020 will collaborate with the World Bank and others as the GFF is operationalized and work to ensure that FP2020 commitments are upheld.
