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Advocacy, Accountability & Family Planning
Community 101
Advocacy and accountability (A&A) play a critical role increasing access to and use of quality family planning services and supplies using evidence and best practices. A&A takes many forms and occurs at all levels – from influencing global platforms like the SDGS and FP2020 and holding countries accountable to their commitments to demanding reform at the local level and ensuring decision makers hear from the people impacted by their actions. Engaging in advocacy and accountability can speed up and improve the pace, scope, and quality of change to address the ongoing challenges in family planning and ensure that words translate into meaningful action. With so many challenges and opportunities facing the global family planning community, we all have a role to play in advocacy and accountability!
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Advocacy & Accountability at ICFP 2021
The A&A subcommittee aims to ensure that advocacy and accountability are highlighted throughout the ICFP. There are many activities planned for the upcoming conference including:
- Finding ways to engage donors and decision makers in different ways throughout the conference
- Including advocacy and accountability in various conference sessions
- Leading roundtable discussions and exchanges on topics related to advocacy and accountability
- The subcommittee is also exploring a pre-conference event
Stay tuned as we add more activities and details to this list!
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Key Dates
ICFP’s Not Without FP Forum
2-3 February 2021
At-a-Glance
ICFP Advocacy & Accountability Subcommittee
The ICFP Advocacy & Accountability (A&A) subcommittee was formed in 2015. At the 2016 ICFP in Bali, A&A was featured as a spotlighted conference track for the first time in the conference’s history. Since then, recognizing that A&A is essential to the success of efforts throughout the family planning and SRHR community, it has since been integrated into all conference tracks.
The aim of the Advocacy & Accountability subcommittee is to initiate and coordinate efforts to highlight the role of advocacy and accountability at the global, regional, national and sub-national levels to ensure access to voluntary, quality family planning information, services and supplies in the context of sexual and reproductive health and rights.
The A&A subcommittee will ensure that advocacy and accountability are highlighted throughout the ICFP 2021 in a variety of formats.
The subcommittee is represented by a vast array of actors in the field including local civil society organizations, NGOs, INGOs, local and global initiatives, academic institutions, donor organizations, etc.
If you are interested in knowing more about the ICFP Advocacy & Accountability Subcommittee, please get in touch.
Contact: Kate Barrett
kbarrett@jhu.edu
News & ideas from the Advocacy & Accountability Community
Advocacy & Accountability Community Voices
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Thousands Join Global Call for Universal Access to Reproductive Health at ICFP’s First-ever ‘Not Without FP’ Virtual Forum
Last week, thousands attended a global online forum presented by the Bloomberg School’s Gates Institute on 2-3 February 2021 as part of the upcoming International Conference on Family Planning (ICFP). The forum, “Not Without FP,” aimed to champion the important
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Thousands Join Global Call for Universal Access to Reproductive Health at ‘Not Without FP’ Virtual Forum
International leaders and experts advocate for rights-based family planning, examine threat COVID-19 poses to reproductive health BALTIMORE, Feb. 4, 2021 -- More than 7,000 people attended this week's global online forum, "Not Without FP," to champion the important role family planning plays in
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Why it’s Crucial Not to Limit the Youth’s Access and Use of Family Planning
By Samira Sadeque | IPSNew.net With the COVID-19 pandemic negatively affecting access to Adolescent and Youth Sexual and Reproductive Health (AYSRH) services, it’s imperative governments employ community-based initiatives and peer educators to ensure these services are still available to them.