International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF) is a global healthcare provider and a leading advocate of sexual and reproductive health (SRH) and rights and has been at the vanguard of delivering comprehensive SRH services, including to poor, marginalized, socially excluded and under-served populations for over 60 years. IPPF is a Federation of 132 Member Associations, 29 national and 2 international Collaborative Partners working in more than 160 countries through more than 40,000 service delivery points located in communities, clinics and outreach services.
IPPF’s strategic focus is on expanding access to and quality of comprehensive sexuality education around the world; building the movement through campaigns to mobilize more support for SRH and rights; expanding access to quality integrated SRH services, including HIV and safe abortion services; and strengthening SRH services in humanitarian settings by improving access before, during and after conflicts and crisis situations.
In 2012, IPPF committed to increasing family planning services, saving the lives of 54,000 women, averting 46.4 million unintended pregnancies and preventing 12.4 million unsafe abortions. IPPF also committed to trebling the number of comprehensive and integrated SRH services provided annually, including 553 million services to adolescents. Additional commitments included establishing technical knowledge centres to train providers of family planning services and developing a compendium of family planning, maternal, child, SRH, and HIV linkages indicators; improving the advocacy capacity of member associations in at least 40 of the 69 Summit priority countries; mobilizing civil society and governments to improve the legislative, policy, regulatory, and financial environment for family planning, and generating support for SRH and rights and affordable pricing for contraceptives.
In 2019, IPPF embarked on an important and extensive programme of organizational change to establish a more effective way of working for IPPF. This has resulted in seven Solutions Centres that are implementing the Business Plan: A Roadmap to Transform IPPF to build the movement, reclaim the space and counter opposition, empower young people and support those affected by crisis. Furthermore, in 2019, IPPF’s General Assembly recommended a revised governance structure that is directly accountable to the membership and people IPPF serves, and a new stream‑based model for unrestricted funding, including MA grants to respond in humanitarian crises.
In 2019, IPPF provided 27 million CYPs, which averted 11.8 million unintended pregnancies and prevented 3.5 million unsafe abortions. IPPF delivered 104.8 million SRH services to young people in 2019, demonstrating our continued commitment to meeting the SRH needs of adolescents and young people.
Between 2016 and 2020, IPPF committed to provide: (1) 103 million (cumulative) Couple Years of Protection averting 36.2 million unwanted pregnancies and 4.1 million unsafe abortions; (2) 630 million (cumulative) sexual and reproductive health services to young people. From 2016 to 2019, IPPF has provided 90.3 million CYPs, representing 88% of commitment; averted 39 million unintended pregnancies (108% of commitment); prevented 11.8 million unsafe abortions (288% of commitment) and reached 363.4 million young people (58% of commitment) with sexual and reproductive health services. IPPF is therefore on track to meet/exceed all the 2015 commitments.
