Margaret Pyke Trust

In support of the Every Woman Every Child updated Globa Strategy for Women's, Children's and Adolescents' Health (2016-2030) Margaret Pyke Trust has undertaken the following:

Education & Training
The Trust has trained 2,674 UK based clinicians, of which 320 were trained as trainers. Working on the conservative basis that only half of these 320 clinical trainers (160) undertook merely one training event benefiting only 10 other clinicians, the Trust has comfortably exceeded its commitment to train 3,200 UK based clinicians between 2016 and the end of 2019. The Trust has trained 1,153 doctors, nurses, midwives, community health workers, hospital staff and nursing students in FP2020 Focus Countries. Additionally, the Trust’s family planning training methodology (“USHAPE”), designed specifically for the circumstances of rural Uganda, has been accredited by the Uganda Protestant Medical Bureau. USHAPE is being implemented by organisations other than the Trust, but the Trust lacks the resources to measure the additional clinicians trained using its USHAPE methodology.

Program and Service Delivery
The Trust has exceeded its commitment on Program and Service Delivery, implementing the following programs:

1. USHAPE (Uganda Sexual Health and Public Education) at Bwindi Impenetrable Forest National Park, Uganda. The project improves family planning services, coupled with bespoke cascaded outreach into the surrounding community, to reduce unmet need for family planning and improve awareness of local environmental conservation issues.
2. An EU funded project entitled Nndwakhulu (The big fight is on!) in Sinthumule- Kutama District, Limpopo Province South Africa addressed the severe human rights violations in this remote rural area, including a lack of information on SRHR and absence of quality SRHR service provision.
3. A Re Itireleng (Let’s do it ourselves) implemented in the rural area of Groot Marico, Northwest province South Africa, addressed the cross-sectoral development challenges of SRHR, public health, lack of sustainable livelihoods and environmental degradation in this disadvantaged community.
4. Healthy wetlands for the cranes and people of Kabale, Uganda. A project integrating USHAPE actions with conservation livelihood actions of the International Crane Foundation (see video).

Issue and Policy Advocacy
The Trust has undertaken advocacy activities to promote the importance of SRHR and family planning as a multi-sectoral issue to national policymakers (UK Government departments such as DFID, Defra, and FCO), regional policymakers (EU Commission and Parliament) and global environmental policy making bodies (International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)). The Trust’s effective advocacy to the environmental sector in particular, has meant that in addition to being the only member of the IUCN with 50 years of family planning expertise, the Trust has been successful in presenting the first ever motion at the IUCN on the importance of removing barriers to family planning to empowering sustainable conservation, in addition to empowering women and girls (to be voted on at the World Conservation Congress in January 2021). In addition to past achievements, a further milestone has been leading the Thriving Together campaign, bringing together 159 organizations from the SRHR and conservation sectors which all agree that removing barriers to family planning is fundamental to human and planetary health.