Johns Hopkins University
For Support Of The Advance Family Planning Project
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Amount$2,000,000
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Program
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Date Awarded11/12/2012
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Term60.0 Months
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Type of SupportProject
Strategies
Overview
Advance Family Planning (AFP) is a project of the Gates Institute at Johns Hopkins University that seeks to convince policymakers in the developed and developing world to increase funds for family planning, remove policy barriers to family planning, and raise awareness of how family planning increases socioeconomic development and improves health. The initial phase of AFP from 2009–2012 was the largest advocacy project on family planning and reproductive health to date. The targeted advocacy action in focal countries resulted in a number of notable policy gains. For example, advocates in Uganda were able to change regulations to allow village health workers to provide injectable contraception. Hewlett will join the Gates and Packard foundations in supporting the second phase of AFP, from 2012–2017. AFP and its partners will work in nine countries (Burkina Faso, Democratic Republic of Congo, India, Indonesia, Kenya, Nigeria, Senegal, Tanzania, and Uganda) to mobilize and sustain effective family planning advocacy, amplify voices from the global South by cultivating champions of family planning, and document and diffuse best practices in advocacy.
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