International Planned Parenthood Federation Africa Region
For Support Of IPPF ARO’s Abortion Work In Francophone West Africa
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Amount$1,250,000
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Program
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Date Awarded7/10/2023
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Term24.0 Months
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Type of SupportProject
Strategies
Overview
This grant to the International Planned Parenthood Federation’s Africa Regional Office will support a project to increase access to equitable and sustainable abortion care in three Francophone West African countries: Niger, Togo, and Cameroon. IPPF Member Associations, which represent leading national sexual and reproductive health service delivery organizations in each country, will receive a sub-grant as well as technical support to develop their own gender- transformative abortion projects, encompassing improvements in clinical services, advances in their social and policy change capacities, and institutional strengthening. Technical support will come from IPPF’s global abortion strategy and tools, from the staff at the global and regional secretariats and also from the Burkina Faso Member Association, which have more advanced technical capacity in abortion work among their peers in the region. (Strategy: Global Reproductive Equity)
About the Grantee
Grantee Website
www.ippf.org
Address
P.O. Box 30234, Nairobi, 00100, Kenya
Grants to this Grantee
for support of IPPF ARO’s abortion work in Francophone West Africa
This grant to the International Planned Parenthood Federation’s Africa Regional Office will support a project to increase access to equitable and sustainable abortion care in three Francophone West African countries: Niger, Togo, and Cameroon. IPPF Member Associations, which represent leading national sexual and reproductive health service delivery organizations in each country, will receive a sub-grant as well as technical support to develop their own gender- transformative abortion projects, encompassing improvements in clinical services, advances in their social and policy change capacities, and institutional strengthening. Technical support will come from IPPF’s global abortion strategy and tools, from the staff at the global and regional secretariats and also from the Burkina Faso Member Association, which have more advanced technical capacity in abortion work among their peers in the region. (Strategy: Global Reproductive Equity)
for strategic planning and team building for the new West Africa Regional Office
This organizational effectiveness grant to International Planned Parenthood Federation Africa Region will support strategic planning for their new West Africa Regional Office in Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire. IPPF is establishing this new office to better support and connect the Member Associations in this region where the need for sexual and reproductive health services remains very high. This grant will support a strategic planning process as well as the first regional convening of the Member Association to validate the plan and a youth dissemination workshop.
for advancing sexual and reproductive health and rights
The International Planned Parenthood Federation’s Africa Regional Office (IPPF ARO) is based in Nairobi, Kenya, and provides funding and technical support to Federation member associations in forty-two countries. This support would allow IPPF ARO to ensure that sexual and reproductive health and rights remain a priority in Africa’s development agenda beyond 2015, after the Millennium Development Goals and Maputo Plan of Action come to an end. The IPPF ARO team plans to engage African Union Commission leadership and government and civil society decision makers in several different countries in policy dialogue, with a related objective of building the advocacy capacity of the African member associations that IPPF ARO supports.
