Ipas
For General Operating Support
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Amount$3,000,000
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Program
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Date Awarded7/15/2019
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Term24 Months
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Type of SupportGeneral Support/Organization
Strategies
Overview
Ipas works to improve the availability of safe abortion and contraceptive services in more than 15 countries through training and policy advocacy. Ipas works to support access of women and girls to high-quality abortion and contraceptive care by making these services available, accessible, and affordable.
About the Grantee
Grantee Website
www.ipas.org
Address
P.O. Box 9990, Chapel Hill, NC, 27515, United States
Grants to this Grantee
for general operating support
Throughout its nearly forty-year history, which includes twenty-five years of support from the Hewlett Foundation, Ipas has worked with health systems and policymakers to promote a public health approach to unsafe abortion, a major threat to women’s health and lives. With this unrestricted funding, Ipas would continue to increase women’s ability to exercise their sexual and reproductive rights worldwide by training health providers and advocating for policies that permit the provision of safe abortion. Africa is Ipas’s highest-priority region, as the risk of death from unsafe abortion in some parts of sub-Saharan Africa is higher than in any other region in the world. According to the World Health Organization, about half the world’s deaths from unsafe abortion each year occur in sub-Saharan Africa.
