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Authors: Photos: IPPF/Prashant Panjiar/India Barbara Dockalova Katie Lau Layout: worldaccent.com Heather Barclay Alison Marshall Contents

Why link Goals and 2020 commitments? 2

What are the Sustainable Development Goals? 3

What is Family Planning 2020? 4

How do the SDGs and FP2020 complement each other and what to advocate for? 5

Resources 8 2 Sustainable Development Goals and Family Planning 2020

Why link Sustainable Development Goals and Family Planning 2020 commitments?

Background Benefits

Governments have agreed a range of Drawing your government’s attention commitments to advance sustainable to the commitments they have development, including promoting made around the same issue has women’s and girls’ health and many benefits. protecting human rights for all. Global „„Since sexual and reproductive health commitments are important as they and rights (SRHR) and family planning set a framework for funding to flow have been prioritised more than once, towards a particular issue and influence it demonstrates their importance; national development strategies and programming. As advocates, „„Governments can make optimum we can use global commitments to use of the same funding to achieve encourage coordination across national multiple commitments and the development plans, to push for funding same indicators for monitoring and to increase political buy-in. and reporting;

„„Strengthens the inclusion of family This factsheet will focus on the linkages planning within the broader between the Sustainable Development Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn, Goals (SDGs) and Family Planning 2020 Child and Adolescent health (FP2020) commitments. (RMNCAH) and Universal Health Coverage (UHC) agendas;

„„Prevents duplication of effort, especially if you have limited and time and if you are speaking to the same government representative;

„„Strengthens your advocacy message for policy, budget and implementation commitments to SRHR;

„„Helps coordinate civil society efforts to advance SRHR and family planning. Sustainable Development Goals and Family Planning 2020 3

What are the Sustainable Development Goals?

The Sustainable Development Goals Goal 3 Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages (SDGs) are a framework of 17 goals and 169 targets across social, economic Targets: and environmental areas of sustainable 3.1 By 2030, reduce the global maternal mortality ratio to less than 70 per 100,000 development, which live births (UN) Member States have committed to 3.7 By 2030, ensure universal access to sexual and reproductive health-care services, making a reality over the next 15 years. including for family planning, information and , and the integration of reproductive health into national strategies and programmes The SDGs succeed the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), which 3.8 Achieve universal health coverage, including financial risk protection, access to quality expired at the end of 2015, but are essential health-care services and access to safe, effective, quality and affordable essential much broader in scope. The SDGs medicines and vaccines for all form part of the 2030 Agenda for Goal 5 Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls Sustainable Development1 which UN Member States adopted at the UN Targets: Sustainable Development Summit in 5.6 Ensure universal access to sexual and reproductive health and September 2015. The 2030 Agenda is an as agreed in accordance with the Programme of Action of the International Conference important political consensus document on and Development and the Beijing Platform for Action and the outcome declaring UN Member States’ intent documents of their review conferences to work collectively towards achieving people-centred sustainable development over the next 15 years. This does not mean that only these goals know where there are gaps in services, The 2030 Agenda includes many targets are directly related to family planning. and which groups are in the most need. and references to gender equality and Most goals are linked to family planning. women’s and girls’ empowerment, It will be impossible to end and We support the following SDG indicator sexual and reproductive health and hunger (goals 1 and 2), ensure quality on family planning: reproductive rights which go well education for all (goal 4), promote „„Percentage of women of beyond the commitments of the MDGs. sustained economic growth (goal 8) reproductive age who have their without ensuring that every women has need for family planning satisfied The SDGs make specific references to access to quality, rights-based family with modern methods. family planning in Goal 3 on Health planning services. and Goal 5 on Gender Equality and Access to available, acceptable and good Women’s Empowerment. All of the targets in the 2030 Agenda quality modern contraceptives is an will be measured at a global, regional essential element of reproductive health. and national level, through the indicator framework. There will need to be consistent monitoring of whether implementation is reaching marginalized population groups. For this, availability of high-quality data disaggregated by relevant criteria, such as sex, age (including for the age group 10–14 years), geographic location, income, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity and disability, needs to be ensured. This will make sure that governments

1 See www.youtube.com/watch?v=-yL7VP4-kP4 4 Sustainable Development Goals and Family Planning 2020

What is Family Planning 2020?

Family Planning 2020 (FP2020) is a global Each FP2020 country has partnership that supports the rights made different commitments, of women and girls to decide, freely, which include: and for themselves, whether, when, „„Financial such as increasing budget and how many children they want to allocation specifically for family have. FP2020 works with governments, planning or adding a budget line civil society, multilateral organizations, for family planning in the health donors, the private sector, and the budget and implementing costed research and development community plans for reproductive health (RH) to enable 120 million additional women including family planning in national, and women and girls to have access to sub‑national, and district plans. rights based family planning services and supplies by 2020. „„Policy and Political such as identifying barriers to access for FP2020 has been a ‘game changer’ individuals and couples, such as in successfully increasing global and adolescents, rural or national commitment to family planning, marginalized groups, and committing and has created a unique platform to address these. and for the global family „„Programme and Service Delivery planning community. The FP2020 such as making family planning initiative has brought together national services available to young people in governments, donors, the private youth centres or ensuring there is a sector and civil society to ensure that range of contraceptives available. sustainable family planning programmes will make a lasting change. You can see what your government has committed by visiting FP2020 is a partnership that encourages www.familyplanning2020.org/ country-level on family planning commitments. goals. FP2020 has prioritized 69 focus countries2 to accelerate progress, including 36 commitment-making countries which are working to expand access to family planning commodities and services.

2 See www.familyplanning2020.org/entities Sustainable Development Goals and Family Planning 2020 5

How do the SDGs and FP2020 complement each other and what to advocate for?

Family planning is one aspect of the How? the SDGs, including full financing targets around universal access to from domestic and international sexual and reproductive health found In using FP2020 to fulfil the SDGs and resources. Advocates may want to in the SDGs (3.7 and 5.6). If your vice versa, you may want to consider: recall investment in family planning country is a FP2020 focus country or as a ‘best buy intervention’ in commitment maker, you can leverage „„Not reinventing the wheel! Use development and health outcomes; the SDGs as a way of increasing the existing policies, programmes and „„Sustain, expand and lead existing political priority of family planning, as architecture for family planning, SRHR networks towards linking well as ensuring the two SDG targets and identify opportunities to up with other issue-based are being fulfilled. You can also use the strengthen and align family planning coalitions doing SDG advocacy Costed Implementation Plans (CIPs) – and the SDGs instead of creating through common platforms on multi-year roadmaps designed to help a parallel structure. Align the sustainable development. governments achieve family planning policy recommendations; goals – to strengthen your advocacy for „„Identify and explore opportunities Examples of how to link FP2020 advocacy the implementation of both the SDG to work in partnership with FP2020 with SDG advocacy are shown below, and FP2020 commitments. Focal Points and key partners for to serve as suggestions. An important increased alignment and coordination starting point is to identify your FP2020 Who? on FP2020 and the SDG targets, focal point and other key targets working including national family planning in the Ministry of Health, Ministry of champions;3 FP2020 works through a focal point Finance, Ministry for Women or Gender network at country level consisting of „„Work with key relevant government Equality, Ministry of Planning and government representatives, for example ministries – the Ministry of Health, Development and other relevant decision from the Ministry of Health, and/or Ministry of Planning, Ministry of makers. There may also be a SDG donors such as UNFPA, USAID and Finance, Ministry for Women or National Technical Committee in country. the UK Department for International Gender Equality and other ministries You should find out if you can input, Development (DFID). In this structure, the – to ensure greater alignment, and or talk to key allies in the Committee to government and donor agencies work in appropriate resources to implement advocate for action. partnership to bolster national strategies national priorities; for achieving FP2020 goals and family „„Map the links between the SDG planning programmes, to align resources targets, national family planning behind implementation of national plans including FP2020 commitments, priorities, and coordinate in-country CIPs, RMNCAH plans and advocate around family planning. for alignment in expanding family planning access; At the national level, the Ministry of Health will typically play an important „„Ensure civil society participation in the role in coordination of family planning planning, validating, monitoring and programmes and budgets. However accountability of CIPs; an important the Ministry of Planning, Ministry of way to accelerate progress towards Finance and other ministries are playing family planning goals, including an increasingly important role in national FP2020 and the SDGs; financing and resourcing plans for family „„Encourage the scaling up of planning and reproductive health. sustainable investments as a critical component in achieving

3 See www.joiningvoices2020.org/champions 6 Sustainable Development Goals and Family Planning 2020

Country FP2020 pledge Related SDG target Possible advocacy action and rationale

Solomon The Solomon Islands commit Target 3.7 „„identify if progress has been made towards Islands to make family planning a the FP2020 pledge Integrating FP and RH priority under the reproductive programmes into the National „„provide guidance to the government on what health program section of the Health Strategic Plans ensures elements of family planning and reproductive government’s National Health action, political will and health should be included in National Plans to Strategic Plans for 2006–2015. funding for these programmes. achieve the SDGs Integration prioritizes action „„explain that action on this issue can achieve to ensure universal access to the government’s commitment to at least two SRH services. global frameworks (SDGs and FP2020) „„reach out to champions and allies to coordinate advocacy messages

Indonesia The government commits to Target 3.7 „„identify if the financial pledge has been met maintaining its investment through budget tracking Increasing funding and in finances for family development of a policy „„identify and share with the government the planning programs, which has framework for family planning gap in implementation and funding increased from US $65.9 million will result in increased in 2006 to US $263.7 million „„explain that action on this issue can achieve access to the family planning in 2012. The government the government’s commitment to at least two elements of SRH services for has reallocated resources to global frameworks more individuals. the most densely populated „„reach out to champions and allies to provinces and districts coordinate advocacy messages where the total fertility rate (TFR) is high. They are also concentrating on the harder to reach populations in rural areas and smaller islands.

Cameroon The Government of Cameroon Target 3.8 and 3.7 „„identify if the pledge has been met commits to ensuring Ensuring the commodities „„provide guidance to your government contraceptive security to avoid and trained health workers to on health workers’ training to ensure stock outs, providing the full deliver family planning and rights-based services range of contraceptives by contraceptives will expand ensuring quality services, „„explain that action on this issue can achieve access to services. including family planning the government’s commitment to at least two counselling, training, and global frameworks supervision of health workers, „„reach out to champions and allies to and ensuring the government’s coordinate advocacy messages and its partners’ accountability for funding family planning.

Togo The government’s objectives Target 3.7 and 5.6 „„identify if there has been progress towards are to improve the access of the pledge Improving access and services local populations to family is directly in accordance with „„advocate for collaborative space to ensure planning services; scale up the International Conference on rights based family planning services reach best practice interventions in Population and Development local populations reproductive health and family Programme of Action (ICPD planning service delivery. „„position civil society organisations as having PoA), which supports 5.6 to the and capacity to expand access ensure universal access to SRH to local populations and RR. „„explain that action on this issue can achieve the government’s commitment to at least two global frameworks „„provide technical support in piloting best practice examples in other regions Sustainable Development Goals and Family Planning 2020 7

Country FP2020 pledge Related SDG target Possible advocacy action and rationale

Bangladesh The Government of Bangladesh Target 5.6 „„identify if there has been progress towards commits to increasing the pledge Improving access and services adolescent-friendly sexual for adolescents is directly „„support adolescents and young people to be and reproductive health and in accordance with the advocates for themselves family planning services, International Conference on providing adolescent sexual „„offer guidance to the government on what Population and Development and reproductive health adolescent-friendly services should include Programme of Action (ICPD services at one-third of PoA), which achieves 5.6 to „„explain that action on this issue can achieve maternal newborn and child ensure universal access to SRH the government’s commitment to at least two health centers. Bangladesh and RR. global frameworks will monitor to ensure quality of care is strengthened, „„reach out to champions and allies to including informed consent and coordinate advocacy messages choice and to support women to continue use of family planning methods…

Mauritania Mauritania’s national action Target 5.6 „„identify if there are any gaps in the plan on family planning national plan Enabling civil society to was developed in 2013 participate in decision making „„identify the progress towards the national through a participatory and about contraceptive access plan and share the gaps if applicable inclusive process and outlines and programming ensures Mauritania’s priorities for „„explain that action on this issue can achieve appropriate government action family planning and creates the government’s commitment to at least two to meet the needs of citizens, a framework for partnership global frameworks civil society participation is and mobilization. also a clear component of the „„reach out to champions and allies to Mauritania commits to ICPD PoA. coordinate advocacy messages implement the plan for the period of 2014–2018.

Nepal The Government is fulfilling Target 3.7 „„identify the group in the Ministry of Health its newly developed National (i.e. Family Health Division) who developed Investing resources in family Family Planning Costed the plan planning will accelerate Implementation Plan progress towards universal „„position your organisation with (2015–2021) which will remove access to sexual and technical knowledge in adolescent sexual barriers to family planning reproductive health. The Costed reproductive health faced by young people. Implementation Plan will „„offer guidance and recommendations to enhance FP services for the government and decision makers on the adolescents and introduce implementation of the plan including on communication and behaviour adolescent-friendly services change approaches. „„collate meaningful input to decision making from youth groups „„support frequent communication and coordination by government with stakeholders on the delivery of plan 8 Sustainable Development Goals and Family Planning 2020

Resources

The resources below contain more 5. Sustainable Development international sources. in-depth information about the SDGs Goals: A SRHR CSO guide for www.africanhealthstats.org/cms and FP2020, including projects that National Implementation work on FP2020 as well as valuable data The purpose of this paper is to set 9. Ouagadougou Partnership sources that can be used as evidence out what the new SDGs mean for The Partnership was launched in on maternal/child health. CSOs working on SRHR and how Burkina Faso in 2011 by nine Western the SDGs can be used to push African countries with a focus on 1. Family Planning 2020 for progress at a national level. accelerating progress in the use of www.familyplanning2020.org/ It details those targets that are family planning services in Western Read its annual progress report at: relevant to our work, looks at how African countries. Over the course progress.familyplanning2020.org/ they relate to existing programmes of five years, the partnership made page/introduction/executive-summary and commitments and suggests great strides in providing rights-based ways to ensure that they are family planning to reduce the unmet 2. United Nations Sustainable implemented. It describes specific need. By the end of 2015, the nine Development hub actions that national advocates may Member States had reached out to sustainabledevelopment.un.org want to consider taking to drive 1.18 million additional contraceptive progress on the development and users which is above their 1 million 3. Joining Voices implementation of national plans, target. The Ouagadougou Partnership This is an IPPF advocacy project to play a role in monitoring and works closely with FP2020 and that aims to safeguard and accountability, and to support the other initiatives. strengthen financial commitments measurement of progress. partenariatouaga.org to reproductive health and family www.ippf.org/resource/Sustainable- planning, and reinforce political Development-Goals-SRHR-CSO- 10. Family Planning: A Key to Unlocking leadership on universal access guide-national-implementation the SDGs through strengthening civil society Short animated video produced by voices. Joining Voices has produced 6. International Planned Parenthood K4Health that illustrates how family country fact sheets called ‘Spotlight Federation’s Financing for planning has a ripple effect across on FP’ for 10 countries. These SRHR resources all the 17 Goals: www.youtube.com/ measure the progress governments This is a hub of IPPF’s resources and watch?v=DBlvWnzNeks have made on FP2020 and make briefings on financing for SRHR recommendations about what needs including the Global Financing Facility 11. PMA2020 to be improved. and advocacy. Performance Monitoring and www.joiningvoices2020.org www.ippf.org/search/all/financing Accountability 2020 (PMA2020) uses innovative mobile technology 4. Track20 7. Demographic Health Survey Program to routinely gather data on family Tracks progress of the global The Demographic and Health planning and water, sanitation and FP2020 initiative which aims to Surveys (DHS) Program has collected, hygiene. Data are collected at both provide an additional 120 million analyzed, and disseminated household and facility levels via women and girls in the world’s accurate and representative data on mobile phones through a network poorest countries with access to population, health, HIV, and nutrition of female Resident Enumerators voluntary family planning services through more than 300 surveys in stationed throughout the country. by 2020. The strategy of Track20 over 90 countries. In real-time, data are validated, is to support national efforts in www.dhsprogram.com/ aggregated and put into tables and participating FP2020 countries to Where-We-Work graphs, making results more quickly collect, analyze and use data to track available to stakeholders as compared progress in family planning and to 8. Health Stats to a paper-and-pencil survey. develop effective program strategies This is an innovative data site that PMA2020 supports the overarching and plans. allows you to chart, map and compare goals of FP2020 and its working www.track20.org key health indicators across all group on performance, monitoring 54 member states. All and accountability. data is taken from officially-recognised pma2020.org Sustainable Development Goals and Family Planning 2020 9 Published in June 2016 by the International Planned Parenthood Federation

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