Objective: Improve access to safe abortion

Support training in MVA in key countries; support advocacy and research for abortion policy change at the global and regional levels and in key developing countries with potential for regional impact

Grupo de Información en Reproducción Elegida (GIRE) - $125,000 (second year of two-year grant)

General operating support to GIRE, the Information Group on Reproductive Choices in Mexico, a progressive regional influence in the Latin American debate on reproductive rights. GIRE provides access to the most current reproductive rights and health information for Mexican health professionals and society, establishes a more balanced debate over reproductive rights in the region, and improves the mechanisms for enforcing laws that improve reproductive rights.

IPAS - $300,000 (second year of two-year grant)

Continued support for IPAS’ global policy initiative to build the international acceptance and commitment necessary to implement safe abortion care services throughout the world.  The policy initiative supports and strengthens not only IPAS activities, but also those of their colleagues in the field.  This core support grant provides IPAS with the staff and infrastructure necessary to respond to policy opportunities when they arise.

IPAS - $29,899

Support for IPAS, with AVSC, to convene “Taking Postabortion Care (PAC) Services to Scale,” an international workshop in Kenya aimed at expanding PAC services to the national level as a way to reduce maternal mortality and morbidity.

IPAS - $40,000

Support for IPAS’s in-country costs to convene a national two-day conference in India in September to respond to the call for safe abortion strategies outlined in India’s recently adopted National Population Policy.

Objective: Expand informed reproductive choices for adolescents

Support advocacy for policy change at the regional level in order to improve the quality of reproductive health information and services available to adolescents

Advocates for Youth (AFY) - $200,000 per year for up to three years

Support for AFY’s International Program’s three-year plan, “Improving Access to Youth-Friendly Contraceptive Services in the Developing World.”

Choice USA - $80,000

Support for Choice USA’s International Program, which promotes implementation of the ambitious ICPD Programme of Action. The Program integrates international information and perspectives on reproductive health into its campaign of pro-choice education, activist training, leadership development, grassroots organizing targeted to the next generation.

International Center for Research on Women (ICRW) - $75,098

Support for ICRW’s policy communications and advocacy efforts to build education of US policymakers on the need to increase US support for the reproductive health, educational, and economic needs of adolescents in developing countries.

Objective: Mainstream emergency contraception in reproductive health care

Support model introductions of dedicated products and the dissemination of standardized practice guidelines, and dissemination of lessons learned from product introductions

Program for Appropriate Technology in Health (PATH) - $71,548

Support for the Coordinator position for the Consortium for Emergency Contraception (CEC), a collaboration of more than 20 international organizations working to expand access to emergency contraception in developing countries.

Reproductive Health Technologies Project (RHTP) - $100,000 (second year of two-year grant)

Core support for RHTP to continue its mission of introducing new issues in reproductive health to the public debate. RHTP was originally created as a forum where a diverse cross-section of leaders concerned with reproductive health and rights could come together on common ground and unite behind an agenda of mutual interests. RHTP advances the ability of every woman of any age to achieve full reproductive freedom with access to the safest, most effective, appropriate and acceptable technologies.

Objective: Promote a universal set of reproductive rights as basic human rights

Use progress achieved at the ICPD and Beijing Conferences to mobilize civil society and hold governments accountable to universal standards

Center for Reproductive Law and Policy (CRLP) - $80,000 (second year of a two-year grant)

Continued Core Support  for CRLP’s legal and policy advocacy work – both domestic and international - promoting women’s reproductive rights.  Because U.S. anti-abortion politics can influence the stands taken by federal policymakers in both national and international arenas, CRLP believes domestic issues can have critical repercussions around the world.  Globally, few NGOs are involved in legal and policy change relating to reproductive health and rights.  CRLP seeks to stimulate worldwide reform of women’s reproductive rights through creation of regional networks of NGOs that will develop strategies to address the issues of access to quality reproductive health care services, abortion, and eradication of female genital mutilation.  This year they have also launched a major new campaign on access to emergency contraception.

It is widely acknowledged that the unmet demand for family planning and reproductive health services cannot be satisfied without the mobilization of significant additional resources. Unfortunately, governments and other donors have yet to meet the targets set in 1994 at the International Conference on Population and Development. Therefore, WGF is supporting efforts to build diverse constituencies that will advocate for increased foreign assistance for population and reproductive health.

The Fund seeks initiatives which increase foreign assistance for population and reproductive health programs from major aid donors.

Objective: Increase public awareness of the impact of human population growth on key environmental problems

Support major new studies and information dissemination on linkages between population growth and environmental/health indicators

Objective: Increase support from bilateral donor countries to international population and reproductive health programs

Strengthen advocacy efforts within developed countries by NGOs and international organizations; demystify grantmaking by bilateral donors for prospective developing country grantees

Deutsche Stiftung Weltbevoelkerung (DSW) - $75,000 (second year of two-year grant)

Core support to the German Foundation for World Population (DSW) to continue its efforts to implement the Cairo Programme of Action in Germany and abroad. The core support will support the following activities and objectives: increase the information and education work on population and sustainable development in Germany/Europe; mobilize public and private resources and channel available but under-utilized European Union funds into ICPD-projects in developing countries; build alliances with other national and international key institutions in population and sustainable development; and expand DSW’s overseas portfolio in further implementing integrated projects in developing countries.

Deutsche Stiftung Weltbevoelkerung (DSW) - $199,820

Support for the fourth phase of DSW’s European Resources Guide, providing information on European funding instruments for population and reproductive health projects. The Guide will facilitate NGOs worldwide in accessing bilateral funding sources. The Guide is offered in a print version, as well as on-line at http://www.eurongos.org/guide.htm

Equilibres & Population (E&P)- $100,000

Core support for E&P, a French NGO  dedicated to increasing the level of awareness of population, development, and reproductive health issues among journalists, politicians, and the public.

Population Action International (PAI) - $28,720 over three months

Support for PAI’s work with the Interim Working Group on Reproductive Health Commodity Security to research and eventually make recommendations regarding the projected shortfall and distribution problems of contraceptives in the developing world.

Population Action International (PAI) - $100,000 over ten months

Support for “Meeting the Challenge: Securing Contraceptive Supplies,” a proposal from the Interim Working Group (IWG) on contraceptive security (including PAI, John Snow, Inc., Program for Appropriate Technology in Health, and Wallace Global Fund) to support the publication of its research, a global meeting, and a series of follow-on activities concerning the issue of reproductive health commodity security.

US Committee for UNFPA - $60,000

Support for the “Face to Face Campaign,” a public awareness and advocacy campaign developed by UNFPA and co-sponsored by the International Planned Parenthood Federation. The campaign’s goal is to build awareness of the need for increased funding for population assistance both internationally and domestically. The Fund’s support is earmarked for activities in Germany and France.

US Committee for UNFPA - $10,000

Support for the participation of six representatives from European NGOs in the technical working group of UNFPA on contraceptive security.

Objective: Increase support, both financial and technical, from the US government to international population and reproductive health programs

Strengthen key grassroots constituencies in the United States, including environmental activists, population and family planning supporters and communities of faith

Alan Guttmacher (AGI) - $100,000 per year for up to two years

Support for “Using Information and Analysis to Stimulate Action and Understanding Regarding International Policy Issues,” a set of initiatives within AGI aimed at improving the United States’ support for international reproductive health and family planning programs.

Feminist Majority Foundation (FMF) - $125,000

Support for “Choices Campus Community: On-line Campus Leadership Program,” a fully interactive online community with the ability to grow pro-choice organizing domestically and worldwide.

National Audubon Society (NAS) - $85,000

Support for Audubon’s Population and Habitat Program, which provides public education for citizens and policy makers around the US on the linkages between population growth and the environment.

Pathfinder International - $75,000 (second year of two-year grant)

Support for staffing and associated expenses to expand Pathfinder International’s public affairs and advocacy work. Pathfinder is committed to collaborating with partner organizations to restore and increase the US commitment to international family planning and reproductive health as pledged at the Cairo International Conference on Population and Development in 1994. The unique contribution Pathfinder can make to the effort is to ensure that the field perspective is consistently represented in discussions of policy, both to inform policy development and to show the impact of international support for family planning.

Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA) - $100,000 (second year of two-year grant)

Support for Planned Parenthood Global Partners (PPGP), the international advocacy arm of PPFA, the world's largest and oldest voluntary reproductive health care organization. Grant funds will support technical assistance and materials to conduct a public education and grassroots organizing strategy in the US around international family planning.

The Sierra Club Foundation - $90,000 per year for up to two years

Support for the Sierra Club’s Population Program and its agenda to both support family planning programs that benefit women and to safeguard the environment.

United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) - $50,000 over six months

Support for UNFPA’s Washington, DC, office and representative in an effort to educate the public and policy-makers about the importance of continued US support for UNFPA’s programs worldwide.

Zero Population Growth (ZPG) - $80,000

Core support for ZPG’s work to advocate for international and domestic family planning programs, a national population policy, and legislation requiring health insurance companies to cover FDA-approved contraceptives.