2002 GRANTS MAIN INDEX • GRANTS & FINANCES

Population

Population pressures exacerbate many of the fundamental obstacles to sustainable development: degradation of renewable natural resources, income disparity, gender inequality and poor maternal and child health. The Fund seeks to achieve population stabilization principally by expanding reproductive health choices for women, thereby reducing unwanted childbearing and improving the lives of women and their families.

Recognizing the scale and complexity of the population issue, the Wallace Global Fund seeks initiatives which expand reproductive choices for women as a way to improve the lives of women and their families and slow the growth of human populations.

Increase access to safe and affordable contraception

• Raise profile of looming shortfall of donated contraceptives

• Assemble stakeholders to deepen donor commitment to purchase contraceptives for international family planning programs and promote donor coordination

European Center for Population and Development (ECPD) – $100,000 a year for up to two years

The ECPD is the fiscal sponsor for the newly-launched Supply Initiative, designed to help developing countries meet their long-term sexual and reproductive health supply needs, at a time when there are shortages globally. The Initiative’s key activities include establishing a web-based tool to coordinate efficient procurement and exchange vital information, and mobilizing resources and raising awareness and commitment among donor country governments.

Promote a universal set of reproductive rights as basic human rights

• Use progress achieved at the International Conference on Population and Development and Beijing Conferences to mobilize civil society and hold governments accountable to commitments

• Support highly leveraged initiatives to eradicate the practice of female genital mutilation

Alan Guttmacher Institute (AGI) – $85,000 per year for up to 2 years

A general support grant to enable AGI to pursue the education of policymakers, the media and the advocacy community on the strong links between sexual and reproductive health and rights and economic and social wellbeing. The plight of Afghan women has shown the world how a denial of these basic rights will impede progress in all other areas of human endeavor.

Institute for Democracy Studies (IDS) – $60,000

Continued support for IDS to research the anti-choice and anti-family planning movement and provide this background information to advocates of women’s reproductive rights to facilitate their work.

Program for Applied Technology in Health (PATH) – $9,858 over six months

To enable PATH's primary program officer for female genital mutilation (FGM) eradication, Dr. Asha Mohamud, to present the findings of her evaluation of years of eradication work in Africa to international donors such as the EU. Funding from these agencies would allow PATH to expand FGM eradication activities, including dissemination of lessons learned to other groups involved in similar activities.

Tostan – $37,720

For an evaluation of a project in the Sudan that replicated a successful program to eradicate female genital mutilation in Senegal. Earlier phases of the research – which took place in both Sudan and Mali – was covered under a previous grant awarded in 1999.

Women’s International Network (WIN) – $20,000

Core support for WIN, in support of the Childbirth Picture Book which has been distributed free of charge around the world, to teach women and men about reproductive health and the medical sequelae caused by Female Genital Mutilation.

Mainstream emergency contraception in reproductive health care

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

• Facilitate introduction of new postcoital contraceptives

• Support measures to lower barriers to access to new contraceptive technologies

Family Health International – $40,000 over 14 months

For general operating support of the International Consortium for Emergency Contraception, which represents a collaboration of 28 international organizations working to expand access to emergency contraception, with a focus on developing countries.

Pacific Institute for Women's Health – $ 30,000

In support of the Latin American Consortium for Emergency Contraception, which has launched a campaign across Latin America to broaden access to emergency contraception and to ensure that EC is presented within the larger framework of women's sexual and reproductive health as a human right.

Expand informed reproductive choices for adolescents

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

Advocates for Youth (AFY) – $200,000

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

Advocates for Youth (AFY) – $30,000 over nine months

For "Promoting International Family Planning Under the New "Powell Doctrine": Exposing Current Contradictions in Administration Policy" which focuses on the breach between the Secretary of State's public support of the use of condoms and the Bush Administration's abstinence-only policy. AFY hopes to portray the "Powell Doctrine" as sensibly mainstream and other Administration policies as fringe.

Improve and increase access to safe abortion

• Support training in safe abortion in key countries

• Support advocacy and research for abortion policy change at the global and regional levels

• Support service expansion and increase public and private sector support for access to safe services

• Support program and policy work to increase access to medical abortion

IPAS – $225,000

Year 2 of support for Action for Change in Abortion Policy, a global initiative aimed at eliminating barriers to women’s access to safe abortion.

Population (cont.)

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 fallen significantly short of 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 from major donors for population and reproductive health programs.

Increase support from multilateral, bilateral, and other donors to international population and reproductive health programs

• Strengthen advocacy efforts within developed countries, the US, Canada, Japan, and Europe by NGOs and international organizations

• Increase information about accessing bilateral and multilateral funds for developing country grantseekers

Action Canada for Population and Development (ACPD) – $40,000

Support for ACPD’s advocacy work to advance action by the Canadian government to meet the commitments that it made in the 1994 Cairo Programme of Action and, in particular, to meet the financial targets set at Cairo. ACPD also serves as the focal point among NGOs in strategies to stop the Bush administration from undermining past gains in the area of reproductive rights.

Deutsche Stiftung Weltbevölkerung – $63,640 per year for up to 2 years

Support for Phase V of DSW's "Guide to European Population Assistance". Since its inception, the Guide has been of great value to both Northern and Southern population NGOs seeking to navigate the complexities of the rules and regulations of European Official Development Assistance, in search of funding. This Guide is due to go online in May 2002.

Deutsche Stiftung Weltbevölkerung (DSW) – $25,000 over eleven months

For the second phase of DSW's project "Euromapping: Is Europe Living Up to the ICPD Promise?" in which DSW is collecting and comparing financial data from 17 European countries to see if their 1994 pledges to increase spending on population and reproductive health activities in the developing world have been backed up with funding. With few exceptions, this has not been the case, and DSW hopes this exercise of bringing the facts to light will help to encourage compliance.

Deutsche Stiftung Weltbevoelkerung (DSW) – $75,000

Year 2 of support for Mobilizing Germany and Europe for the Rio and Cairo Follow up, an effort to increase public funding levels from the German government until 2004 and to engage major German and European NGOs as well as foundations for the Rio +10 and Cairo +10 campaigns.

Equilibres & Populations (E&P) – $100,000

Year II of core support for E&P's work to encourage the French government, the Francophone international organization, and the European Union to increase international aid directed toward projects dealing with population and reproductive health in developing countries.

Grupo de Información en Reproducción Elegida (GIRE) – $50,000

Year 2 of general operating support to GIRE, a progressive regional influence in the Latin American debate on reproductive rights.

International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF) – $10,000 over 16 months

Support for IPPF's transition to new leadership, to increase capacity and develop a new, revitalized organization with the structure and skills to implement a new and ambitious strategic plan.

International Planned Parenthood Federation, European Network (IPPF EN) – $50,000

Year II of support for IPPF EN for Developing the Cotonou Watch and Expanding the DAC Watch.

Marie Stopes International (MSI) – $60,000

Support for MSI’s work to educate high level policy and decisionmakers in the European Union about the key role reproductive health care plays in international development and poverty alleviation, to ensure that sufficient resources are budgeted to provide services and information to the women and men around the world who need them.

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

• Strengthen key grassroots constituencies in the US, including environmental activists, women’s groups, and communities of faith

Feminist Majority Foundation – $100,000

Support for FMF’s online campus leadership program, which educates and mobilizes pro-choice activists at universities across the United States and around the world to safeguard and expand reproductive rights, and to have a long-term impact on U.S. international family planning policies and funding.

Izaak Walton League of America – $25,000

Support for their Sustainable Population Campaign, which educates the public on the link between population growth and consumption patterns, and the pressures on our natural resources. IWLA is working for increased funding for family planning, population education and promoting environmental conservation.

National Wildlife Federation (NWF) – $40,000

Year 2 of support for NWF’s Population and Environment Program and its efforts to achieve a sustainable balance among the world’s population, environmental quality, wildlife habitat, and our finite natural resources.

Pathfinder – $90,000

Year II of support for Pathfinder’s advocacy work to bring the perspective and experience of developing countries to those who make and influence international family planning policy.

Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA) – $80,000

Year 2 of support for Planned Parenthood Global Partners (PPGP), the international public policy and affiliate partnerships initiative of PPFA, the world's largest and oldest voluntary reproductive health care organization.

Population Action International – $35,000

In continued support of PAI's efforts in building financial and policy support for international family planning. Through advocacy, research and media pressure, PAI raises awareness of the need to improve access to reproductive health services worldwide.

Population Connection (formerly Zero Population Growth) – $40,000 per year for up to two years

Continued support for ZPG's work to encourage the Bush Administration to: repeal the Global Gag Rule, which denies U.S. funding to overseas family planning organizations involved in abortion counseling or provision, and to: release the funds being withheld from the United Nations Population Fund.

Sierra Club Foundation – $100,000 a year for up to 2 years.

Support for the Global Population and Environment Program, through which the Sierra Club is educating its members and the general public about the need for the United States government to meet the commitment it made to the international community to support international family planning programs, and thereby protect the global environment and preserve natural resources for future generations by slowing population growth.

U.S. Committee for United Nations Population Fund – $7,500 over four months

For public opinion research on American attitudes regarding the U.N. Population Fund.