Population
Population pressures exacerbate many of
the fundamental obstacles to sustainable development: environmental
degradation, poverty, gender inequity, and poor health.
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.
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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Objective:
Increase US government support, both financial and technical,
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
Related
Grants
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 / two
years
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.
Feminist Majority
Foundation - $150,000
Support for the foundation's online Choices Campus
Community, an interactive advocacy project to exponentially
increase pro-choice organizing both domestically and internationally.
IPAS - $300,000
Support to IPAS to carry out policy-oriented activities
designed to build the international acceptance, enthusiasm,
and commitment required to implement safe abortion care
services throughout the world.
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Objectives List
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) - $100,000 over seven months
Support to implement the recommendations of a three-year
strategic plan, funded by WGF, on AFY's international
adolescent reproductive and sexual health program.
International Center
for Research on Women (ICRW) - $40,170
Support for ICRW to advance their efforts to build an
informed and supportive constituency among US policymakers
and the media for the reproductive health needs of adolescents
in developing countries.
Population Concern - $48,646
Support for Population Concern's effort to hold hearings
for key members of the European Parliament and other critical
policymakers to discuss the need for adolescent reproductive
health care in developing countries.
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Objective:
Mainstream emergency contraception in reproductive health
care
Support model introductions of dedicated products and
the dissemination of standardized practice guidelines, and
the dissemination of lessons learned from product introductions
Reproductive
Health Technologies Project (RHTP) - $200,000
over two years
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.
PATH - $71,606
Support for the position of Coordinator for the Consortium
for Emergency Contraception, a collaboration among
eight international organizations working to expand access
to emergency contraception in developing countries.
Population Services
International (PSI) - $90,680
Support for a social marketing program on emergency contraception
in Nigeria, building on a feasibility study which indicated
a need for improving providers' and consumers' overall
knowledge about emergency contraception.
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Objectives List
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
Core support for CRLP to continue its legal and policy
advocacy work promoting women's reproductive rights globally.
In each of its program areas - Promoting Reproductive
Rights, Mobilizing Leadership in Reproductive Health and
Rights, Advocacy on the Reproductive Rights of Young Women,
and Increasing Access to Emergency Contraception - CRLP
seeks to focus on those women with the least access to
reproductive health care: young and low-income women.
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Objectives List
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) - $100,000
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
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.
Equilibres et Population
(E&P) - $100,000
Core support to assist E&P in their efforts to increase
the level of awareness of politicians, journalists and
the general public around the issues of mother and child
health, reproductive health, and population programs with
the objective of generating widespread support and increasing
bilateral and multi-lateral resources for implementing
the Cairo Program of Action.
Int. Planned Parenthood
Federation European Network (IPPF-EN) - $21,040
Support for IPPF-EN, in partnership with Marie Stopes
International's Brussels Office, to expand and intensify
NGO efforts to achieve the inclusion of Sexual and Reproductive
Health and Rights in the new Lome Convention. The project
aims to enhance awareness of African-Caribbean and Pacific
(ACP) and European Union negotiators on the link between
reproductive health and poverty eradication.
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Objectives List
Objective:
Increase US government support, both financial and technical,
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
International
Planned Parenthood Federation, European Network (IPPF)
- $14,858 over three months
Support for Testimonies from the Field, a daily
hour of testimony at the Cairo +5 review meetings, which
aims to communicate to both policymakers and the international
media that failure to meet the commitments of Cairo will
have far-reaching consequences for global sustainable
development and women’s health.
Pathfinder International
- $150,000 over two years
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.
Zero Population Growth
(ZPG) - $100,000
General operating support to ZPG for their efforts to
slow population growth and achieve a sustainable balance
between the Earth's people and its resources. ZPG develops
both advocacy and education programs aimed at influencing
public policies, attitudes, and behavior on national and
global population issues. ZPG advocates a number of strategies
to reduce population pressures, including adoption of
a national population policy, reduction of wasteful consumption,
access to safe and affordable contraceptives, reproductive
choice, international support for basic education and
voluntary family planning programs, and enhanced educational
and employment opportunities for women.
National Audubon
Society - $85,000
Support for Audubon's Population and Habitat Campaign,
specifically the International Population and Family Planning's
Senior Policy Associate. Audubon has developed an extensive
network of educated and committed advocates who actively
support increased funding for US international family
planning and population assistance, and it is the Associate's
role to coordinate the activities of the advocates and
articulate the Program's policy priorities to members
of Congress and their staff.
Planned
Parenhood Federation of America (PPFA) - $100,000
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 - $75,000
Support for the Club's Population Program's Capacity
Building and Training Project, designed to enhance the
capacity of its grassroots network and develop activist
skills to educate members and the public about global
population and consumption issues.
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