Family Planning, Women's Empowerment, and Population and Societal Impacts Proceedings of a Workshop (2021) / Chapter Skim
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7 Foundation and Agency Programs and Priorities
7 Foundation and Agency Programs and Priorities
Pages 63-76
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WILLIAM AND FLORA HEWLETT FOUNDATION Althea Anderson serves as a Program Officer for the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation's Global Development and Population Program, where she manages research and advocacy grant making for international reproductive health and women's economic empowerment. Anderson also represented the Foundation at the Workshop on Reproductive Health and Global Development in May 2020.
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may be important for changing gender and social norms to support sustained changes in reproductive health outcomes. Anderson shared findings from the Hewlett Foundation's global and Africa regional landscape scans.
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The second area of inquiry is increasing reproductive health demand. The Hewlett Foundation IRH strategy will continue to focus on expanding access to contraception and safe abortion, but also seeks to contribute to demand generation by considering the foundation's role in reaching new contraceptive users.
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Tamara Kreinin added that the Packard Foundation partners global researchers with local researchers, in part to provide mentorship to local researchers with less of a global presence and also to bring global researchers closer to evidence users and policymakers; in that way, she said, Packard Foundation funding is "practical research for advocacy."
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Anderson noted that some policy advocacy investments have shifted to work on changing cultural narratives in the United States, specifically in the American South. UNITED NATIONS POPULATION FUND Benoit Kalasa presented an overview of five programming priorities for the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA)
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This program benefits from many donors and key partnerships, including the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Kalasa said that UNFPA is working on a new vision for this program, which will assess the learnings from the past decade in order to meet the goal of ending unmet family planning needs and preventable maternal mortality by increasing equitable access to high-quality modern contraceptives and life-saving maternal health.
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Contraception and family planning are also part of the foundation's work, and Kreinin recognized the need for a focus on both concepts separately, given that most young people do not want to plan a family but do want contraception. The Packard Foundation considers abortion to be a part of contraceptive services in an ideal world.
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The Packard Foundation has commissioned research on telemedicine in India to better understand meaningful delivery of telemedicine to vulnerable populations. The foundation is also committed to self-care and self-administered or over-the-counter contraceptive services, including medication abortions and contraceptives through delivery mechanisms such as Sayana Press.
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For example, when the foundation discovered that some of its work in India was not reaching the poorest communities, it intentionally shifted its work to reach those communities and further adapted the work to maintain quality in the new context. The Packard Foundation also funds reproductive justice groups in the American South and aims to add funding that will support dual outcomes related to equity and justice as well as reproductive health.
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To make and act on voluntary, informed family planning decisions, Abdur-Rahman said individuals must have access to accurate family planning information, be able to choose whether to use contraceptives, and have access to a range of contraceptive methods and services. The goal of PRH's empowerment work is to engage with individuals, families, communities, and health systems to improve both gender equality outcomes and to help women, men, and couples achieve their reproductive intentions.
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One such intervention in Kenya, Addressing Reproductive Coercion in Health Settings (ARCHES) , was a pilot clinic-based model that enabled providers to identify reproductive coercion and intimate partner violence among women seeking family planning counseling, as well as provide targeted voluntary family planning counseling and referrals for follow-up support.
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. BILL & MELINDA GATES FOUNDATION Ann Starrs shared that the family planning strategy at the Bill & M elinda Gates Foundation has undergone a year-long refresh that is slated for completion by early 2021.
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The second element is to optimize family planning interventions on both the supply and demand side to address barriers that prevent women and young people from making and acting on decisions for their reproductive intentions. This effort revolves around providing knowledge about contraceptive methods and building supportive family, community, and broader contexts to facilitate decision-making.
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76 FAMILY PLANNING, WOMEN'S EMPOWERMENT, AND IMPACTS Starrs also noted that historically, much of the Gates Foundation's work has been driven out of Seattle. Moving forward, although Seattle will remain a central location, country-specific strategies in focus geographies -- especially those that have a country office -- will be more clearly anchored in those countries.
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