Financial statements - International Planned Parenthood Federation

IPPF Financial statements 2012 11
Adolescents and young people
Comprehensive sexuality education (CSE)
In 2012, through support from the Danish and Dutch governments,
IPPF supported Member Associations to develop and implement
evidence-based CSE guidelines and curricula. Member Associations
also developed advocacy strategies to ensure a political framework
is established and fully implemented to support CSE in schools.
IPPF’s Member Association in Togo, for example, successfully
coordinated a joint initiative with the Ministries of Education
and Health and civil society to develop and pilot a new sexuality
education curriculum at primary and secondary level.
At the beginning of 2012, IPPF hosted an expert meeting with
UN agencies, national and international experts, academics and
practitioners to discuss and explore new territories for CSE delivery
and measurement. In 2013 IPPF and DANIDA will hold follow up
meeting to share and explore these issues further at the policy
making level.
IPPF worked in partnership with UNESCO to develop a new
evidence-based tool to assess the quality and comprehensiveness
of sexuality education programmes. As it is piloted and rolled out
in 2013, the tool will generate data that can inform and guide
the development or improvement of CSE programmes and inform
debates and advocacy.
Youth leadership and participation
In 2012, IPPF launched a brand new youth-led SRHR movement,
MYX. In addition to a dedicated youth site and social media
presence, an online sexuality education game, and communications
platform, MYX provided a small fund for youth-led projects.
The first round focused on projects to strengthen regional youth
networks. The second round, launched in late 2012 and continuing
into 2013, focuses on country-level work to empower girls and
develop young women’s leadership.
At the 45th session of the Commission on Population and
Development (CPD), in collaboration with the governments of
Norway, Germany, Kenya, Finland and the Netherlands, IPPF
organized side events with speakers on CSE, young people’s
rights and evolving capacity of the child. IPPF supported young
advocates to participate at the session and make connections with
other youth activists from across the world.
During the Family Planning Summit held in July, our young
advocates co-organized the youth participation side event; two of
IPPF’s young advocates were invited for a special session with
Melinda Gates and David Cameron.
In September 2012 IPPF organized The Emerging Leaders
Summit (ELS) in Oslo to kick-start a multi-year initiative with
outcomes feeding into IPPF’s vision for the future. IPPF brought
together 40 people under the age of 30 from its six regions,
and from diverse communities and fields to develop the Young
Leader’s Roadmap for the 21st Century.
In December IPPF youth volunteers from different parts of the
world attended the Bali Global youth forum on ICPD, which set the
agenda for Youth participation and development going forward.
Youth friendly services
In 2011 IPPF provided 37.4 million sexual and reproductive health
services to young people, maintaining its presence as one of
the main global service providers for young people. To ensure
services are youth friendly, easily accessible and address the real
needs and wants of all young people, we introduced the Quality
Improvement (QI) approach, building on successful Quality of Care
projects implemented across the Federation to implement quality
improvement projects.
IPPF also started a partnership with the Guardian newspaper to
create greater awareness of the importance of addressing sexuality
and sexual rights of young people to achieve sexual health. Articles
and online discussions on sexual and reproductive health issues
were hosted on the Guardian’s site on a weekly basis, and a round
table discussion with experts and young people was documented
in a short film and shown just before the Family Planning Summit.
HIV and AIDS
During 2012, IPPF continued to support Member Associations in
the development of a more comprehensive response to HIV that
promotes our unique organizational position as a leader in linking
sexual and reproductive health and HIV. The HIV strategy is built
around the following key areas:
Maintaining sustainable partnerships
Strategic partnerships with governments, UN agencies and other
civil society organizations are a key part of the IPPF response.
To support our work to meet the needs of those most vulnerable
to HIV, IPPF continued to work closely with both the Network of
Sex Work Projects (NSWP) and the Global Forum on MSM and HIV
(MSMGF). IPPF also sits on the Interagency Task Team (IATT) on
Comprehensive Condom Programming, the IATT on the Prevention
of Mother to Child Transmission, and the Interagency Working
Group on SRH and HIV Linkages. The David Kato Vision & Voice
Award, launched in 2011 and continued in 2012, honours the life
of David Kato, a human rights advocate and activist in Uganda.
IPPF has been the inaugural convenor of the award, working with
a multi-sector steering committee including Sexual Minorities
Uganda (SMUG), the Global Forum on MSM & HIV (MSMGF),
ILGA Europe, Herbert Smith LLP, and Deutsche Gesellschaft für
Interationale Zusammenarbeit GmbH (GIZ). The breadth, depth
and engaged nature of these partnerships ensures that IPPF’s HIV
portfolio remains relevant and responsive to the nuances of the
global HIV response.