Financial statements - International Planned Parenthood Federation

IPPF Financial statements 2012 13
Increasing access to quality and affordable
sexual and reproductive health services is at
the heart of IPPF’s work.
linking sexual and reproductive health and HIV. IPPF is committed
to HIV excellence in the workplace, protecting human rights in
how we work as well as what we promote, and in 2012 developed
a training resource that can be adopted and adapted across the
Federation to support HIV workplace programmes.
Abortion
In 2012, the Abortion programme at IPPF has strengthened and
consolidated efforts to increase access to safe abortion services,
a basic right of any woman faced with an unwanted pregnancy.
The Abortion Strategic Action Plan (ASAP) came into effect on
1 January 2012, providing a framework of indicators and targets
under which IPPF will accelerate progress on the implementation of
the IPPF Strategic Framework, and specifically the goal for universal
recognition of a woman’s right to choose and have access to
safe abortion.
Work has been intensified to support the Member Associations to
deliver on the commitments of the ASAP, including the goal that
95 per cent of Member Associations with clinical facilities will be
providing essential abortion related services, including post-abortion
care, by the end of 2014. Member Associations have been supported
in the development of strategies and work plans for taking forward
the ASAP. Technical support activities including values clarification
workshops and training sessions on comprehensive abortion care
were held with Member Associations across the Federation. These
activities have strengthened commitment to, and built capacity for,
the provision of quality, stigma-free, safe abortion services.
The Global Comprehensive Abortion Care Initiative (GCACI)
continued to make significant progress in twelve focus Member
Associations (Bangladesh, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Ethiopia,
Ghana, India, Indonesia, Kenya, Kyrgyzstan, Nepal, Pakistan
and Sudan), which scaled-up their work to provide quality safe
abortion services through 75 clinics. Through increased investment
and technical expertise, the number of clients provided with
a safe abortion service in the clinics increased by 28 per cent,
from 32,474 in 2011 to 41,411 in 2012. The GCACI programme will
continue to build on these achievements with the dissemination
and replication of good practices approaches.
Coordinated advocacy action took place across the Federation
for the International Day of Action for the Decriminalization
of Abortion on the 28th September, in partnership with the
International Campaign for Women’s Right to Safe Abortion.
IPPF Member Associations and Regional Offices took part in the
campaign, calling for the recognition of woman’s right to decide
the outcome of her pregnancy as a fundamental human right and
highlighting the essential need for access to safe and legal abortion
services in all corners of the globe. Specific activities included
the launch of a video developed by the East & South East Asia
and Oceania Regional Office to highlight the level and impact of
unsafe abortion in the Region and call for the removal of legal and
other barriers.
Access
Increasing access to quality and affordable sexual and reproductive
health (SRH) services is at the heart of IPPF’s strategic framework
and this is reflected in our commitment to doubling services
and to ensuring that at least 80% of its services will reach the
poorest, marginalized, socially excluded and underserved (PMSU)
populations by 2015.
In order to ensure that all Member Associations meet the most
pressing sexual and reproductive health needs of our clients and
that missed opportunities to deliver key services are avoided, IPPF is
rolling out the Integrated Package of Essential Services (IPES) across
the Federation. This package of services, which focuses on client
centred service delivery, includes: counselling, contraception, safe
abortion care, reproductive tract infections/sexually transmitted
infections (STIs), HIV, gynaecology, prenatal and post-natal care,
and sexual and gender-based violence. Compliance with the IPES
forms part of IPPF’s Performance Based Funding approach.
In 2012, IPPF developed an evidence-based Quality Improvement
Toolkit to provide guidance to Member Associations on how to
improve the effectiveness of their service provision. The tool will be
widely disseminated across IPPF through a web-based publication,
webinars and a CD-ROM and will be used as the basis of our
Federation-wide technical assistance efforts on quality of care and
scaling up of services.
With the aim of informing future efforts to expand access to
sexual and reproductive health services, IPPF has also undertaken
a number of activities to gather evidence on best practice
and lessons learned relating to service delivery approaches
and mechanisms to reduce demand-side barriers to access.
Included in this work was a literature review of journal articles
and programmatic documents as well as a Federation-wide
mapping exercise of existing service delivery and health financing
approaches. In addition to shedding light on the strengths and
challenges of each mechanism, this work was used to assess how
each intervention can be used to balance IPPF’s sustainability goals
with those of serving underserved populations.
IPPF continues to work at the forefront of promoting sexual and
reproductive rights at the global and country level. In the last year,
IPPF launched an online sensitization module aimed at orienting
staff and volunteers on how to protect and promote sexual rights.
In addition, the IPPF International Medical Advisory Panel (IMAP)
issued a guidance statement targeted at our Member Associations
on sexual health and rights. Progress will be measured by numbers
of staff and volunteers who have taken the module and by number
of MAs implementing programmes and services aligned with IPPF’s
sexual rights principles. Further monitoring will be linked to the IPPF
accreditation process which has a sexual rights component.