Financial Statements - International Planned Parenthood Federation

IPPF Financial Statements 2009 11
Involving people living with HIV:
IPPF has worked alongside its core
partners to drive the People Living
with HIV Stigma Index, developing
a community research model
to document how people have
experienced – and have been able
to challenge and overcome – stigma
and discrimination relating to HIV.
In 2009, IPPF supported the rollout
of the initiative in the UK and in
a number of countries around the
world. IPPF continues to promote
these values internally as an employer.
In 2009, as a directive from the
Director General’s Office and linked to
the importance of HIV as a workplace
issue, IPPF+ was established to
promote and provide a supportive
working environment for people living
with HIV throughout the Federation.
Its mission is to foster a culture of
respect within IPPF that welcomes,
supports and meaningfully involves
staff and volunteers who are living
with HIV in the workplace.
Abortion
Increasing access to comprehensive
abortion care as part of an integrated
sexual and reproductive health
package remained a core function
of the IPPF Member Associations.
During the year, special emphasis was
placed on high quality safe abortion
service delivery at Member Association
clinics. Through monitoring visits
and remote technical assistance, IPPF
promoted good practice on clinic
set up, counselling, manual vacuum
aspiration and medical abortion
procedures, infection prevention,
referral and follow-up systems,
disseminating medically accurate
abortion information materials and
working with the community. It is
expected that these initiatives will
contribute positively to meeting
the reproductive health needs of
women in the communities we serve.
As abortion-related materials in Arabic
are hard to obtain, Arabic translations
of the ‘First Trimester Abortion
Guidelines and Protocols: Surgical
and Medical Procedures’ and ‘Access
to Safe Abortion Tool for Assessing
Legal and Other Obstacles’ were
disseminated to Member Associations
and medical practitioners.
Supported by the global project
on comprehensive abortion care,
the Member Associations in Armenia,
Bangladesh, Burkina Faso, India,
Indonesia, Mongolia, Morocco and
Nepal provided over 27,000 clients
with safe abortion related services
during 2009 – this was in addition
to the ongoing abortion services
being provided by a number of other
Associations. The clinical management
information system (CMIS), is an
important component of this project,
and was expanded to two further
clinics in Indonesia. Its installation
was used as an opportunity to
provide hands-on training for staff
in participating Member Associations
and Regional Offices. Moreover,
the Association in Nepal successfully
expanded the CMIS to two new clinics
with only remote consultancy support.
Following installation of the system,
all levels of staff at the clinic and
the Member Association are being
supported to use the data collected
for programme management
purposes. As the system becomes
increasingly popular, every effort
will be made to expand it across the
Federation as a tool for improving data
collection and overall quality of care.
Access
Increasing access to sexual and
reproductive health (SRH) services
is at the heart of IPPF’s Strategic
Framework. IPPF continues to work
at the forefront of promoting sexual
and reproductive rights and providing
good quality SRH services, especially
concerning sexual education,
adolescents’ sexual and reproductive
health, abortion and access to good
quality services for poor, marginalized,
underserved or socially excluded
clients. In delivering these areas of
work IPPF’s Access Strategy has been
developed to support and consolidate
the work in each of our other four
strategic areas.
To ensure that our Member
Associations across the Federation
have access to the most up-to-date
and evidence-based information, the
IPPF International Medical Advisory
Panel (IMAP) has issued guidance
for service providers on contraceptive
counselling, voluntary surgical
sterilization, contraception for
women over 35, the health needs
of perimenopausal women, and
the elimination of violence against
women. IMAP also presented,
at the International Federation
of Gynaecology and Obstetrics (FIGO),
a scientific session entitled ‘Sexual
and reproductive health choices
in the era of HIV and AIDS’, which
focussed on IPPF’s five Strategic
Priorities. In addition, the quarterly
IPPF Medical Bulletin continues
to provide up-to-date information on
the clinical, service delivery, managerial
and programmatic aspects of sexual
and reproductive health to a wide
internal and external audience.
Over the last year the IPPF publication
Sexual Rights: An IPPF Declaration
has been translated into 21 languages.
Gender, Rights and Sexuality
sensitisation and training was
carried out in various regions based
on the framework provided by
the Declaration.