CIFF’s commitment to invest US$75 million for user-led sexual and reproductive healthcare in support of ICPD+25
Commitment description:For the last five years, CIFF has been investing in programmes to provide adolescents and young people with more opportunities to control their sexual and reproductive health. During this time, we have invested over $250 million US Dollars to empower young people with information services and products to prevent unplanned pregnancy, unsafe abortion, and HIV – often co-funded with other Foundations and Governments.
In support of the ICPD Programme of Action, we are pleased to announce $75 million US Dollars of additional funding towards advancing self-care in sexual and reproductive health, through investments that de-medicalise family planning choices, HIV prevention, and safe abortion; working in countries that have the most ambitious plans to take advantage of these transformative choices.
This funding will take the form of investments which will help ensure that:
- We democratise sexual and reproductive health, radically changing the power of individuals to be agents of their own healthcare and to choose the tools and services that they need.
- We make self-care a truly gender transformative approach to healthcare, changing power dynamics and the norms governing who gets to decide, boosting our shared goal of a genuinely rights-based approach where health systems are accountable to the user.
Alongside monetary commitments, CIFF are also supporting the Self-Care Trailblazers in strengthening systems in order to create enabling environments for practicing self-care, and we call on our partners – Governments, NGOs, civil society and funders – to join us in supporting such exciting, crucial work.
Modes of engagement:
- Budgetary and financialCommitment of $75m USD for user-led sexual and reproductive healthcare in support of ICPD+25.
Value: 75,000,000 USD
- Programmatic actionAdvancing self-care in sexual and reproductive health, through investments that de-medicalise family planning choices, HIV Prevention, and safe abortion.
Achieve universal access to sexual and reproductive health as a part of universal health coverage (UHC)(4) Access for all adolescents and youth, especially girls, to comprehensive and age-responsive information, education and adolescent-friendly comprehensive, quality and timely services to be able to make free and informed decisions and choices about their sexuality and reproductive lives, to adequately protect themselves from unintended pregnancies, all forms of sexual and gender-based violence and harmful practices, sexually transmitted infections, including HIV/AIDS, to facilitate a safe transition into adulthood.
