Results-driven Advocacy
Beth Fredrick
Executive Director
Advance Family Planning
September 4, 2013
Public Health Advocacy
 Translates research into policy
and practice
 Addresses public health
problems on a large scale
 Empowers leaders to protect
and improve the health of their
communities and
constituencies
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Advance Family Planning 2013-17
 Increase financial
investment & political
commitment to ensure
access to quality family
planning
 Contribute to FP2020
goals
 Access for 120 million
more women and girls by
2020
 >20 Governments made
commitments
 Donors pledged US$2.6
Billion in funding
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AFP Results & Impact
 More than 40 policy advances
(“quick wins”) achieved since
2009
 1,000+ AFP SMART Advocates
 500+ champions engaged
 Advocacy tools in Bahasa,
English, French, Hindi, and
Kiswahili
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Broad
Goal & ImpactQuick Win
Results
Increasing funding for family
planning
Increased government allocations to family planning in
Indonesia, Tanzania, and Uganda, including at the
district level
Eliminating policy barriers
Catalyzed policy changes to allow community health
workers to provide injectable contraceptives in Kenya
and Uganda
Implemented workplace family planning programs in
Indonesia
Permitted private providers and NGOs to access the
national medicines warehouse in Tanzania and
Uganda
Raising the global visibility of family
planning
Included family planning in the World Health
Organization’s guidance on task shifting for maternal
and newborn health
Added reproductive health as an area of emphasis in
the World Bank Development Report
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Increasing Access in Uganda
II want to see it for
myself.
How can we
translate evidence
to action?
What next?
Our Approach
 Locally-driven
FP champions determine and
direct activities
 Focused
Strategies center on those who
have the power to allocate funds
and set policies
 Evidence-based
Up-to-date data and proven
approaches drive advocacy
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Our Approach
 Collaborative
An inclusive, consensus-building
process leverages the resources of
others
 Influential
Voices from the South bring national
perspectives to global and regional
agendas
 Accountable
 Strong performance monitoring
frameworks track progress
 Sustainable
 Advocacy capacity and activities are
able to continue after AFP
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Focus Countries
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Indonesia
Tanzania
Uganda
India
Kenya
Nigeria
• Burkina Faso
• Democratic
Republic of the
Congo
• Senegal
Partners
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Bill & Melinda Gates Institute for Population and Reproductive Health
Advocacy Nigeria
African Women’s Development Fund
Center for Communication Programs
Cipta Cara Padu Indonesia
Futures Group International
Health Promotion Tanzania
International Planned Parenthood Federation
Jhpiego
Partners in Population and Development, Africa Regional Office
Population Action International
Population Foundation of India
Reproductive Health Uganda
Réseau Siggil Jigéen
Thank you &
For More Information
Beth Fredrick
Executive Director
Advance Family Planning
[email protected]
advancefamilyplanning.org
Supported by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the David & Lucile
Packard Foundation, and the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation
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