International Planned Parenthood Federation - Policy and Effectiveness at Country and Regional Levels

This synthesis is an assessment of the International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF) at country level (Bangladesh, Ethiopia, India, Nepal, Uganda and Zambia). MFA, Norway; Sida and DFID have initiated this study.

The assessment should make informed judgements about effectiveness, performance and relevance of IPPF in promoting policy development, increasing access to and the quality of reproductive health services, and responding to the needs of those most disadvantaged in developing countries.

This is a follow-up to the Swedish study of IPPF at the central level, which was carried out in 1997. All three governments make contributions to the core grant of IPPF and have broadly supported the IPPF Vision 2000 initiative which since 1992 has emphasised the 'six challenges': unmet family planning need, sexual and reproductive health (SRH), unsafe abortion, women's empowerment, youth SRH, and SRH quality of care.