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DRAFT General Assembly Public Statement of Anti-Racism In May 2020, IPPF commissioned an internal institutional anti-racism review. The push for the review came not only from within the organisation but from global events that prompted us – a 70-year-old international NGO – to rethink our own path. Challenged internally by staff and a growing anti-racism […]

Indicative Vote Results Between 20 July and 2 August the 108 full member associations of IPPF were invited to an indicative vote for the draft IPPF Strategy 2023-28: Come Together. Six votes were cast after the voting link closed. The last of these votes was added on 15 August. This means the results are as […]

What should the Secretariat be accountable for? Help us define the scope of the new Secretariat Accountability Mechanism! IPPF is in the process of establishing a mechanism to assess the performance and accountability of the Secretariat against IPPF Strategy and approved Secretariat priorities as outlined in the Business Plan. We call this the Secretariat Accountability […]

Hi Everyone! Hope you are well. We are adding in events below that IPPF will be hosting or participating in at the AIDS Conference starting this week and going into next week. Thanks MA Forum Team The online connection details for the above event: https://key4events.zoom.us/j/87505992747?pwd=ekpPcmZSRFRwalNnWllqZ1k3bTlpdz09ID: 875 0599 2747Code: 734715 For more information about Events also […]

The Board of Trustees met for a face to face meeting in Morocco at the end of June. Many discussions took place especially issues related to the IPPF Strategy and the General Assembly happening later in the year in Bogota, Colombia. You will be able to find the board papers under Board matters if you […]

IPPF held a townhall with all the information related to the General Assembly on the 29th June. If you missed that Townhall you can watch it below. English: https://youtu.be/rJbe1JQizxY  French: https://youtu.be/vcCAbVwTke4  Spanish: https://youtu.be/beUaxJ7CMW4  Arabic: https://youtu.be/-ILVGRducrE

by Mahmoud Garga – Lead Specialist – Strategic Communication, Media Relations and Digital Campaigning On 15 March 2022, IPPF Africa Region launched the Treasure Your Pleasure digital campaign across Sub-Saharan Africa. The campaign, in English, French and Portuguese aims to create a safe space for youth in Africa to talk about sex freely, reducing shame through […]

Dear Colleagues Two years ago, emerging from the murder of George Floyd (in 2020) as well as requests from staff within the organisation, we started a process of examining racism within the secretariat. As a start to our process we procured expert consultants to support this deep dive examination of issues related to racism and […]

In June, an online, in-depth virtual Workshop was held for MAs in all IPPF regions to delve deeper into these vital SE-related topics.   It took the form of a three-day event and was conducted in three groups to accommodate the IPPF regions and time zones. 6th – 8th of June | AWR and AR | […]

Board Meeting On June 18, the IPPF Board met in Marrakech, Morocco. Due to the COVID pandemic, it was their first face to face meeting since the 2020 transition to the new governance structure. The board devoted two separate sessions to the draft strategy, Come Together.  The board were impressed with the document and they […]