Overview
U.S. Policies & Funding
The United States is one of the most important players in the global arena of population, family planning and reproductive health policies and programs, including those addressing the HIV/AIDS pandemic. It is the largest bilateral donor in sheer dollar amounts (but not when measured as a proportion of gross national income), and it holds powerful sway over global institutions. U.S. commitment to reproductive health as part of its foreign assistance ebbs and flows depending on domestic politics— in funding amounts and the policies that govern that funding. These policies have profound effects on programs around the world—and ultimately, on those they are intended to help.
International Advocacy, Institutions & Partnerships
PAI's International Advocacy department works to bridge the organization's work with governments and influential institutions-- and, increasingly, key regional institutions--to our partners and colleagues worldwide. We seek to influence and raise awareness about the international policies and funding of these various stakeholders, and ensure that they are considering the linkages between sexual and reproductive health and rights, family planning, HIV and AIDS, and gender equality, and other key development concerns such as the environment and climate change, and security and conflict. Click here to learn more.
Comparative Funding & Finances
Global funding for family planning and reproductive health services, including contraceptive supplies, continues to fall short of needs in developing countries. PAI has been a leader tracking funding for family planning and reproductive health and holding donors and developing countries accountable to their funding commitments. As donor funding mechanisms have gotten more complicated and donor funds more difficult to track, PAI has worked to better understand the changing funding landscape for sexual and reproductive health. Click here to learn more.
Reproductive Health Supplies
Shortages of critical reproductive health supplies (RH Supplies) around the world are undermining progress towards achieving the Program of Action established at the International Conference on Population and Development in Cairo (1994) and the poverty reduction targets included in the Millennium Development Goals .To meet this growing need for greater RH supplies awareness, PAI became one of the leaders on the issue of reproductive health supplies advocacy, bringing together representatives from donor countries to seek solutions to the looming contraceptive supply crisis. Click here to learn more.
Development & Security
From government to academia, there is an increasing desire to understand what makes a state “healthy”—healthy in the sense of more peaceful, more democratic, and better able to provide for the needs of its citizens. Research conducted by PAI and others indicates that demographics can have a significant impact on countries’ stability, governance, economic development and the well-being of its people. Accordingly, programs that promote a society’s demographic transition from high to low rates of birth and death— programs such as such as family planning and girls’ education—must become a priority for donors of development assistance and developing nations themselves.
Population &Climate Change
PAI has a long history of bridging multiple disciplines, generating rigorous and objective analyses, and advancing innovative solutions to improve human and environmental well-being. To date, population issues have been largely absent from the global discourse on climate change. PAI’s Climate Change Initiative is an ambitious multi-year initiative of research, advocacy, and strategic communications designed to bring our experience and expertise to bear on these critical and complex relationships. Click here to learn more.
Population & Environment
Population, health and environment (PHE) refers to the linkage, within a community or group of communities, of services that combine aspects of natural resource conservation or similar environmental work with the provision of reproductive health services, always including but not limited to family planning.PAI believes that family planning and natural resource conservation remain an especially catalytic combination that can bring communities quickly closer to broad-based economic development, improved health and environmental sustainability. Click here to learn more.
