Funding
President's Budget and Global Health Initiative Signal Renewed U.S. Commitment to Family Planning and Reproductive Health
June 2009
On May 7th President Obama released the Administration’s federal budget request for FY 2010. The request proposes spending $593 million on bilateral and multilateral family planning and reproductive health assistance, which is a $48 million (9%) increase above current funding levels.Read more.
International Family Planning Programs Receive Nearly Twenty Percent Increase
March 2009
International family planning and reproductive health (FPRH) programs have received a much-needed increase in funding, thanks to the recent adoption of the fiscal year 2009 omnibus spending bill (H.R. 1105). This bill, signed into law by President Obama on March 11, includes a total of $545 million for bilateral and multilateral FPRH, an increase of $82 million, or 18%, above current levels.Read more.
White House Transition
December 2008
In the wake of the historic November 4 election, PAI has been working on a variety of fronts to seize upon the opportunities for family planning and reproductive health (FP/RH) afforded by the Obama administration. Read more
$1 Billion for U.S. International FP/RH Programs: Family Planning, Environmental and HIV/AIDS Communities and Key Congressional Members Build Support on Capitol Hill
December 2008
Over the last year, the family planning community, in partnership with the environmental and HIV/AIDS communities, has called on Congress to support significant increases in funding for international FP/RH programs. Committed to reversing long-term declines in U.S. funding trends for international FP/RH programs and addressing the unmet family planning needs of more than 201 million women in the developing world, PAI and a coalition of international family planning advocates have been building support in the House and Senate to significantly increase U.S. government funding for FP/RH programs to $1 Billion.[Read more]
Making the Case for U.S. International Family Planning Assistance
January, 2009
“Making the Case for U.S. International Family Planning Assistance” articulates how significant increase in funding from current levels would reinvigorate USAID’s historical status as a global leader in funding and technical resources for international population and family planning programs. The report details how providing modern contraceptives to fill this unmet need for family planning would avert millions of unintended pregnancies and induced abortions each year, thereby preventing thousands of pregnancy-related deaths. The report outlines how additional funding would allow USAID to build upon successful programs and expand into underserved countries; increased financial support would yield a strengthening of core areas such as training and equipping health care providers, and allow for a renewal of USAID’s technical leadership, support for global organizations and U.S. leadership overall.
40 Years of U.S. Family Planning Timeline
January 3, 2005
Forty years ago a bipartisan group of House and Senate members, in partnership with key allies in the executive branch and private sector, teamed together to launch U.S. assistance for international family planning. These individuals recognized that slowing rapid population growth was essential to achieving broader development goals such as improved health care and the reduction of poverty, hunger and environmental stress. [Read more]
Trends in U.S. Population Assistance
Since 1965, Congress has appropriated money in the foreign assistance bill for population assistance to developing countries to advance the U.S. foreign policy goals of promoting sustainable development and health in these countries. [Read more]
Press Release: US FY 2008 Foreign Assistance Endgame
December 19, 2007
More than two months after the beginning of the new 2008 fiscal year, the White House and Congress have finally reached agreement on a massive FY 2008 omnibus spending bill. Here is a summary of the international family planning and reproductive health (FP/RH) issues within the foreign assistance provisions of the bill. [Read more]
Fact Sheet: Why the U.S. Should Support Family Planning Overseas
The US foreign aid program has expanded access to contraception for millions of couples in developing nations, enabling them to plan their families. The program has also helped to slow population growth rates, making an important contribution to the future quality of life on our planet. Yet the job is far from done. For global family planning efforts to fully succeed, Americans and their leaders must continue to support US population assistance. [Read more]
Research Commentary: The Changing Face of Foreign Assistance-New Funding Paradigms Offer a Challenge and Opportunity for Family Planning
September 1, 2006
New foreign assistance strategies that aim to encourage ownership by recipients while still effectively reducing poverty are laudable. They offer the hope of increased financial support to overall global development—a bigger pie—but they also pose significant challenges to the family planning field: Will it be able to keep a slice of that pie? [Read more]
Viewpoint: Family Planning in the Philippines
April 24, 2008
“Birthrates Help Keep Filipinos in Poverty” – that’s the headline of an April 21, 2008 Washington Post article highlighting the plight of a growing number of poor women in the Philippines who lack access to one of the most basic forms of health care: family planning (FP) and reproductive health services. [Read more]
Bush Slashes Funding for Women and Families around the World
February 4, 2008
President Bush's proposed budget for Fiscal Year 2009, released today, would dramatically cut funding for international family planning and sexual and reproductive health programs. The proposed funding level of $327 million represents a $134 million (or 29%) cut from current levels. [Read more]
Appropriating Women's Lives
October 1, 2007
For the first time in recent history, the House and Senate have united in support of the pragmatic "prevention first" policy that is favored by most Americans and backed by strong evidence. Both the House and the Senate have voted in favor of provisions that exempt contraceptives from the Global Gag Rule. [Read more]
Mr. President: Read the Bill!
July 30, 2007
Members of Congress head back to their districts this month with the threat of a Presidential veto of the 2008 Foreign Operations Appropriations Bill casting a dark cloud over the good work they’ve done. Why a possible veto? It’s all because of a provision that exempts U.S.-donated contraceptives and condoms from the restrictions of the Global Gag Rule. [Read more]
Appropriations Bill Includes Life-Saving Reproductive Health Provisions
June 11, 2007
With its Subcommittee on State, Foreign Operations and Related Programs’ approval of the fiscal year 2008 appropriations bill, the House of Representatives took a significant step toward grounding U.S. aid for family planning and HIV/AIDS relief in sound evidence. [Read more]
House Appropriations Committee United in Efforts to Improve Effectiveness of U.S. Assistance for Family Planning and HIV/AIDS Programs
June 12, 2007
Today during debate of the FY 2008 State and Foreign Operations Appropriations, the House Appropriations Committee went on record in strong support of measures to improve the effectiveness of U.S. assistance for family planning and HIV/AIDS prevention programs. [Read more]
This Afternoon the House Appropriations Subcommittee will mark up bill to remove Ideology-based restrictions on U.S. foreign assistance for family planning and HIV/AIDS
June 5, 2007
Today's action by the House Appropriations Subcommittee is a much needed dose of common sense when it comes to U.S. assistance on family planning and HIV/AIDS. The evidence is overwhelming that one-size-fits-all abstinence programs don't protect women and girls from HIV and that contraceptives are vital to saving mothers' lives and reducing abortion. [Read more]
