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A health worker delivers services after the Nepal earthquake
programme

| 26 April 2022

SPRINT: Delivering sexual and reproductive healthcare in crises

 SPRINT is IPPF’s humanitarian programme ensuring that lifesaving sexual and reproductive healthcare is available when emergencies strike. Funded by the Australian Government since 2007, it works through IPPF’s locally led network of Member Associations and Collaborative Partners, with a particular focus on the Indo-Pacific region. This includes Pacific Island countries, where geographic isolation, dispersed populations and exposure to climate and natural hazards can make delivering emergency healthcare especially challenging.Because Member Associations are already embedded in the communities they serve, they understand local needs, systems and barriers to care. SPRINT strengthens their capacity to prepare for crises, respond quickly and sustain essential services throughout recovery, enabling responses that are faster, more trusted and more inclusive. PreparednessSPRINT helps communities, health providers and national responders prepare before emergencies occur. This includes training, pre-positioning sexual and reproductive health supplies, strengthening coordination, and integrating sexual and reproductive health into national disaster management policies and plans.The programme also supports advocacy, partnerships and community engagement so that sexual and reproductive health and rights are recognised and protected throughout all phases of the disaster management cycle.ResponseWhen an emergency strikes, Member Associations can apply for funding to deliver lifesaving services through static clinics, mobile health teams and community outreach.  Responses are coordinated with governments, humanitarian clusters and community partners. Services follow the Minimum Initial Service Package and can include contraception, maternal and newborn care, STI and HIV services, safe abortion care to the full extent permitted by law, and support and referrals for survivors of sexual and gender-based violence.SPRINT prioritises women, adolescents, displaced people, people with disabilities and other marginalised communities who may face additional barriers to care.RecoverySPRINT helps Member Associations restore and maintain services after an emergency, connecting immediate interventions with longer-term health system strengthening. Post emergency reviews and peer learning ensure lessons from each response inform future preparedness, advocacy and programme planning. SPRINT’s ImpactBetween 2007 and 2025, SPRINT:Reached 2.5 million people with vital health servicesDelivered 11.9 million services to people affected by crisesSupported 133 emergency responses across 33 countriesTrained 26,000 people in emergency preparedness You can read more about IPPF Humanitarian’s work here.    

A health worker delivers services after the Nepal earthquake
programme

| 26 April 2022

SPRINT: Delivering sexual and reproductive healthcare in crises

 SPRINT is IPPF’s humanitarian programme ensuring that lifesaving sexual and reproductive healthcare is available when emergencies strike. Funded by the Australian Government since 2007, it works through IPPF’s locally led network of Member Associations and Collaborative Partners, with a particular focus on the Indo-Pacific region. This includes Pacific Island countries, where geographic isolation, dispersed populations and exposure to climate and natural hazards can make delivering emergency healthcare especially challenging.Because Member Associations are already embedded in the communities they serve, they understand local needs, systems and barriers to care. SPRINT strengthens their capacity to prepare for crises, respond quickly and sustain essential services throughout recovery, enabling responses that are faster, more trusted and more inclusive. PreparednessSPRINT helps communities, health providers and national responders prepare before emergencies occur. This includes training, pre-positioning sexual and reproductive health supplies, strengthening coordination, and integrating sexual and reproductive health into national disaster management policies and plans.The programme also supports advocacy, partnerships and community engagement so that sexual and reproductive health and rights are recognised and protected throughout all phases of the disaster management cycle.ResponseWhen an emergency strikes, Member Associations can apply for funding to deliver lifesaving services through static clinics, mobile health teams and community outreach.  Responses are coordinated with governments, humanitarian clusters and community partners. Services follow the Minimum Initial Service Package and can include contraception, maternal and newborn care, STI and HIV services, safe abortion care to the full extent permitted by law, and support and referrals for survivors of sexual and gender-based violence.SPRINT prioritises women, adolescents, displaced people, people with disabilities and other marginalised communities who may face additional barriers to care.RecoverySPRINT helps Member Associations restore and maintain services after an emergency, connecting immediate interventions with longer-term health system strengthening. Post emergency reviews and peer learning ensure lessons from each response inform future preparedness, advocacy and programme planning. SPRINT’s ImpactBetween 2007 and 2025, SPRINT:Reached 2.5 million people with vital health servicesDelivered 11.9 million services to people affected by crisesSupported 133 emergency responses across 33 countriesTrained 26,000 people in emergency preparedness You can read more about IPPF Humanitarian’s work here.    

H.E. Ambassador Takashi Shinozuka, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Japan to Morocco and Dr Latifa Mokhtar JAMAI, President of AMPF, IPPF’s Member Association in Morocco, at the JTF project launch ceremony
programme

| 30 March 2017

Japan Trust Fund

The Japan Trust Fund (JTF) represents a visionary partnership that began in 2000 between the Government of Japan and IPPF. Together, we invest in programmes that prioritize health equity, gender equality, and human security for all. Traditionally a driving force behind IPPF's efforts to support the integrated HIV prevention programmes of our Member Associations in Africa and Asia, JTF has adjusted to reflect changing global health priorities. We attach importance to universal access to sexual and reproductive health and rights - an essential contributor to universal health coverage and the global development goals.     These projects have transformed the lives of people most vulnerable to HIV and high risk of maternal and child mortality. Equally, it ensures that as a donor, the GOJ’s response to HIV remains people-centred and contributes to human security.      

H.E. Ambassador Takashi Shinozuka, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Japan to Morocco and Dr Latifa Mokhtar JAMAI, President of AMPF, IPPF’s Member Association in Morocco, at the JTF project launch ceremony
programme

| 30 March 2017

Japan Trust Fund

The Japan Trust Fund (JTF) represents a visionary partnership that began in 2000 between the Government of Japan and IPPF. Together, we invest in programmes that prioritize health equity, gender equality, and human security for all. Traditionally a driving force behind IPPF's efforts to support the integrated HIV prevention programmes of our Member Associations in Africa and Asia, JTF has adjusted to reflect changing global health priorities. We attach importance to universal access to sexual and reproductive health and rights - an essential contributor to universal health coverage and the global development goals.     These projects have transformed the lives of people most vulnerable to HIV and high risk of maternal and child mortality. Equally, it ensures that as a donor, the GOJ’s response to HIV remains people-centred and contributes to human security.      

Photo of ACT!2030 young activists
programme

| 07 February 2017

ACT!2030

IPPF collaborates with UNAIDS and The PACT to implement ACT!2030 (formerly ACT!2015), a youth-led social action initiative which engages young people in 12 countries with advocacy and accountability around the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and other SRHR agreements/frameworks. ACT!2030 was initiated in 2013 as a way to increase youth participation in the negotiations leading up to the adoption of the post-2015 development agenda, and for two years focused on establishing alliances of youth-led and youth-serving organisations in 12 countries across the world. The project is currently in Phase 4, which runs until the end of 2017, and aims to establish youth-led, data-driven accountability mechanisms to ensure youth engagement with the implementation of the SDGs and build an evidence base for advocacy. Ultimately, Phase 4 of ACT!2030 seeks to identify, assess and address key policy barriers to young people’s sexual and reproductive data by using existing data, supplemented by youth-collected data, to advocate and lobby for policy change. This phase involves four main activities: indicator advocacy (persuading decision makers to adopt youth-friendly SRHR and HIV indicators, including on things like comprehensive sexuality education (CSE) and access to youth-friendly services, into national/global reporting mechanisms); evidence gathering (creating national databases on quality of and access to youth-friendly services and CSE); communications (transforming this data and evidence into communications pieces that can be used to advocacy and lobby at national and international level); and global exchange (facilitating global visibility to share advocacy and engagement learnings and increase youth-led accountability in global and regional processes). ACT!2030 is implemented by national alliances of youth organisations in 12 countries: Algeria, Bulgaria, India, Jamaica, Kenya, Mexico, Nigeria, Philippines, South Africa, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe.  

Photo of ACT!2030 young activists
programme

| 07 February 2017

ACT!2030

IPPF collaborates with UNAIDS and The PACT to implement ACT!2030 (formerly ACT!2015), a youth-led social action initiative which engages young people in 12 countries with advocacy and accountability around the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and other SRHR agreements/frameworks. ACT!2030 was initiated in 2013 as a way to increase youth participation in the negotiations leading up to the adoption of the post-2015 development agenda, and for two years focused on establishing alliances of youth-led and youth-serving organisations in 12 countries across the world. The project is currently in Phase 4, which runs until the end of 2017, and aims to establish youth-led, data-driven accountability mechanisms to ensure youth engagement with the implementation of the SDGs and build an evidence base for advocacy. Ultimately, Phase 4 of ACT!2030 seeks to identify, assess and address key policy barriers to young people’s sexual and reproductive data by using existing data, supplemented by youth-collected data, to advocate and lobby for policy change. This phase involves four main activities: indicator advocacy (persuading decision makers to adopt youth-friendly SRHR and HIV indicators, including on things like comprehensive sexuality education (CSE) and access to youth-friendly services, into national/global reporting mechanisms); evidence gathering (creating national databases on quality of and access to youth-friendly services and CSE); communications (transforming this data and evidence into communications pieces that can be used to advocacy and lobby at national and international level); and global exchange (facilitating global visibility to share advocacy and engagement learnings and increase youth-led accountability in global and regional processes). ACT!2030 is implemented by national alliances of youth organisations in 12 countries: Algeria, Bulgaria, India, Jamaica, Kenya, Mexico, Nigeria, Philippines, South Africa, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe.