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Malawi_GGR_SheDecides IPPF/Tommy Trenchard/Malawi

Our Work

IPPF's integrated healthcare delivery is wide-ranging, including comprehensive sex education, provision of contraceptive, safe abortion, and maternal care to anyone who needs it regardless of race, gender, sex, income, and crucially no matter how remote.

IPPF’s Strategic Framework

2016-2022

Strategic Framework 2016–2022 is a bold and aspirational vision of what the International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF) plans to achieve, and how we will achieve it, over the next seven years.

Mali_GGR_She Decides 2020 IPPF/Xaume Olleros/Mali

Humanitarian

The need for reproductive healthcare does not stop during humanitarian crises. In these settings, the risks of forced early marriage, sexual and gender-based violence, unsafe abortion, and unattended births increase significantly. At the same time, the spread of sexually transmitted infections, including HIV, rises – just as access to essential healthcare services declines. 

IPPF responds to these urgent needs through locally led, life-saving sexual and reproductive health services in crisis-affected communities. Our humanitarian work prioritises women, girls, and marginalised populations, ensuring they can access care, support, and protection when they need it most. This includes services delivered through static and mobile clinics, community outreach, and information campaigns.

A humanitarian worker assists a client in South Sudan

Integrated Service Delivery

Integrated Package of Essential Services

IPPF’s Integrated Package of Essential Services (IPES) promotes service provision for the most pressing sexual and reproductive health needs of the population.

We place our clients at the very centre of everything we do and provide them with eight essential services: counselling, contraception, safe abortion care, STIs/RTIs, HIV, gynaecology, prenatal care and gender-based violence.

This approach focuses on both expanding supply and increasing demand for services.

Benin_Abortion Stigma Packard IPPF/Xaume Olleros/Benin

Minimum Initial Service Package (MISP)

The Minimum Initial Service Package (MISP) is a set of life-saving activities to be implemented at the onset of every humanitarian crisis. 

It is an internationally accepted minimum standard of care for reproductive health, pioneered and rolled out by IPPF.

The sexual and reproductive health services set out in the MISP can mean the difference between life and death for people affected by disaster.

IPPF Humanitarian - Palu, Indonesia Earthquake and Tsunami 2018 IPPF/Kathleen Prior