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Bureau for Global Health
>> Regional Overview >> Global Health Overview Program Data Sheet
936-001 IR 1.2USAID OPERATING UNIT: Bureau for Global Health
PROGRAM TITLE: Family Planning & Reproductive Health-Policy (Pillar: Global Health)
STRATEGIC OBJECTIVE AND NUMBER: Increased use by women and men of voluntary practices that contribute to reduced fertility, 936-001 IR 1.2 Improved policy environment and increased global resources for family planning programs.
STATUS: Continuing
PLANNED FY 2002 OBLIGATION AND FUNDING SOURCE: $8,438,000 CSH
PRIOR YEAR UNOBLIGATED AND FUNDING SOURCE: $150,000 DA
PROPOSED FY 2003 OBLIGATION AND FUNDING SOURCE: $8,438,000 DA
INITIAL OBLIGATION: FY 1996 ESTIMATED COMPLETION DATE: FY 2013Summary: Major categories of assistance under this Intermediate Result include:
- developing awareness-raising presentations and resource planning models for use with host-country policymakers;
- strengthening the ability of local organizations to participate in the policy process;
- promoting private sector participation in family planning/reproductive health (FP/RH) service delivery; and
- engaging in research and preparing publications on FP/RH issues of global importance.
Inputs, Outputs, and Activities: FY 2002 Program: USAID will fund the development of strategies to promote family planning in the context of high HIV prevalence, particularly in African countries. It will also continue to develop approaches to increase host-country financial commitments to family planning. Small grants will be provided to local advocacy groups to enable them to participate in policy-making activities and to publicize the policy implications of FP/RH research. (Particular attention will be paid to policies that affect young adults' access to reproductive health information and services.) USAID will continue to fund a study by the National Academy of Sciences on transitions to adulthood and their implications for reproductive health. USAID will also work to ensure the long-term availability of appropriate contraceptives at affordable prices. Finally, FY 2002 resources will be used to promote the application of an integrated package of policy activities that encompass using data in policy decision-making; strengthening policy champions; planning, formulating, and drafting policies; and building NGO networks.
Planned FY 2003 Program: USAID policy support will increasingly focus on ensuring the sustainability of FP/RH services and overcoming policy barriers. For example, USAID plans to fund training and technical assistance to governments to help them efficiently implement policies aimed at promoting decentralization. Efforts will also be undertaken to consolidate the lessons learned from sector-wide approaches to health sector financing and its implications for the provision of FP/RH services. USAID will develop, test, and apply approaches to integrate reproductive health and sexually transmitted infections and HIV policies and services. Efforts will also be made to overcome policy barriers to the provision of post-abortion care and to support research on global trends in contraceptive use and demand for family planning.
Family planning assistance agreements either already include or will include standard clauses to implement the Mexico City Policy, per the Presidential Document entitled "Memorandum of March 28, 2001 for the Acting Administrator of the United States Agency for International Development--Restoration of the Mexico City Policy," (Federal Register: March 29, 2001, Volume 66, Number 61, Pages 17301-17313) attached to Contract Information Bulletin 01-08 (R). USAID is monitoring compliance with the Policy.
Performance and Results: Advocacy efforts through private voluntary organizations improved the social environment for women, helping to increase the legal age of marriage in parts of Nigeria. USAID investments in awareness-raising presentations and resource planning models contributed to improved FP/RH policies in 23 countries in FY 2001. In Turkey, for example, UDAID core funds paid for pilot tests, provincial planning meetings, training-of-trainers for Ministry of Health personnel, and rollout of a national policy for contraceptive self-sufficiency based on voluntary contributions. USAID core funds also supported an analysis of condom needs in Kenya for the 2001-2004 period that contributed to the government's decision to sign an agreement with the World Bank to use $10 million in loan funds to purchase condoms. USAID's $3 million investment in Cooperative for Assistance and Relief Everywhere (CARE) in the form of an endowment to expand and sustain CARE's global reproductive health portfolio has begun generating matching funds; in FY 2001, CARE met its first matching funds requirement of $1.85 million under its USAID-funded endowment.
Continued progress in these areas will result in more supportive policies for FP/RH in USAID-assisted countries, increases in non-USAID resources for FP/RH, and more efficient and prudent use by host countries of their own funds.
Major Contractors and Grantees: (1) The Futures Group International - subcontractors: Research Triangle Institute and the Centre for Population and Development Education; (2) National Academy of Sciences; (3) Population Reference Bureau - subcontractors: Academy for Educational Development; (4) the CARE Endowment; and (5) other cooperating agencies and host-country institutions.
US Financing in Thousands of Dollars
936-0012 Improved policy environment and increased global resources for family planning programs. CSH DA Through September 30, 2000 Obligations 0 38,959 Expenditures 0 30,234 Unliquidated 0 8,725 Fiscal Year 2001 Obligations 0 11,258 Expenditures 0 9,561 Through September 30, 2001 Obligations 0 50,217 Expenditures 0 39,795 Unliquidated 0 10,422 Prior Year Unobligated Funds Obligations 0 150 Planned Fiscal Year 2002 NOA Obligations 8,438 0 Total Planned Fiscal Year 2002 Obligations 8,438 150 Proposed Fiscal Year 2003 NOA Obligations 0 8,438 Future Obligations 0 29,557 Est. Total Cost 8,438 88,362
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