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2020 has been a challenging year for all countries around the world. With the ongoing global pandemic, COVID-19 has brought halt to many sectors worldwide as a result of the restrictions of movement between and within countries - sexual and reproductive health services are no exception to this.  IPPF Member Associations have been tirelessly working to meet the women’s sexual and reproductive health needs.  They quickly adjusted their services to cope with the restrictions brought by the pandemic Download the attachment and read more to see how the Pacific Member Associations performed through C-19 background.

While the COVID-19 pandemic affects the general population, it disproportionately affects vulnerable sectors, including LGBTQI communities, due to SOGIESC-related stigma and discrimination. Civil society organizations in Asia Pacific—such as International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF), APCOM, Asia Pacific Transgender Network, Pink Alliance, ILGA Asia, International Women’s Rights Action Watch Asia Pacific, Youth Voices Count — have joined forced and signed on an open letter to WHO’s Director-General Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, urging WHO to include aspects of sexual orientation, gender identity, expression and sex characteristics (SOGIESC) into their policies, programs and WHO’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic. See the letter here. Photo credit: apcom.org

This Annual Report embodies the collective efforts of Member Associations and Secretariat of IPPF ESEAOR in 2019. It also contains some stories behind the statistics.  Some of the highlights include advocacy wins (contributed 15 policy wins related to SRHR); reached more than 27 million youth with comprehensive sexuality education (CSE); and delivered 20.2 million sexual and reproductive health services to more than 6 million clients. Read on for more details.

In celebration of International Youth Day 2020, we are featuring a youth volunteer from one of IPPF's Member Association - Reproductive Health Association of Cambodia.

The overall group income of IPPF has risen by US$51.8 million (46 per cent) to US$163.7 million (2018: US$111.9 million). Unrestricted total income and restricted income rose by US$1.9 million and US$49.86 million respectively. IPPF’s main source of funding is government grants, which account for 88 per cent (2018: 81 per cent) of total income. In 2019 unrestricted government funding increased by US$2.2 million (4 per cent) to US$57.4 million. The main reason for the increase in funding in 2019 was the increase in funding from Germany which rose from €6 million to €12 million. Restricted government funding amounted to US$87 million, up from US$35.2 million in 2018. A full analysis of restricted projects balances. The following Governments were the major contributors to the restricted funding of IPPF: Government of United Kingdom,through the WISH programme in Africa, South Asia and the Arab World US$59.23 million, the European Commission supported the State of African Women Campaign US$4.6 million, Government of Canada US$4.3 million, Government of Australia continued to provide support (US$2.4 million) in relation to the global SPRINTInitiative to provide sexual and reproductive health services to crisisand post crisis areas in South East Asia, the Pacific, South Asia andGovernment of Belgium contributed to the SHE Decides project US$2.07 million. The governments of the Netherlands, Norway, UK and an anonymous donor also provided funding of US$5.64 million to the Safe Abortion Action Fund. Grants from multilateral donors and other sources decreased by 13 per cent from US$20.7 million to US$18.1 million. A significant factor in the decrease was US$0.6 million from GIZ, US$0.26 million from Anonymous donors, and US$0.7 million decrease from the David and Lucile Packard Foundation.

The COVID-19 pandemic and its consequences are negatively affecting the availability of and access to basic services, including sexual and reproductive health (SRH) care, and is further exacerbating existing inequalities. IPPF Member Associations have been impacted by the spread of COVID-19, as service delivery points have been forced to close and some operations have had to be suspended. Concerted political action to secure sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) provision is necessary to adequately face this challenge – to this end, IPPF Member Associations have been actively engaging in advocacy with decision makers at national, regional and international levels to ensure that access to SRHR and SRH services is safeguarded and available to all who need it. They have demonstrated exceptional innovativeness, leadership and resilience in their advocacy efforts to secure these goals.