MEDIA ALERT

The annual progress report entitled FP2020: Catalyzing Collaboration has been produced by Family Planning 2020 (FP2020) – a leading global partnership that supports the rights of women and girls to freely decide whether, when, and how many children they want to have.

The report is a center-piece of family planning debate and policy-making annually. It will be the most data-rich analysis of family planning outcomes in the 69 studied countries to date.

The report will include:

• Compelling new data on a country-level and aggregate basis for the world’s 69 lowest-income countries, including:

• Unintended pregnancies prevented, unsafe abortions avoided, and maternal deaths averted in the 12 months from July 2017 to July 2018.

• Levels of contraceptive use and unmet need for modern contraception among married and unmarried adolescents and young women aged 15-19 and 20-24
• Patterns and trends in key life events for young people such as age at marriage, first sex, and first birth
• Adolescent birth rate indicators tracking progress toward reducing teen births
• For the first time, data on domestic government spending on family planning, showing country ownership of programs in some cases, and critical gaps in others
• New data on the largest bilateral (i.e. country) family planning donors and trends in financing
• A forceful call to action to government policy-makers and other stakeholders on the need to guarantee reproductive health care – including rights-based family planning – in all universal health coverage plans