To love somebody IPPF Strategy 2023-28

What you’re saying about Love, Sex, Intimacy, Care and Pleasure

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We accompany clients to access abortions, exposing our own safety, putting our bodies on the line alongside them.
–- Tamia Maldonado, Young advocate in abortion activism in Ecuador

The more diverse our understanding the more successful we will be. If we do not look at all issues that shape and effect people’s lives we will not get to the core of what they need.
–Sherlina Nageer, Guyana RainBow

Social Enterprise activity and its various benefits is what kept us going during the COVID-19 pandemic.
–- Thushara Agus, Executive Director, FPA Sri Lanka

Most people tend to sit in a kind of a continuum, not everyone is fully opposed to, or fully in favor of an issue like CSE. So we, while we continuously track and monitor what the movement is doing and how they are operating, we also need to proactively be building support for CSE thought shared values and demonstration of impact.
–- Arushi Signh, Programme Specialist, Unesco

Communicating from fear and indignation has been the strategy used by human rights defenders in recent decades. However, it is a priority to change the paradigm: communicating from the vision of society and future that joins us is the key to generate empathy and positive feelings around Human, Sexual and Reproductive Rights.
–- SWIMMING WITH SHARKS: RECONSTRUCTING NARRATIVES ROUNDTABLE

Never forget why we are working – to serve people: women, men, LGBTQI, young people, marginalised people.
–Alice Ackermann, Feminist Activist

If you’re in this to be a saviour to people, you’re in it for the wrong reasons.
–Tlaleng-Mofokeng, UN Special Rapporteur for Health

As Young People, we should not wait for opportunities to come to us, we should find them or create them ourselves.
–– Pleasant Mariam Kargbo, Planned Parenthood Association of Sierra Leonne

It is youth that push political actors to craft legislation that builds a more equitable society. And it is these policies and legislation that create lasting change. Young people’s activism turns talk into action.
–The Honourable Karina Gould, Minster of International Development, Government of Canada

Be transparent about the mundane and the daily, and when there is a crisis the response will be to naturally be transparent.
–– Kate Gilmore, Chair, IPPF Board of Trustees

Families are supposed to be subjective, you are supposed to see your family through your own lens, not categorised into a box of binaries.
–Abhina Aher, Chair of Strategy, Investment and Policy Committee, IPPF

Fatigue, even when it’s severe, is part of a cycle. Action, regeneration. Now there is a gaining of strength. Mine, the movement’s, and the people’s.
–- Marta Lempart, The Freedom Fighter, Defend the Defenders Project

In this ever-changing world, change is the mindset of the people.
–Don Gunawardena, President of National Council, Family Planning Association Sri Lanka

We have to ask the question: Why are countries unable in their own fiscal budget to actually meet the needs of women and queer people on the ground? It is because they simply do not matter.
–- Tlaleng-Mofokeng, UN Special Rapporteur on the right to health

Hope-based communications are important because audiences are tired of so many tragic stories.
–- Mónica Roa, Colombian Lawyer Contributing to Processes of Social Change and Human Rights

I am sure that we will win. And I see this in young people, - they are the ones that will actually decide what will happen, and they are having these protests with music and dancing because they know that this will just be a phase. They wouldn’t dance in the streets if they didn't believe that it was just a phase. And that we will win.
–- Marta Lempart, The Freedom Fighter, Defend the Defenders Project

The board must not get in the way of excellence.
–Kate Gilmore, Chair, IPPF Board of Trustees

The way to include intersex, trans and gender non confirming people in SRHR is to address torture in health care settings, challenging the normalisation of un-consensual interventions, and challenging the pathologisation of identity and sexuality.
–Mauro Cabral, Founding Co-Director, GATE

There is no such thing as a single-issue struggle because we do not live single-issue lives.
–- Audre Lorde

The best way to understand the changing world is through the MAs.
–- Jackie Edmond, Chief Executive, Family Planning New Zealand

IPPF MAs are the bridge between local and international. MA’s capacity and engagement can help bridge the international to the local. The youth are so energetic, and they know how to respond in a timely way. Young people are our light and our torch.
–- Dr Anjum Rizvi, Director of Programs, Rahnuma-FPAP

IPPF has within its priorities the empowerment of girls, adolescents and women, and if we can decide whether or not to have an abortion, we are stronger, freer, and more autonomous.
–Esperanza Delgado, Director of Advocacy and Inter-institutional Relations, MEXFAM

It is important to nurture partnerships with schools, tertiary education institutions, professional bodies and mass media.
–Dr Mona Lam, Executive Director, Family Planning Association of Hong Kong

The environment must be changed to facilitate the empowerment and participation of youth in Trinidad and Tobago regarding their SRHR. This cannot be done by young people alone, critical partners in this respect are policy makers, parents, faith-based organisations and other key stakeholders who often serve as gate keepers to either facilitate or inhibit youth participation.
–Kimberly Gilbert, CHAMP Youth Officer, Trinidad and Tobago

Why is it that when I’m fighting against my oppression, that I have to follow the rules of the oppressor, so that the oppressor can hear me?
–- Mona Eltahawy, Freelance Journalist

Why do we have to have a barrier between contraception and abortion? From a medical perspective, it is not necessary.
–- Kristina Gemzell Danielsson, Professor and Head of the Department of Women’s and Children’s Health, and Chair of Neonatology, Obstetrics and Gynecologyat, Karolinska Institutet (KI) and Senior Consultant, Karolinska University Hospital

Abortion has always existed and will continue to exist. It is a human right not to continue with an unwanted pregnancy. Access to abortion saves lives.
–- Petra Bayr, Member of IPPF’s Committee on Strategy, Investment and Policy and Member of the Austrian Parliament

I cannot remain indifferent when, in the majesty of the law, a women's hell is being prepared in Poland. I do this for my daughter, my niece, my students. So that they do not leave, so that they feel safe in their own country.
–- Iwona: Teacher With A Mission, Defend the Defenders Project

When people accuse us, sex workers, of encouraging patriarchy, then they are behaving like the patriarchy themselves. What they can’t forgive us for in their heads is that we work with sex!
–- Elena Reynaga, Founder, Asociación de Mujeres Meretrices de Argentina (AMMAR) and Founder, Network of Sex Workers of Latin America and the Caribbean (RedTraSex)

It is important to consider abortion as a social good.
–- Maeve Taylor, Director of Advocacy and Communications, Irish Family Planning Association (IFPA)

It is essential to include art in activism. Art activates empathy and allows us to understand other perspectives.
–- Yana Buhrer Tavanier, Founder and CEO of Fine Acts

Moving forward we will focus on increasing investment in data management and improving health information systems to effectively track the performance of FP and SRH programmes.
–- Matelita Vakarau Seva, Excutive Director of RHAF

For a social movement to be successful we have to activate the sympathizers, neutralize the antagonists and attract the persuadables.
–- Mónica Roa, Colombian lawyer

Client feedback mechanisms are central to the delivery of client centered services.
–- Dr Anjum Rizvi, Director of Programmes, FPAP

As youth, we must realise that we are not the future, we are the now. And if we do not take charge of our lives, especially by advocating for sexual health, particularly reproductive health, then there will be no future for us.
–- Kimberly Gilbert, CHAMP Youth Officer, Family Planning Association of Trinidad & Tobago

From the get go, involve young people. We should show young people how to even look out for the positives of CSE at the community level, so that we know at the grassroots we are generating evidence from there. So that when the opposition does come we have some good information about how CSE has benefited young people. Providing young people the capacity to do that will be important for me.
–- Irene Amponsah Siaw, Acting Executive Secretary, Ghana SRHR Alliance for Young People

In all countries where CSE was scaled up it rested on 3 major elements: one, political leaders set up the political basis; two, there was a partnership between government and NGOs that manage the implementation together; and three, there is support of society
–- Dr. Venkatraman Chandra-Mouli, Adolescents and at-Risk Populations Team, Department of Reproductive Health and Research, World Health Organization

Communication processes must go from being considered as tactical and operative to being thought of as strategic.
–- SWIMMING WITH SHARKS: RECONSTRUCTING NARRATIVES ROUNDTABLE

As a black woman living in a western context not built for me, we need to be cognisant that we ask people of colour every day to come up with solutions to a problem they didn’t create.
–- Bassey Nyambi, Director, Global Partnerships, Planned Parenthood Federation of America

It is essential that we are building better programmes and improving service delivery; expanding the method mix and strengthening supply chains to ensure uninterrupted delivery of FP and SRH services.
– Mande Limbu, Director of Global Initiatives, FP2030

Social Enterprise activity and its various benefits is what kept us going during the pandemic the last 18 months.
–- Thushara Agus, Executive Director, FPA Sri Lanka

Socio economic challenges cannot be addressed by philanthropy alone.
–- Dr.Walter Mswaka, Associate Professor- Social Entrepreneurship, Rollins College

Talking about abortion means talking about freedom, the future, the possibility of choice and free sexuality.
–- Sabrina Cartabia, Chief of Staff, Undersecretary of Gender And Sexual Diversity Policies at the Ministry of Women, Gender and Sexual Diversity Policies of the Province of Buenos Aires

Cross movement solidarity acknowledges the intersectionality of our movements and that we all need to be free in order for us to have a more equal and diverse world.
–- Neish McLean, Chair, Nominations and Governance Committee

Health for all – nobody should be discriminated against or denied access to health based on their gender, sexuality, bodily appearance, caste, colour or religion. We need to see health from the human rights angle.
––Abhina Aher, Chair of Strategy, Investment and Policy Committee, IPPF

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