2024 Impact Brief
Incubating, Convening, and Defending Sexual and Reproductive Health. Planned Parenthood Global, working across 10 countries and 80 local partner organizations, incubates, convenes, and defends brave individuals, organizations, coalitions, and movements. Through dynamic partnerships, technical expertise, and flexible funding, our efforts drive innovation to advance sexual and reproductive health and rights globally.
We're Backing the Brave
For 50 years, Planned Parenthood Global has partnered with brave on-the-ground leaders to spark and sustain progress at the leading edge of the movement for sexual and reproductive health and rights. Our locally led and globally connected model drives advocacy and accountability to secure the services and access all people deserve.
Read more about our partnership model, its impact, and our vision for the future in our brochure, Backing the Brave.
Celebrating our 50th Anniversary: A Historical Timeline
For more than half a century, Planned Parenthood Global has partnered with courageous leaders around the world to spark and sustain progress for sexual and reproductive health and rights. We have seen powerful change when people and organizations come together to work toward common goals, as shown in our historical timeline.
Global Solidarity Statement in Response to the Erosion of Abortion Access and Rights in the U.S.
Where We Work
Our unique sustainability model sets us apart.
In partnership with more than 70+ organizations across Africa and Latin America, we back brave actors, policies, and movements to advance reproductive health and rights, with an emphasis on the most under-resourced and underserved communities.
Learn more about our focus countries below.
Read our commitment to supporting the global movement for sexual reproductive health and rights.
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In a Planned Parenthood Global report, experts detail the harmful effects of the global gag rule
On January 23rd, 2019 the second anniversary of former President Trump’s executive order that not only brought back but greatly expanded the reach of the harmful policy known as the global gag rule, Planned Parenthood Global launched a report entitled “Assessing the Global Gag Rule: Harms to Health, Communities, and Advocacy.”
IDEA Initiative
We are Planned Parenthood Global’s social innovation lab for reproductive rights in Latin America.
The IDEA Initiative is designed to motivate the entrepreneur, technology, communications and social impact investment ecosystems to explore creativity, innovation and talent to transform ideas into solutions for the most stubborn and entrenched issues in health and reproductive rights in Latin America.
IT’S LEGAL!
The past five years changed history in Ecuador when the country held a political and public debate to decriminalize abortion in cases of rape and other grounds. On April 28, 2021, the Constitutional Court declared unconstitutional the article that criminalized abortion in cases of rape, except for women with mental disabilities, paving the way for all people who are survivors of sexual violence to freely access abortion.
Do You Need Health Services?
If you're in the U.S., find a health center and book an appointment by calling 1-800-230- PLAN. If you need health services outside the U.S., visit IPPF’s website for a comprehensive list of global member associations.