Washington, DC (March 23, 2015) – Family Planning 2020 (FP2020), the global partnership dedicated to improving access to family planning information, services, and supplies, today announced its latest cohort of Reference Group members, who include newly added countries Niger and Tanzania. Members will convene for the first time in April in New Delhi, India. “The Reference Group members are essential stewards of the FP2020 movement,” said Beth Schlachter, FP2020’s interim Executive Director. “They play a key role in not only driving progress towards FP2020 commitments, but also in bringing the needs and concerns of their constituencies to the table.”

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Today, Prof. Fred H.K. Segor and other senior officials gathered in Nairobi to showcase Kenya’s progress toward expanding contraceptive access and options and to highlight innovative public-private partnerships that are accelerating efforts to increase access to voluntary and quality family planning to save and improve the lives of women and infants. Additional speakers at the event represented the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI), Bayer HealthCare and Jhpiego, an affiliate of The Johns Hopkins University.

This gathering comes just over a year after the July 2012 London Summit on Family Planning, where global leaders committed to provide an additional 120 million women and girls in the world’s poorest countries with voluntary access to modern contraceptive information, services and supplies by 2020.

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