The UN Population Division on Oct. 20, 2016 released three new data outputs on family planning: World Contraceptive Use 2016 data set, Model-based Estimates and Projections of Family Planning Indicators 2016, and Number of women who are married or in a union 2016.

This inaugural report on the global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is a first accounting of where the world stands at the start of our collective journey to 2030. The report analyses selected indicators from the global indicator framework for which data are available as examples to highlight some critical gaps and challenges.

The year 2016 is a critical year for adolescent sexual and reproductive health, when two key global health strategies – the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the United Nations Global Strategy for Women’s, Children’s and Adolescents’ Health – are being put into effect.

Adolescent sexuality has long been equated with risk and danger. However, throughout the presentations, it became clear that ASRH and related promotion efforts are broadening on different levels: from risk to well-being, from targeted and individual to comprehensive and structural, from knowledge transfer to innovative tools.

Review key family planning indicator data from the PMA2020 program for Makassar and South Sulawesi, Indonesia.

The Guttmacher Institute has issued a list of recommended indicators to be used globally to measure progress towards the Sustainable Development Goal targets related to sexual and reproductive health and rights.

The Uganda Commitments Initiative is a country-driven approach which aims to accelerate progress towards RH commodity security by taking a limited number of fundamental RH supplies-related commitments as the entry point for the targeted joint technical action at the country level.

In light of advocacy efforts to reach the poorest with better health services, an examination of recent history reveals that overall the poor-rich gap in contraceptive use is already narrowing substantially, and more so where family planning programs are stronger.

This fact sheet analyzes national DHS data on the use of modern methods of contraception (mCPR) over time in Benin.

This fact sheet analyzes national DHS data on the use of modern methods of contraception (mCPR) over time in Bolivia.