In July 2016, the Government of the Philippines shared an update on progress in achieving its policy, financial and program and service delivery commitments to FP2020.

In 2015, the total budget allocated to implement the RPRH Law is around Philippines Peso 40.7 billion. With this amount, the national government budget continued to provide the largest share in funding the RPRH implementation.

• The DOH alone comprised more than half of this amount (53 percent) or around P21.74B from its 2015 budget. There was also substantial increase in the DOH budget allocation for RPRH-related line items compared last year. There were a total of 1630 service delivery points listed as recipients of commodities that were allocated. The allocation was based from computing unmet needs (projected data) given the lack of information on the actual FP requirements from the field level

• For 2016, the DOH proposed budget of P3,275,078,000 for FHRP, one billion of which was intended for contraceptive supplies, was cut at the Bicameral Conference. It is being replaced by the realignment of funds amounting to about PhP900M from other sources within the Family Health Office programs.

IPPF shared the following update on progress in achieving its FP2020 commitments:

IPPF is a global leader in family planning service delivery and advocacy, and has been at the vanguard of delivering comprehensive voluntary family planning services for over 60 years. IPPF is the global and regional convener and mobilizer of civil society organizations that advocate for public, political and financial commitments to voluntary family planning. In 2014, IPPF continued to unite a global movement to improve the health status of poor and young people, in particular women and girls, through an enabling family planning policy environment and access to a range of cost-effective, high-impact health services. Particularly, the Federation succeeded in securing:

• National legislative change for access to contraception: 81 successful policy initiatives and or positive legislative changes in support or defense of sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) to which Member Associations’ advocacy contributed. This included 27 increased national budget allocations for contraception, access to contraception and SRHR of vulnerable people;

• Global and regional norm setting for rights-based family planning: 18 successful regional and global policy initiatives and/or positive legislative changes in support or defense of SRHR to which IPPF’s advocacy contribute. IPPF implemented its largest-ever international advocacy program to prioritize sexual and reproductive health and rights—including rights-based family planning--within the new Sustainable Development Goals;

• Reproductive rights are human rights: 54% of Member Associations monitor obligations made by government in the international human rights treaties that they have ratified. IPPF Member Associations continue to use the United Nations Periodic Review process to raise concerns and make recommendations about sexual rights in their countries – including access to contraception.

The IPPF Member Association, Rahnuma-Family Planning Association of Pakistan (Rahnuma-FPAP) stands as an example of country impact. Rahnuma-FPAP is part of Pakistan’s national FP2020 Champions Group. Rahnuma-FPAP has agreements with national and provincial ministries, including the Ministry of National Health Services, the Population Welfare Department in Punjab, and the National Institute of Population Studies, and implements maternal and newborn child health programs in the provinces of Balochistan, Punjab and Sindh. These programs support service delivery and family planning in line with the national government’s commitment to FP2020. Rahnuma-FPAP, working with other civil society organizations, advocated for more family planning services with the provincial governments of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Punjab and Sindh. Together, these three provinces account for more than 85 per cent of the total population of Pakistan.  As a result, the provincial governments have incorporated commitments on family planning into their draft population policies and other influential policy documents; increased budgetary lines for contraception in both 2013–14 and 2014–15; allocated resources to procure contraceptives; established and reconfigured health delivery points to strengthen service reach; and increased their targets for contraceptive prevalence rates.

In July 2016, the Government of Indonesia shared an update on progress in achieving its policy, financial and program and service delivery commitments to FP2020.

The government reports performing the following activities in support of its policy and political commitment:

• Based on the Presidential Instruction on changes in planning approaches of the Government Work Plan (Rencana Kerja Pemerintah/RKP) year 2017, BKKBN has developed strategic planning that is based on holistic, thematic, integrated, and spatial approaches. In the context of a holistic approach; BKKBN will have to mobilize all potential resources of BKKBN, related government agencies and all strategic stakeholders/partners at all levels to achieve the target of the National Medium Term Development Plan (Rencana Pembangunan Jangka Menengah Nasional /RPJMN) related to Population and Family Planning, and BKKBN Strategic Plan Year 2015-2019.

In order to implement the thematic approach, BKKBN strategic program and activities will have to focus on the main theme to decrease total fertility rate by increasing contraceptive prevalence rate (CPR), lowering drop out (DO), increasing the use of long term family planning contraception method, and lowering unmet need of family planning, the government states.

 In the context of the integrated approach, BKKBN will have to develop integrated programs and activities that involve across government sectors and strategic stakeholders/partners at all levels, particularly targeted at Kampung KB areas.

 Related to the spatial approach, BKKBN will have to focus the intervention to the main target areas of FP program at the district level to better reach targeted poor communities at isolated/remote area; densely populated urban areas; fishing villages; slums and other disadvantaged areas across the sub national level.

 Based on this design of the Government Work Plan (Rencana Kerja Pemerintah/RKP) year 2017, development of the population and family planning program will focus on five (5) national priorities, among them are 1) family planning services; 2) advocacy and IEC; 3) youth; 4) family development; and 5) regulation, institutional development, data and information. All five national priorities should be developed into activities that directly touch target communities’ needs. In order to achieve these objectives, BKKBN strategic and policy direction as documented in National Medium Term Development Plan for year 2015 – 2019, highlight the importance of:

• Strengthening and integrating FP & RH services policy;
• Increasing access to FP services: Ensuring availability of commodity security in all SDPs – SCM and LMIS
• Promoting LAPM services to potential LAPM acceptors by providing adequate information and improving quality assurance of FP services to reduce drop-out risk;
• Increasing number & improving capacity of FP field workers and enhancing local institutional capacity to support FP Program;
• Developing and promoting national advocacy and communication strategies for decision makers focusing on the major unmet needs and unreached groups;
• Maintaining family resilience through beyond family development group activities in order to preserve FP participation and initiate community participation to become FP acceptors; and
• Strengthening management of Population and FP development.

Further to support these policies, BKKBN in the future will focus supporting priority activities at field level by reviving activities in village level. Various priority activities to be developed at field level are:

• Mobilizing family planning and reproductive health services at all levels, especially for mobilizing long-acting and reversible contraceptive services;
• Improving the provision of family planning and reproductive health services particularly to poor communities at isolated/remote area; densely populated urban areas; fishing villages; slums and other disadvantaged areas across sub national level;
• Increasing advocacy and IEC activities and counseling on health and the rights of reproduction to communities;
• Improving operational mechanism at field level especially for the mobilization FP Field Workers/Cadres
• Strengthening the function of Counseling Center as the Control Center for operational mechanism at field level;
• Implementing integrated priority activities across government sectors and strategic stakeholders/partners at "Kampung KB";
• Strengthening advocacy and IEC of FP Program to engage across government sectors and strategic stakeholders/partners to reach major unmet needs and unreached groups;
• Strengthening Data and Information Systems with focus on the IDHS in 2017 as a measure of program success over the last five years; and
• Improving pre-marriage counselling by involving religious leaders and community leaders.

• BKKBN will also strengthen revitalization of family planning through the implementation of “Kampung KB” initiatives at sub national level as mandated by President Joko Widodo during the 2016 International Conference on Family Planning. Under the  Kampung  KB  initiative, BKKBN will collaborate across government agencies and strategic stakeholders to develop  a range  of  multi-sectoral advocacy and collaboration activities  to ensure  better  access  to  family  planning  services  particularly to LARCs for poor communities in isolated areas; densely populated urban areas; fishing villages; slums and other disadvantaged areas across sub national level. The target in year 2016 is 1 Kampung KB per district/municipality

The government of Indonesia supported South-to-South cooperation and learning by establishing the Center of Excellence of Comprehensive Rights-based FP at Gadjah Mada University, Yogyakarta.

In July 2016, the Government of Ghana shared an update on progress in achieving its policy, financial and program and service delivery commitments to FP2020.

The government reports performing the following activities in support of its policy and political commitment: 

• The National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA) law has been amended to include family planning (FP) in the benefit package. Full cost estimates including projections were submitted to NHIA in 2014/2015 and the NHIA has made a commitment in writing that includes all FP clinical methods. Currently the NHIS is undergoing restructuring after which implementation will begin.

IPPF Member Association the Planned Parenthood Association of Ghana (PPAG) played a very active role in making contraception free in the public sector. The Association participated in the Contraceptive Security Committee, which plays a leading role in finding solutions to challenges to contraceptive availability. In 2013, the government added contraception to the list of free services provided to women as part of maternal health care.