Capacity Building
We wish to achieve sustainable improvement in developing countries with our work. Therefore it is important to us to establish local structures which contribute to improved Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights also in the long term.
ReProductive Aid Forum
In recent years, donors have been restructuring how development aid is delivered to poor countries, with increased direct budget support to governments, “harmonized” poverty reduction strategies (PRS), and Sector-Wide Approaches (SWAps). Many of these aid instruments are non-transparent and/or confusing to civil society advocates for sexual and reproductive health (SRH). In order to actively shape and influence a country government’s spending agenda, SRH advocates need to clearly understand the new aid environment and its instruments and mechanisms.
ReProductive Aid is an internet-based global community of civil society representatives networking, learning, sharing experiences and strategizing effective ways to address SRH in the new development aid “architecture”.
Established in 2007, ReProductive Aid aimed to answer the central question of how civil society organizations - in their roles of advocates, service providers and policy/implementation watchdogs - actively influence donors at country level to increase resources for SRH services?
Excellent keynote speeches were contributed by Dr. Eckhard Deutscher, Chair of the OECD’s Development Assistance Committee; Dr. Christoph Benn, Director, Partnership, Communication and Resource Mobilization for the GFATM and Dr. Gill Greer, Director General of IPPF. Regional speakers included representatives of USAID, UNFPA, the David and Lucille Packard Foundation, the Asian Forum for Parliamentarians in Population and Development, the Uganda Regional Director of Partners for Population and Development, and a Member of the Uganda Parliament.
