Core Impact Areas & Strategic Approaches

Expertise

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core impact area
Comprehensive Abortion Care
core impact area
Contraceptive Care
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core impact area
Gender-Based Violence (GBV)
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core impact area
Maternal and Newborn Health
Choral Mauladia poses near by her cart where she sells vegetables at a local market. Street vendors face a number of difficulties, including harrassment from local officials and displacement by urban development projects. Given these threats, Choral joined the Self Employed Women's Association (SEWA), a trade union that works to secure the rights of workers in the informal sector.
strategic approach
Collaborating Across Sectors
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strategic approach
Health Systems Strengthening (HSS)
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strategic approach
Meaningful Youth Participation
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strategic approach
Transforming Gender Norms
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CORE IMPACT AREAS

Comprehensive Abortion Care 

We work to ensure that all people, especially those with the least access, can obtain high-quality, affordable, and comprehensive abortion care. Our programs focus on strengthening services, promoting self-managed care, advancing legal and policy change, and partnering with young feminist activists to expand rights and equity. 

Contraceptive Care 

We partner with health systems and communities to expand access to a full range of contraceptive options and ensure informed choice. Our work includes improving service quality, provider training, and integrating contraceptive care into broader health services, including through comprehensive sexuality education. 

Gender-Based Violence (GBV)

Our approach to preventing and addressing GBV encompasses engaging communities, including men and boys, to transform harmful gender norms; training healthcare providers and facilities to better deliver GBV services; and supporting improved multi-sectoral coordination of GBV prevention and response.

Maternal & Newborn Health

We apply a patient-centered approach to ensure that all pregnant people receive high-quality care before, during, and after childbirth. Our programs strengthen facilities and train providers to deliver essential maternal and newborn services, including antenatal care, skilled birth attendance, safe surgery, fistula prevention and treatment, and respectful postnatal care. 

STRATEGIC APPROACHES

Collaborating Across Sectors 

We work across development and humanitarian sectors to integrate SRHR into broader efforts such as education, nutrition, WASH, and economic empowerment. By building strong, multi-sectoral partnerships and addressing the intersections between health and other areas of life, we help ensure holistic, equitable, and sustainable outcomes for the communities we serve. 

Health Systems Strengthening

We work with partners to build equitable health systems and achieve goals related to universal health coverage, including improving the availability, accessibility, acceptability, and quality of services; advancing research and innovation; and promoting sustainability.

Meaningful Youth Participation

Our approach to context-specific, youth-centered programming expands access to age-appropriate information on SRHR; engages communities to create an enabling environment for improving young people’s sexual and reproductive health; advocates for supportive laws and policies; and engages young people in all phases of programming.

Transforming Gender Norms

We integrate gender-equitable approaches to ensure that all people can make informed choices and to transform gender norms and power dynamics that limit access to healthcare and impede rights.