Organizational Results

In partnership with governmental and non-governmental organizations, EngenderHealth supported delivering high-quality, comprehensive contraceptive and abortion care as part of SRHR services. From July 2024 to June 2025, through EngenderHealth-supported services, we helped approximately 1,248,800 clients access high-quality contraceptive care and generated an estimated 3,369,500 couple years of protection. Our work also helped avert an estimated 1,652,900 unintended pregnancies, 430,400 unsafe abortions, 1,600 maternal deaths, and 29,800 child deaths. In addition, we contributed to direct healthcare cost savings of approximately $127,839,100.

EngenderHealth collaborates with local partners to foster awareness about SRHR at the community level, utilizing direct channels such as peer-to-peer outreach, home visits, and participation in community events. This approach enables us to establish meaningful connections and cultivate community trust, fostering long-term, positive transformations. In FY25, EngenderHealth directly reached nearly 4.6 million people with SRHR messaging, including messaging on abortion, contraception, GBV, and other health topics. In addition, we extended our outreach to individuals indirectly through mass media initiatives to advocate for SRHR.

In FY25, EngenderHealth supported approximately 1,248,800 clients to adopt a contraceptive method of their choice, including an estimated 264,800 young people under age 25. In addition, our projects supported the provision of 41,854 comprehensive abortion and postabortion services, 37,001 obstetric surgeries, and 356 fistula repair surgeries. Across countries, we also supported services for survivors of 95,135 GBV incidents. Most (79%) GBV incidents were reported by female clients, including 31% of which were for female clients under the age of 20.

Ensuring that health systems provide high-quality, gender-equitable SRHR services is fundamental to positive change; therefore, we work with governments to achieve sustainable and equitable health impacts. Our core activities include supporting the integration of gender-transformative and inclusive programming throughout health systems, transitioning health facility oversight to governments, strengthening the capacity of healthcare staff, government officials, and influential leaders in the community, and fostering client satisfaction with SRHR services. Read our strategy for health systems strengthening, which we developed in FY24.

In FY25, EngenderHealth supported skills development for a range of healthcare staff, training more than 7,800 clinical staff (doctors, nurses, midwives, and others) and 23,700 pharmacists and associates across 17 projects. EngenderHealth also trained 18,000 community leaders and youth, including peer educators, male champions, religious leaders, and law enforcement officers.

Positive policy changes can transform systems, creating a stronger and more equitable environment for health and healthcare.

In FY25, EngenderHealth and our partners supported 19 policy changes across 6 countries, contributing to new or revised government policies, strategies, guidelines, curricula, and budget allocations.

Through these efforts, we increased domestic financing, clarified legal and clinical guidance, and improved readiness of health, education, and justice systems to deliver inclusive, responsive care across contraception, comprehensive abortion care (CAC), maternal and newborn health (MNH), and gender-based violence (GBV) prevention and response.

Throughout FY25, EngenderHealth advanced equity-driven SRHR solutions by convening partners, shaping dialogue, and promoting evidence-informed action globally and locally during a period of profound sector-wide disruption.

As traditional funding models shifted, EngenderHealth contributed to reimagining how institutions collaborate, share power, and sustain impact in a rapidly changing environment. EngenderHealth engaged in initiatives such as the Future of Family Planning convening in Washington, D.C., the Global Learning Agenda for Adolescent Contraception, and the Transforming Institutional Models for Equity (TIME) initiative, driving practical equity, decolonization, and adaptation in development practice.

Internally, we refreshed our 2030 Organizational Strategy, clarifying six approaches to guide rights-based, people-centered, and locally led programming.

In the United States and globally, EngenderHealth also contributed to cross-sector working groups and public dialogue that bridged maternal health, SRHR, and reproductive justice movements.

Together, these efforts demonstrate EngenderHealth’s role in leading through change: supporting collective learning, reinforcing collaboration, and advancing long-term impact even amid uncertainty.

EngenderHealth advances its mission by building lasting, equitable partnerships that center shared ownership and results. We play a catalytic role—convening actors, amplifying partner leadership, and supporting co-design and joint implementation.

Living into our values, we partnered with approximately 87 organizations in the past year, including 22 new partners. Of the 25 projects where EngenderHealth was the lead implementing partner, 21 (84%) engaged at least one local civil society organization.