More on Funding & Family Planning

By Contributor | April 20, 2011

As my colleague Amanda Pawloski pointed out in her previous post, the US will continue to fund UNFPA for FY 2011.

During last week’s Commission on Population and Development (in which UNFPA figures prominently), the US delegation took time at an NGO consultation to reassure the audience that funding to UNFPA would be safe from current fiscal constraints. The US delegation also assured them that President Obama has pledged to increase the amount of US funding to UNFPA to $47.5 million in 2012, as a show of his strong support for the organization’s work.

UNFPA’s work, guided by the ICPD Program of Action, is also guided by the outcome documents of the Commission on Population and Development. This year’s CPD outcome document is an indication of the organization’s priorities for the years to come: while it has no references to the importance of the family itself or how the family contributes to development, it has no less than twelve references to family planning services and commodities.

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