Goals

WPF as a whole is aiming for the full implementation of the Programme of Action as defined at the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD).

Poor sexual and reproductive health accounts for 18% of the global burden of disease. Among women of reproductive age sexual and reproductive ill-health accounts for one third (32%) of the global burden of disease. Of all development indicators those for reproductive health reveal the largest gap between low income and developed countries and between rich and poor people within countries.
Without the realisation of sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR), not one Millennium Development Goal will be reached. SRHR is both a goal in itself as well as an instrument in reaching other goals, particularly those on gender equality and women’s empowerment, child mortality, maternal health and HIV/AIDS.

Since its inception, WPF conducts advocacy and awareness raising activities to mobilise support for the realisation of SRHR at national, European and international level and will continue to do so. Target groups are Dutch policymakers, Dutch and European parliamentarians, Dutch-European and international NGOs and, through the communications department and the MYBODY campaign, the Dutch general public. Supporting advocacy activities in selected developing countries recently started to mobilise political and financial support for SRHR through capacity building of local NGOs and stakeholders in the area of advocacy for SRHR.

Through advocacy, WPF aims to create a supportive environment in which people can their own individual, informed choice about their sexual lives and of the number and spacing of their children The main goals in this area are: to promote and protect rights of young people, including their right to participate, to guarantee correct and complete information and services for all, to prevent unintended pregnancy and unsafe abortion, to stop (sexual) violence against women and girls and to abolish female genital mutilation.