Strategy
WPF aims to realise Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR) and reduce poverty in developing countries by using three strategies:
The main approach of WPF in all three strategies is the rights-based approach.
Direct Poverty Reduction
WPF’s support in the implementation of direct interventions and best practices – implemented in developing countries in close collaboration with partner organisations - fall under the strategy of direct poverty reduction.
The activities related to the effective implementation of sexuality education or life-skills education in schools, projects focusing on eliminating gender based violence and safe motherhood are examples of such interventions.
In the view of WPF, sexual and reproductive health and rights should ideally be embedded in programmes of mainstream institutions. Other NGO’s, active in sectors such as education or health, or working with marginalized groups such as refugees, often find it difficult to address sexual and reproductive rights and health and look elsewhere for know-how and effective approaches. WPF makes this specific expertise available to interested mainstream organisations through “best practices”.
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Institutional Development
Institutional development to improve democratic structures and organisations with the aim to realise effective participation in social, economical and political decision making, is addressed by WPF in several ways.
WPF encourages the mobilisation of broad based activism – including advocacy and awareness-raising activities - for SRHR in developing countries, by training, capacity building and mobilisation of different target groups (NGOs, parliamentarians, policy-makers, media, academia, religious leaders) and supporting the creation of networks.
Additionally, WPF promotes and supports active and meaningful youth participation and youth advocacy for SRHR.
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Advocacy
WPF conducts advocacy and awareness-raising activities to mobilise and activate decision-makers and key stakeholders (policymakers, parliamentarians, civil society, UN organisations and the general public) for the full implementation of the ICPD (International Conference on Population and Development) Programme of Action as part of realizing the Millennium Development Goals. In this respect, WPF is working at national, European and international level.
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