Global Partnerships & Platforms

Advance Family Planning

Supporting locally led family planning advocacy

Advance Family Planning

For 14 years, the Advance Family Planning (AFP) advocacy initiative worked to achieve the global goal of expanding access to quality, voluntary contraceptive information, services, and supplies. With partners worldwide, AFP’s locally led, evidence-based efforts achieved significant funding, policy, and visibility wins for family planning and reproductive health. Coalitions in Africa, Asia, and Latin America refined and used AFP’s SMART Advocacy approach to mobilize $186 million in domestic resources from governments and the private sector and achieve 3,454 advocacy wins. These type of wins are critical to ensuring that individuals, communities, and nations regard family planning as fundamental to universal health coverage and achieving the Sustainable Development Goals.

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Comprising multiple partner organizations worldwide, AFP aims to achieve the global goal of expanding access to quality contraceptive information, services, and supplies.

More than 300 organizations across 42 countries are using the SMART (Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Relevant, and Time-bound) Advocacy approach developed and refined within the W.H. Gates Senior Institute.

The SMART Advocacy approach focuses on opportunities that have the highest potential for success in the near term. It intuitively connects short-term advocacy strategies and wins with broad, long-term goals. The approach transforms the way advocates and coalitions maximize their time and funds to effectively persuade those in power to act to accelerate progress in health and rights. Learn more about SMART Advocacy here.