EuroMapping is a joint study by DSW and the EPF that scrutinises EU countries' development aid for population assistance and reproductive health, both in terms of their pledged commitments and actual disbursements. (Reproductive health refers to sexually transmitted infections such as HIV/AIDS, maternal death and disability, family planning and gender-based violence). It “names and shames” good and bad performers, and includes specific recommendations on how to improve reproductive health and reduce poverty. The 2010 edition of the EuroMapping has been improved to include exhaustive data on population assistance, including country profiles for the world’s 24 biggest donors. The findings of EuroMapping offer a unique overview of how European donors contribute to the four categories of population assistance that were established in 1994: Basic reproductive Health Services, Family Planning, STDs and HIV/AIDS and basic research. The study also includes an estimation of the funding gap of almost $55 billion that must be filled between 2009 and 2015 if we want to avert 70% of maternal deaths, 44% of newborn deaths and 73% of unsafe abortions that are happening today by 2015.

 European countries and the European Union collectively make up the world’s biggest aid donors, responsible for 64.6% of global Official Development Assistance. But in the field of population assistance they are failing to keep up with the USA. The EU is responsible for about 43% of health ODA, but only funds a mere 5.2 % of the global project expenditures in family planning. Over the past decade international donors have shown willingness to devote ODA to some population issues. Spending on Sexually Transmitted Diseases and HIV/AIDS is eight times greater now than it was in 2001. But spending on basic reproductive health services has only doubled in the same period, and for family planning it has hardly increased at all. For this reason reproductive health and family planning organisations are now asking donors to match the increases in funding that HIV/AIDS programmes have seen. Furthermore whilst the USA dedicated over 335 million dollars to ODA in the field of family planning in 2008, the biggest individual European spender was Germany, who spent less than 18 million dollars.

 EuroMapping provides clear, comparable and reliable data on the current state of global ODA, health ODA and population flows, which are critical elements in realizing Millennium Development Goals 4, 5 and 6. Decision-makers and advocates should have the necessary tools and information about their government’s performance to be able to supplement the findings of EuroMapping and build fact-based advocacy, which will be vital in persuading governments to meet the pledges agreed in Cairo in 1994, and in the Millennium Declaration in 2000. It is our hope that EuroMapping will prove to be a useful tool to empower those who support political change that places maternal and newborn health higher on the political agenda.

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