LONDON - The global health orgalnisation, Avenir Health, hosted an Expert Advisory Group meeting on Tracking Family Planning Expenditures in London, to which EPF was invited.
The Expert Advisory Group on International Family Planning Expenditures meets once or twice a year to provide advice to Track20 and FP2020 on data used to track family planning expenditures by donors and in FP2020 focus countries. Its purpose is to review available data, advise on how the data should be used and recommend future actions to produce better estimates in the future.
The meeting considered four main topics: spending by domestic governments, spending by international donors, estimates of global spending including out-of-pocket and commitments to FP2020.
All were reminded that although there is no formal mechanism to track these commitments in a consistent manner, instead there is a range of accountability frameworks that include self-reports and tracking activities. Moreover, the full set of commitments are detailed on the FP2020 website.
As for the next steps, it was stated that all the available data will be reviewed at the next meeting of this group, scheduled to take place on 27 June in New York, and final decisions will be taken about which data to report.
