Publication:
We are pleased to present our new accountability report, Donors Delivering for SRHR, which is the fruit of extensive reflections, analyses and consultations with experts including our strategic advisory committee. In these critical times, we are confident Donors Delivering for SRHR will provide both European policymakers and advocates in the field with a new tool to track the full SRHR agenda, based on the SRHR definition published by the landmark report from the Guttmacher – Lancet Commission and on the updated Muskoka 2 Methodology developed by the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM).
We have witnessed increased contestation of SRHR, gender equality and women‘s rights in Europe and throughout the world. In parallel, numerous reports highlight the increased prevalence of harmful practices, especially on girls, as well as an increase in teenage pregnancy rates. The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated these challenges, shining a spotlight on the need to focus on SRHR.
2020 is also a key milestone to assess the translation of political commitments into actional funding: with the anniversaries of Beijing+25 and ICPD, the end of the Family Planning (FP) 2020 framework and the start of the last decade to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), in particular SDG 3 on health and SDG 5 on gender equality so linked to SRHR.
While several excellent expert reports exist to track funding for reproductive, maternal and newborn health, family planning and gender, no methodology has thus far captured the full breadth of SRHR, especially the ‘rights’ aspect. Donors Delivering for SRHR brings a complementary approach with changes made to our previous Euromapping methodology.
This year‘s edition reveals some unexpected rankings where larger countries and donors are not necessarily spending in relative terms thus showing a lack of political prioritisation, a stabilisation of the funding on our issues and a potential stagnation.
We thank the advisory committee for their support in exploring this new methodology and hope that this report will prove useful to European SRHR advocates and champions, in renewing political commitments and, more importantly, translating them into actions.
Please find the complete Donors Delivering Report below.
The official Press Release is available here.