International Planned Parenthood Federation
/OVERVIEW: The International Planned Parenthood Federation’s (IPPF) global health spending predominantly funds its affiliates — reproductive health service providers in countries around the world; however, on occasion, the IPPF awards smaller grants to organizations whose missions and projects complement IPPF’s.
IP TAKE: Because the IPPF has its own service providers to carry out its mission, it is unlikely to fund an organization that duplicates its efforts. However, grant seekers who can enhance its standing should keep an eye out for the foundation’s occasional calls for proposals. It is an otherwise open-minded funder that is laser-focused on its mission. Your proposal should be intersectional or aligned with gender justice through health to increase changes for funding.
PROFILE: The International Planned Parenthood Federation is a renowned funder of reproductive health. Established in 1952 by eight national family planning associations, the IPPF seeks to “lead a locally owned, globally connected civil society movement that provides and enables services and champions sexual and reproductive health and rights for all, especially the underserved.” Practicing accountability and an intersectional approach, the IPPF devotes a majority of its annual budget to member associations around the world. These sister associations include Planned Parenthood Federation of America. Each organization carries out IPPF’s core mission: making sexual and reproductive health services safe and accessible to all, regardless of sexual orientation, race or religion.
Grants for Global Health, Women and Girls
The IPPF names four funding priorities in its global health grantmaking: women and girls, youth, the poor and vulnerable and humanitarian work. It conducts funding through an intersectional, gender lens.
Grants for women and girls support organizations that protect women’s “basic human rights,” especially the ability to protect themselves from “STIs, unplanned pregnancies or gender-based violence,” through sexual education and advocacy initiatives. Grants for youth go to programs that target people under the age of 25 and are particularly concerned with teen pregnancy and sexual education.
Grants for the poor and vulnerable target developing countries with high rates of “maternal and child mortality,” “unmet need for contraception,” “HIV prevalence,” and “early marriage and childbearing.” Finally, grants for humanitarian work go to provide sexual and reproductive health services in areas affected by crises such as civil unrest, war, and natural disasters.
Although the IPPF predominantly funds reproductive health and justice-related projects, it also supports grantmaking in other areas of global health as they relate to reproduction and innovation, such as the Innovation Fund, which supports grantees that innovate in the area of reproductive and sexual rights. Grant seekers should closely read the IPPF’s Approach page, which offers an in-depth look at its most recent programs, partnerships and related work.
Important Grant Details
Although it focuses on funding its affiliated associations, the IPPF also funds organizations whose work aligns with its reproductive health focuses. For a closer look at the IPPF’s funding priorities, read its detailed Strategic Framework.
The IPPF funds its affiliated associations, and sometimes funds large INGOs (in the millions) whose work complement’s and raises the profile of its own. The IPPF does not accept unsolicited proposals.
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