WHO/RHR, in collaboration with USAID and UNFPA, supports a growing partnership of 37 international agencies known as the IBP Initiative. This partnership was initiated in 1999 and formalized as a Consortium through a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the WHO/RHR) in 2003.
Review report summarizing a decade of activities
The IBP partnership is dedicated to strengthening the capacity of the reproductive health/family planning community to identify, implement, and scale-up best practices through sharing knowledge and resources, minimizing duplication, and promoting collaboration.
Commit to improving the quality of family planning maternal health, adolescent health, child health, gender equity and prevention and management of sexually transmitted infections including HIV.
IBP partners work collaboratively to reduce duplication and harmonize approaches at the
global and country level to scale up effective
practice.
Is a network that consists of and connects reproductive health professionals and advocates throughout the world through their work at the global, regional and country level and through our virtual networks. Find out more about partnership
In 2011 the IBP partners start a second decade of activities. Review our 2011 – 2016 Strategy and Results Based Plan.
As partners, we commit to working collaboratively to improve access to and the quality of maternal and neonatal health, family planning, adolescent health, gender equity and the integration of STI/HIV prevention and care.
See the
WHO/Lancet articles:
Reproductive
health a matter of life and death
The IBP partnership will be a proven leader for advancing the scale up of effective practices that contribute to universal access to and sustained quality of reproductive health/family planning services.
Link to vision statement PDF
IBP partners with support
from WHO/RHR developed the Knowledge Gateway to support virtual
knowledge networks that now reach every country of the world.
Through
these virtual networks we link with other professionals within and
across countries to share and exchange knowledge and experience and
resource materials and tools.Our goal is to improve access to
information and build on experience to inform and transform practice
As a partnership we support improvement performance and change management techniques that facilitate the implementation, scale-up and sustained use of reproductive health/family planning effective practices at country level
Link to strategy document Link to Fostering Change Publication
International
Conference on Family Planning, Dakar, Senegal
29 November -
2 December 2011
This
conference examined cutting edge research and programmes that are
helping to advance the health and wealth of families and nations
worldwide
Family Health International"A pioneer in promoting evidence-based practices, the IBP Consortium has been instrumental in
improving reproductive health around the world. FHI’s participation as an IBP Consortium partner has contributed to many important achievements. We promoted critical global family planning standards and helped various countries update their family planning guidelines based on these standards. We identified and promoted local evidence-based practices to strengthen family planning programs in Kenya. And we helped make the 2009 International Conference on Family Planning in Kampala the resounding success that it was."
"These and many other accomplishments would not have been possible without the strong partnerships and commitment to quality that IBP has championed over the past 10 years,"
Population Council"In 2002, a consortium of international and national partners including Population Council and WHO
initiated a Post Abortion Care (PAC) Initiative for Francophone Africa to increase access and quality to PAC services in this West African region…. As programs were replicated in the following years, dissemination of materials and information was noted as a main challenge. In response, IBP served as an ideal forum to share scientific evidence, standardized guidelines and best practices between Initiative members…."
I"IBP’s role in the PAC Initiative for Francophone Africa was pertinent to the success of this regional
commitment to PAC services; IBP allowed communication and exchange of best practices between colleagues and organizations working on similar issues and overcoming similar challenges. This network also reinforced the collaborative regional effort the Initiative intended."
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health / Center for Communication Programs"The development of the Knowledge Gateway platform has enabled rapid large-scale information
exchange and transfer within the reproductive health community that was not previously possible.
Given its common goals with IBP, CCP’s global and country projects benefitted from IBP’s pioneering work in information exchange through dynamic on-line networks, which often focused on issues and technical advancements that contributed to shared objectives to improve reproductive health in developing countries. CCP also gained expertise and built capacity internally through working with IBP on a wide range of information-sharing challenges.Working together to improve access to reproductive health through the introduction, adaptation, implementation and scaling-up of best practices has limited duplication of effort among partner organizations and has resulted in greater achievements." More..
