About Global Partners

Planned Parenthood's Global Partners is Planned Parenthood Federation of America's international public policy and service initiative. One way Global Partners works to promote sexual and reproductive health rights is by arranging "partnerships" between Planned Parenthood affiliates and family planning organizations in other countries. 

There are two main objectives to these partnerships. One is to improve and expand service delivery and sexual health education in the communities the "partners" serve. This objective is met through the exchange of information. In a colleague-to-colleague collaboration, the partners share their experiences, trade skills, and ultimately learn from each other how to strengthen their respective programs. 

Another goal is the mobilization of a lasting constituency for US assistance and technical support to family planning programmes abroad. To date, almost twenty such partnerships have been formed among agencies from Africa, Asia, Latin America, the Caribbean, and Europe.

Global Partners Initiative -Programme Implementation Grant, Zambia

Global Partners is an initiative of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA) which brings US-based Planned Parenthood Affiliates together with SRH providers in other countries, forging first hand connections between communities. With PPFA support, MSCISA works in partnership with Zambia’s Family Life Movement, Planned Parenthood Association and Ministry of Sport, Youth & Child Development to improve the sexual & reproductive health of young people in Misisi & Kalingalinga Compounds. 

Achievements during the first quarter:

• National FLE curriculum expanded to include male SRH concerns, mother-to-child-transmission of HIV, and VCT

• 10 Master Trainers prepared to train community educators as peer educators in both project sites

• Christian FLE curriculum developed for Zambian context

• 9 Religious Leaders prepared to integrate family life education in church based activities in both project cites