Knowledge Success Blog

FP2030’s North, West, and Central Africa Hub, based in Abuja, Nigeria, aims to enhance family planning through youth engagement. The Adolescent and Youth Strategy focuses on innovative service delivery, data-driven decision-making, and empowering youth leadership to address high teenage pregnancy rates and unmet contraceptive needs in the region.

Abhinav Pandey from the YP Foundation in India, emphasizes the importance of knowledge management (KM) in enhancing youth-led initiatives. Through his experiences as a KM Champion, he has integrated strategies like knowledge cafes and resource sharing to improve family planning and reproductive health programs across Asia, fostering collaboration among diverse organizations.

The Safe Love initiative (India) by the Centre for Catalyzing Change (C3) (and with support from the Packard Foundation and TrulyMadly) leverages a popular Indian dating app to provide young people with essential sexual and reproductive health information, focusing on safer sex practices, contraceptive methods, and STI prevention. This project aims to educate and empower young

The ICPD30 Global Dialogue on Technology, held in New York in June 2024, aimed to harness the transformative power of technology to advance women's rights. Key takeaways include the potential of feminist-centered technology to address gender-based violence and inequalities, the need for intersectional feminist approaches to technology development, and the importance of government and tech corporations

Knowledge SUCCESS, in collaboration with the WHO/IBP Network, is featuring implementation stories that showcase implementers who have successfully navigated complexities to deliver impactful outcomes. This feature story on the Heroes for Gender Transformative Action Program (Heroes4GTA).

The Research for Scalable Solutions and SMART-HIPs projects—hosted a four-part webinar series on Advancing Measurement of High Impact Practices (HIPs) in Family Planning. The webinar series aimed to share new insights and tools that can strengthen how HIP implementation is measured in order to support strategic decision-making.

Held on May 15-16, 2024 in Dhaka, Bangladesh, the ICPD30 Global Dialogue on Demographic Diversity and Sustainable Development focused on how our world's changing demographics impact sustainable development, with a special emphasis on promoting gender equality, advancing sexual and reproductive health and rights, and achieving the Sustainable Development Goals.

In April 2024, United Nations Population Fund hosted the ICPD30 Global Youth Dialogue in Cotonou, Benin. The dialogue provided a unique platform for youth activists, policymakers, and regional and intergovernmental organizations to collaborate on sexual and reproductive health and rights, education, human rights, and gender equality.