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A group of people march on a street holding signs supporting reproductive justice. Text on the image reads "We're ready for this moment. The fight for reproductive justice just got harder. We know what to do. Impact Report 2024." The Ipas logo is at the bottom.
February 19, 2025

For over 50 years, Ipas has worked to ensure that reproductive health care, including abortion and contraception, are available and accessible to all. In this report, we’re proud to share some of the key impacts of our work in 2024.

Orange and white cover of a report titled "The Geneva Consensus Declaration in Action" by Ipas. Text mentions the focus on why advocates and policymakers should be concerned, with a circular emblem on the right. Background features abstract patterns.
November 26, 2024

Why advocates and policymakers should be concerned, and what can be done

Infographic titled "The PMAC Story" discussing women's and pharmacists' experiences with post-medication abortion services in Kenya. It includes key insights, background, project phases, and roles of women and pharmacists. Contains logos and text.
November 20, 2024

These learning briefs – a project anchor brief, a user-focused brief, and a pharmacist-focused brief – summarize lessons learned by the PMAC project during multiple phases of the project.

Flyer titled "Measurement of Abortion Knowledge, Attitudes, Practices, and Intentions (KAPI): Guidance for the application of survey items developed by Ipas." It includes sections on the survey's purpose and components.
October 30, 2024

The Abortion Knowledge, Attitudes, Practices, and Intentions (KAPI) Survey with optional add-on supplements, developed by Ipas, is a comprehensive resource designed to assess and enhance community understanding, attitudes and support around abortion care.

A group of individuals sit in a circle outdoors, engaging in discussion. The image, titled "Impacts of the climate crisis on communities" from a research brief, includes logos of Ipas Africa Alliance and other organizations at the bottom.
October 21, 2024

Our research shows how people and the health system in Samburu County, Kenya, are impacted in numerous ways by the climate crisis—and articulates how healthy people and communities are more resilient to the impacts of climate change.

A group of women and children gather in a hospital setting. The text reads, "The Magnitude and Severity of Abortion-Related Complications: Referral Hospital in Jigawa State, a fragile setting – Results of the AMoCo study." The image features logos of various organizations.
August 26, 2024

Referral Hospital in Jigawa State, a fragile setting–Results of the AMoCo study

October 16, 2023

On October 17-18, 2023, the United Nations Human Rights Committee reviews U.S. compliance with the ICCPR, including the impact of Dobbs on its human rights obligations. Global Justice Center, State Innovation Exchange, Amnesty International, Ipas, Human Rights Watch, RH Impact, and Obstetricians for Reproductive Justice submitted this report to the Committee that details the human rights violations caused by Dobbs in the U.S.

A dark-toned image shows the White House with large white text above it reading "PROJECT 2025: An Anti-Gender Promise to Upend Foreign Assistance and Multilateralism." The bottom edge features an orange and blue crossed pattern, and "Ipas" is marked in the top left corner.
July 30, 2024

This report focuses on the damage Project 2025 would have on overseas development assistance and international cooperation.

A factsheet titled "Accelerating Contraceptive Uptake Through Post-Pregnancy Care Models in India," detailing methods to increase contraceptive use. It includes a summary, key insights from formative research, and a chart on the motivation for contraceptive use post-unintended pregnancy.
July 15, 2024

These two learning products – a project brief and a technical brief – describe the Ipas Development Foundation’s work to increase contraceptive uptake and continuation after self-managed medical abortion.

An infographic titled "Scaling Post-Pregnancy Contraception Solutions through a Supportive Market System in Pakistan." It details a Market Systems Development Plan (MSDP) focusing on diagnosis, design, and intervention plans for February 2024.
July 15, 2024

These three learning products — a market systems development plan (MSDP) overview, a workshop event summary, and a low fidelity process infographic — document our project’s efforts to understand, describe, and enhance the post-medication abortion contraceptive market in Pakistan

An image of a document titled "The Received Social Support Scale (R3S) for Abortion Care Seekers" by Ipas. The document describes a 9-item tool measuring social support for people seeking abortion care, with information on its use, design, and language availability.
July 3, 2024

The Received Social Support Scale (R3S) is a 9-item tool designed to measure social support received by people seeking abortion care.

May 13, 2024

Child marriage, teenage pregnancy and school dropout are intricately linked and present serious, interrelated challenges for girls globally—and in Africa. An effec­tive, holistic framework to use in addressing these challenges is the “CTS nexus,” which refers to the connections and interactions between child marriage, teen pregnancy and school dropout.

April 17, 2024

In this report, we are proud to share some of the key impacts of our work in 2023. 

March 22, 2024

Piloted in Guatemala in 2023 and formally launched in Uganda in February 2024, Protego is a threat to existing international human rights frameworks.

The image shows a skyscraper with the text "MISSION CREEP: Expanding Attacks on Gender Threaten the United Nations" overlaying it. The logo "Ipas" is in the top left corner. Flags wave at the building's base.
March 8, 2024

This executive summary provides an overview of findings from a forthcoming 2024 report, Mission Creep: Expanding Attacks on Gender Threaten the United Nations. It provides key findings and recommendations as to how feminist activists, government representatives, and UN officials can prepare an intersectional human rights response that is cross-cutting, bold, and prepared to defend the universality of human rights.

January 23, 2024

This evaluation report details the 2022 performance evaluation of the “Humanitarian Response Program” implemented in the Rohingya refugee camps in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh by Ipas. The evaluation assessed facility readiness and capacity of the service providers to provide comprehensive menstrual regulation (MR), post abortion care (PAC), contraceptive services and trauma/survival centered care. This evaluation also documents relevant challenges and barriers faced during program implementation and provides recommendations for the program’s sustainability and future
scale-up.

December 30, 2023

This article describes the pathways to care for women with severe abortion-related near miss events in a fragile context.

November 13, 2023

On November 17, 2023, the United Nation’s New York City headquarters will host a gathering of the Political Network for Values (PNfV), a major organizing nexus for the global far-right. Founded almost a decade ago, the benignly named PNfV has largely flown under the radar. In this time, the group has blossomed into a key networking hub and training ground for far-right activists and political leaders seeking to diminish or extinguish minorities rights and depreciate multilateral human rights systems—including the United Nations itself.