Member Groups
RHSC Member Groups: Engines of Collective Impact
RHSC Member Groups bring together multisectoral experts to drive a shared agenda and accelerate access to reproductive health supplies through partnership and collaboration, improved data visibility, advocacy, systems strengthening, and market development.
How do Member Groups work?
All RHSC Member Groups create space for regular convening, operate listservs to share knowledge, and develop a shared roadmap for collective action and advocacy.
Who Can Participate in Groups?
Most RHSC Member Groups are open to anyone working on reproductive health supplies access, including individuals without affiliation. Some groups restrict membership to specific stakeholders, such as manufacturers, or due to regulations on sharing sensitive data or intellectual property.
Working Groups
Working Groups are the RHSC-driven foundation of Member Groups, enabling issue identification, prioritization, and targeted action. Working Groups create space for in-depth collaboration on critical barriers to SRH supply security.
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Each year, nearly half of all pregnancies in LMICs are unintended. RHSC expands access to contraceptive supplies, not only saving lives and enabling choice, but also resulting in significant cost savings.
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Globally, about 712 women die daily from pregnancy or childbirth complications. RHSC advances access to lifesaving maternal health products to make pregnancy and childbirth safer.
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Across LMICs, 688 million people who menstruate lack access to menstrual products, impacting their health, confidence, education opportunities, economic participation, and dignity. RHSC accelerates access to menstrual products and transforms systems to deliver them.
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Through partnerships, we improve access to safe abortion supplies by sharing better data, aligning advocacy, and addressing supply chain barriers. Current priorities include adapting to policy changes, improving product quality, and securing funding and procurement in LMICs.
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We provide a private, ethical space for manufacturers to share information and work together. Our platform gives them a collective voice to address key issues and helps them navigate barriers in LMIC markets.
Advisory Groups
Advisory Groups are member-driven, enabling technical support on cross-cutting issues, bringing Working Groups together. They are flexible, emerging as needed and dissolving once the need is resolved. Applications for new Advisory Groups will open in November 2026.
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We convene partners in Latin America and the Caribbean to improve procurement efficiency, reduce prices, and advance equitable access to reproductive health supplies for marginalized populations.
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We provide a space for members to share information, exchange best practices, and align advocacy to address funding cuts, policy shifts, and next steps in a changing policy and funding environment.
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The VAN Consensus Planning Group (VAN CPG) brings together partners to share data and take action to plan shipments and allocate resources to promote family planning product availability.
Legacy Groups
RHSC released a new Member Group structure in June 2026. Following the launch of this new structure, several RHSC groups will sunset at the end of 2026. These groups—our Legacy Groups—are not currently accepting new members. The guidance below will help you navigate which groups to join in our new structure. Members can also join new groups through our Member Group application form.
The A&AWG worked to create an enabling environment for reproductive health supplies through advocacy on policy, financing, and programs. Under RHSC’s new structure, advocacy will be embedded across the Working Groups, allowing for more focused and issue-specific efforts. The Policy & Financing Advisory Group will continue to bring a policy and financing perspective while supporting advocacy objectives. Members are encouraged to engage in the Working Groups and/or Policy & Financing Advisory Group most relevant to their work.
SSWG focused on improving supplies security by strengthening the systems needed to ensure reliable and predictable SRH supplies access through better alignment, data, and coordination. In our new structure, systems strengthening remains a core issue, integrated into the Working Groups, enabling an in-depth, health-area-specific focus. Members can join the Working Groups most relevant to their work on systems strengthening and supply chain management.
MDAWG focused on improving SRH supply security through a greater focus on the “total market” and facilitating overall market growth, inclusive of the private sector. Market development approaches remain a critical lever within RHSC’s new structure, with each Working Group taking on a market development lens specific to the relevant health area (or stakeholder perspective, in the case of the Manufacturers Group). Members are encouraged to join the Working Groups relevant to their market development work and interests.
The NURHT Caucus helped increase the choice of reproductive health technologies through information-sharing and accelerating the adoption of new and underused SRH supplies and technologies. Product innovation, introduction, and scale-up remains central to RHSC’s Member Groups. Working Group members will focus on research and development, product introduction, and product scale-up barriers. Members can join the Working Group that best aligns with their interest and expertise.
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Frequently Asked Questions
For most of our Member Groups, membership is open to any individual—regardless of organizational affiliation—working on issues related to reproductive health supply security. Some of our Member Groups have membership criteria—for example, the Manufacturers Group is open only to product manufacturers—to facilitate a safe, trusted space for members to address sensitive issues.
RHSC membership is what you make of it. There are no required time commitments from members (with the exception of those who hold leadership positions). We invite all of our members to participate and contribute in the way that works best for them. Each Member Group jointly determines its meeting and webinar cadence based on the needs of members within that individual group. More active participation in the group activities and listservs typically results in greater membership benefits.
Yes. Members can join as many groups as they like. Our Working Groups are structured to focus in more depth on a specific SRH supply area (like contraceptives or maternal health) or stakeholder group (manufacturers), while our Advisory Groups are cross-cutting, working across the four health areas—contraception, maternal health, safe abortion, and menstrual health. Join any of the open groups that meet your needs or where you feel best positioned to contribute.
Across the Member Group structure, RHSC provides a Secretariat staff team to support with both operational oversight and technical assistance. We offer live meetings as well as offline engagement and partnership. On occasion, RHSC offers small grants through the Member Groups to address a specific supply-related barrier or challenge.
In 2026, we launched a new Member Group structure to better respond to the needs of RHSC members. Built on extensive consultations with our membership, it enables more in-depth collaboration across each health area, while also maintaining agility and flexibility to respond to emerging needs, particularly as our members navigate a new normal in the global health landscape.
The new Member Group structure was built on a wide range of member feedback and consultations. This included member-wide surveys, consultations during our 10-year Strategy process, a dedicated task force within RHSC’s Secretariat, input from the Chairs and Co-Chairs from our former structure, and external guidance from a change management consultant.
While our Member Group structure is different, all the issue areas we collaborated on before remain. Please explore the new groups and determine where your interests are best aligned. While dedicated groups on advocacy and accountability, systems strengthening, market development, and product introduction have transitioned, these thematic areas will be explored by health area within the Working Groups.
At the heart of our new structure is collective action and a belief that no single organization can solve supply-related issues on its own. The new Member Group structure continues to prioritize collaboration and partnership. We still have dedicated space for each of RHSC’s four health areas—contraception, maternal health, safe abortion, and menstrual health—as well as space for cross-cutting collaboration.
Mostly. Most RHSC Member Groups have Co-Chairs who are elected by the individual group. One change in our new structure is that everyone gets a vote in group elections, and some groups may opt to have more than two Co-Chairs. Each group’s terms of reference outline governance in more detail.
Most advocacy-related conversations and collaboration will happen through RHSC’s Working Groups, enabling more in-depth advocacy efforts unique to each of the health areas and manufacturer-related issues. The Policy & Financing Advisory Group recognizes the rapidly evolving landscape for global health and a need to ensure that members have access to a cross-cutting space to address concerns related to policy- and financing-related changes.
RHSC has a number of emerging climate-related scopes of work. These conversations will continue within the Working Groups or Advisory Groups, as relevant. Members are encouraged to continue to elevate climate-related challenges and opportunities within these groups.
It depends. For the groups that remain more or less the same (e.g., the Menstrual Health Supplies Workstream to the Menstrual Health Supplies Working Group), members will be transferred. All members from NURHT, A&AWG, MDAWG, and SSWG have also been added to the new Contraceptive Supplies Working Group. You can easily opt out by clicking “Unsubscribe” on member emails or contacting us at [email protected].
All prior resources, outputs, webinars, and other work that happened in previous implementing mechanisms has been maintained. These resources have found new homes within the most relevant Member Group pages and within RHSC’s Resources & Publications Database. If there’s anything you are looking for and can’t find, please email us at [email protected].
When RHSC first started, each of the working groups—Advocacy and Accountability, Systems Strengthening, and Market Development Approaches—focused on contraceptive supplies access through different lenses. As RHSC grew, these groups took on other health areas, and contraceptive supplies became the only area without a dedicated group for conversations on health-area-specific needs.
We will launch Advisory Group applications in November 2026. Members will need to demonstrate member interest, proposed leadership, and evidence that the issue would be cross-cutting (across Working Groups). When we launch applications, we will be updating this page with specific criteria, guidance on applying, and a formal application process. Stay tuned for more.
“Implementing mechanism” is the legacy term from our former Member Group structure. We updated the group names to better reflect what they do and to respond to member feedback that “implementing mechanism” was confusing. Where you see “implementing mechanism” or “IM,” this refers to a former group within our structure.
Benefits of Joining Groups
Member Groups offer unparalleled opportunities to shape global reproductive health supplies strategies, access cutting-edge intelligence, build strategic partnerships, and drive measurable change in your areas of expertise.
The Power of the Collective
Collaborate with leading organizations, technical specialists, and decision-makers across sectors and geographies. Together, we can achieve what no single organization can do alone.
Tap Into the Brain Trust
RHSC brings together some of the best and brightest in the reproductive health sector. If you are facing a challenge or want additional thinking in how you might overcome an implementation barrier, tap into the brain trust.
Increased Visibility
RHSC creates opportunities for members to disseminate their work to a diverse network of partners working on reproductive health supplies access, resulting in wider reach and increased visibility.
