The Reproductive Health Supplies Coalition serves as a valued forum, where high-level stakeholder partners are engaged in the issue of reproductive health (RH) supplies shortages. The Coalition's vision is to protect people’s health and improve livelihoods by ensuring sustained access to a choice of high-quality RH supplies. To support that vision, the Reproductive Health Supplies Coalition's mission is to ensure that every person is able to obtain and use RH supplies.
As guiding principles the Coalition commits itself to achieving a sustained supply of affordable, high-quality reproductive health supplies in low- and middle-income countries.
To this end, the Coalition:
Understands that achieving its vision requires:
- public and private resources to optimally serve people’s needs for RH supplies, especially the needs of the poorest; and
- utilizing a multi-stakeholder approach to improve RH behaviors. Coalition's membership includes multilateral organizations, bilateral and private foundation donors, low- and moderate-income country governments, civil society, intergovernmental organizations and NGOs, and the private sector.
Acknowledges that to be effective the Reproductive Health Supplies Coalition must complement the actions of its individual members; it will therefore
- concentrate on areas where no one partner can work effectively alone to leverage their different comparative strengths;
- commit to strengthening harmonization and coordination of partner activities;
- implement a cooperative, problem-solving approach for developing solutions;
- work by consensus toward common goals.
Believes that increased country ownership is fundamental for reproductive health supplies; therefore, it will work through national governments to develop supportive policies, plans, resource commitments, and capacities.
Recognizes the role of both industrialized and developing-country manufacturers for planning, providing, and delivering high-quality RH supplies.
