Shortages of critical reproductive health supplies (RH Supplies) around the world are undermining progress towards achieving the Program of Action established at the International Conference on Population and Development in Cairo (in 1994) and the poverty reduction targets included in the Millennium Development Goals.  The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) has estimated that the funding gap could grow to US$ 737 million by 2015.  Without supplies, no health or poverty reduction program can be successful. From 1996 to 1999, bilateral and multilateral donor funding for RH supplies decreased from $172 million to $131 million, which led to haphazard shipments of supplies and distribution.

Project Resource Mobilisation and Awareness (RMA) is a joint effort of Population Action International (PAI), the International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF) and the German Foundation for World Population (DSW) to increase political and financial support for reproductive health supplies at the global, regional, and national levels. The Project works through a targeted set of advocacy and awareness-raising actions including the provision of financial and technical support to advocacy efforts of non governmental organizations (NGOs) and NGO networks.

 The Goals

Project RMA seeks to

• Increase tangible financial and political support to sustainable reproductive health supplies.
• Coordinate and support advocacy strategies at the national , regional and global levels.

 
The Approach

Project RMA takes a three-tiered approach to effectively promote advocacy efforts and policy recommendations. Advocacy is engaged and enforced at the global, regional and country levels and are coordinated by the different partner organizations.

• Global Level

• Regional Level

• Country Level 

Getting involved in RH Supplies

• To sign up for Supply News contact Caroline Jane Kent at DSW.

• Become a member of the Reproductive Health Supplies Coalition 

• Push for greater accountability and transparency by governments regarding financial allocations for SRH and supplies by using the RHInterchange to hold governments, donors and policymakers accountable

• Use the RH Supplies Advocacy Toolkit to become effective and strong advocates for RH supplies