House Approves Crucial Improvements to Family Planning Policy; Senate is Up Next!

The last month on the Hill has been extremely exciting for PAI as we advocated for the three successful votes in the House of Representatives during debate of the fiscal year 2008 foreign assistance bill (H.R. 2764) – each yielding significant breakthroughs for the international family planning and reproductive health communities. This is just the beginning as these issues will be debated on the Senate floor next month. We encourage our readers to urge their Senators to approve these important, life-saving improvements to international reproductive health policy.

Read PAI’s breakdown of the June 21st House vote
ViewPoint: Victory (is) in the House!

PAI Links Age Structure and the Failed States Index

 Each year, Foreign Policy Magazine’s Failed States Index uses twelve political, economic, military and social indicators of instability to rank the states most likely to “fail.”  This year, PAI used data from its seminal publication The Shape of Things to Come: Why Age Structure Matters to a Safer, More Equitable World to add a new dimension to the Failed States Index: age structure. With this information, policy makers have yet another reason to promote sound reproductive health programs and educational and economic opportunities for women and girls.

Read the full article
Foreign Policy Magazine: The Failed States Index
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PAI Partners with Global NGO Networks to Address Reproductive Health Supply Shortages

Shortages of critical reproductive health supplies around the world are undermining progress towards achieving international development goals. Without supplies, no health or poverty reduction program can be successful. To address this situation, PAI issued a Request for Proposals (RFP) in August 2006, seeking to work with global NGO networks who were interested in increasing their involvement in the RH supplies issue. As a result of this RFP, PAI is working with five partners to advance a common advocacy agenda for reproductive health supplies.

Read more about PAI's partners in reproductive health supplies

New Research Commentary: PAI Highlights Opportunities in Country Ownership

Country stakeholders—governments, parliamentarians and civil society—have always been challenged by a limited ability to influence decisions made at the international level. With international donors now seeking to move decision-making and ownership to the country level, we have a remarkable opportunity to establish a transparent, participatory and inclusive process. PAI's latest Research Commentary, Making Country Ownership a Reality: An NGO Perspective, outlines some of the key areas that could be the focus of new discussions and research.

Read the Research Commentary: Making Country Ownership a Reality: An NGO Perspective

Abstaining from Reality Available on YouTube! 

If you’ve somehow missed PAI’s landmark documentary, Abstaining from Reality: U.S. Restrictions on HIV Prevention, you can still catch it on YouTube anytime! Watch the documentary and forward the link on to ten friends. Together we can raise awareness about the ideological restrictions in U.S. HIV prevention programs that put millions of lives at risk.

Watch Abstaining from Reality on YouTube
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Support the effort to overturn these destructive policies by making a donation online

View a new short documentary film by Abstaining from Reality director Daniele Anastasion using additional footage shot while in Uganda for PAI.

PAI Launches New Online Giving Features!

With the launch of PAI’s new website, we are pleased to offer you the ability to Donate Online through our secure online payment system. You can now make a donation directly through the PAI website with options such as making a gift in someone’s memory or scheduling an automatic monthly donation. The new site also provides information on different planned giving options, as well as links to our annual report and new publications.

We invite you to take a look around and try out the new features!
www.populationaction.org/donate

If you have any questions or would like more information, feel free to contact our Development department at 202-557-3400.

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