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Thanks and Spanks for Family Planning Donors

manks!&SPER Giving SPANKS TO FAMILY PLANNING DONORS A donor's fair share is their reasonable portion of funding needed for family planning based on their economic power. TOTAL DONOR FUNDING NEEDED TO PROVIDE UNIVERSAL ACCESS TO FAMILY PLANNING Funding is falling short because most donors aren't paying their fair share 22% FUNDED 78% SHORTFALL PERCENT OF FAIR SHARE PAID BY EACH COUNTRY IN RECENT YEARS THANKS LUXEMBOURG 99% 67-100% THE NETHERLANDS 92% NORWAY 50% 34-66% SWEDEN 49% BREAK OPEN THE BANKS UNITED KINGDOM 42% SPAIN 35% IRELAND 34% DENMARK 28% 0-33% SPANKS UNITED STATES 22% CANADA 22% NEW ZEALAND 21% FINLAND 18% BELGIUM 17% SPANKS AUSTRALIA 16% FRANCE 14% GERMANY 11% SWITZERLAND 9% SOUTH KOREA 8% JAPAN PORTUGAL 4% AUSTRIA 3% I ITALY 3% O GREECE 2%O The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) estimates that roughly $30 billion per year is needed to achieve universal access to sexual and reproductive health-which includes family planning and reproductive/maternal health-in the developing world. The donor share of funding needed is one-third of the total. Data for this analysis is based on three-year averages of gross domestic product and funding for sexual and reproductive health from 2008-2010, the most recent data available. Donors' fair shares are calculated based on their percent contribution to all donor countries gross domestic product, multiplied by the donor share of funding needed for international sexual and reproductive health. Click here for more details on our methodology. The traditional donor countries noted above play an essential role supplementing domestic funding for reproductive health in low-income countries. But too many aren't pulling their weight. Collectively, these donors will need to dramatically increase funding to meet the London Summit on Family Planning goal of 120 million additional users of family planning by 2020. Population Action POPULATION ACTION INTERNATIONAL 1300 19TH STREET, NW SUITE 200 WASHINGTON, DC 20036-1624 USA POPULATIONACTION.ORG FACEBOOK.COM/POPULATIONACTIONINTERNATIONAL TWITTER.COM/POPACT INTERNATIONAL HEALTHY FAMILIES HEALTHY PLANET

Thanks and Spanks for Family Planning Donors

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We compared each donor’s actual funding for family planning and reproductive health to their fair share of funding. Then we ranked them based on how close they come to meeting their fair share. Rank... ings can be very telling: only two countries—Luxembourg and The Netherlands—even come close to meeting their fair share of funding for family planning and reproductive health. We “Thank” them for leading the way. A small set of countries including Norway, Sweden and the United Kingdom are funding at least one-third of their fair share. This is good, but it is time for these countries to “Break Open the Banks” and meet their fair share. The vast majority of donors, including the United States, are falling far short of their fair share. They get “Spanks” (figuratively speaking, of course). We hope that this healthy competition will give the delegates something to talk about during the high-level dialogues, cocktail receptions and dinner meetings. Who knows, next year the ranking could look very different. Let’s all aim for more “Thanks” and less “Spanks.”

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