William and Flora Hewlett Foundation

2019

The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation’s commitment in 2012 to FP2020 in support of Every Woman Every Child has been rolled over to help advance the Updated Global Strategy for Women’s, Children’s and Adolescents’ Health (2016-2030). More information about this commitment can be found here.

2015

Commitment Progress

POLICY & POLITICAL UPDATES

• Engagement in Francophone West Africa and the Ouagadougou Partnership: Since the Hewlett Foundation made the commitment in 2012 to intensify engagement in the Ouagadougou Partnership and its focus on reaching an additional 1 million women in Francophone West Africa with family planning services by 2015, the foundation has increased its investments in the sub-region. In 2013, the Foundation finalized a refreshed strategy for the Global Development and Population Program’s international family planning and reproductive health portfolio. In that refreshed strategy, the foundation included an explicit focus on Francophone West Africa, with a goal to increase funding for the sub-region. Hewlett provided approximately $3 million in 2015 and $5 million in 2016 in grants to support activities in Francophone West Africa aligned with the goals of the Ouagadougou Partnership and priorities in the country costed implementation plans.
• In 2016, the Foundation is renewing support (along with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation) for the Ouagadougou Partnership Coordination Unit; renewing support to IntraHealth International for family planning advocacy coalitions in Benin, Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger, and Senegal; providing flexible resources to Pathfinder International to start operations in Cote d’Ivoire; and providing an early investment in Ipas’s new regional strategy for increasing contraceptive use and decreasing the incidence of unsafe abortion in Francophone West Africa.

FINANCIAL UPDATES

• The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation is committed to maintaining current funding levels of approximately $22 million annually to international family planning and reproductive health until 2020, of which $13 million will support a combination of direct service provision and advocacy specifically related to family planning.
• In 2015, roughly $13 million was dedicated to support family planning service provision and advocacy, and approximately $18 million will be dedicated for the same in 2016.
• The Foundation’s support for family planning activities is expected to fluctuate year to year, but will be maintained at $13 million per year or above through 2020.

PROGRAM & SERVICE DELIVERY UPDATES

• Highlights of grants made in 2015 in Francophone West Africa include supporting EngenderHealth to demonstrate an approach for respecting women’s rights in family planning service delivery; renewing support to Camber Collective (formerly Hope Consulting) to use results from the 2013 market segmentation analysis to create counseling tools tailored to women’s beliefs about and preferences for family planning methods; funding World Faiths Development Dialogue to engage high-level faith leaders in Senegal in dialogue with the government about how to support implementation of that country’s costed implementation plan; and providing Population Services International with flexible funding for their new program in Niger.
• In November 2015, the Hewlett Foundation launched a formative evaluation of its strategy for family planning and reproductive health in Francophone West Africa. The evaluation is assessing the Foundation’s strategy to serve as a catalyst in the region for increasing family planning and reproductive health services, both through grantmaking and active participation as a core donor of the Ouagadougou Partnership. We plan to share the findings with the members and partners of the Partnership when evaluation results are ready in early 2017.

2012—London Family Planning Summit

The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation commits to continue providing financial support to international family planning and reproductive health indefinitely. For the next eight years, the Hewlett Foundation expects to maintain at least the current level of committing US $22 million annually to international family planning and reproductive health, including extending approximately US $13 million in grants for a combination of direct service provision and advocacy specifically related to family planning. In the near term, the Hewlett Foundation will support an effort to develop and cost out options for an external accountability mechanism around the financial and political commitments made at the London Summit on Family Planning. The Hewlett Foundation also expects to receive funding for a project to visualize data that can better understand the concept of “unmet need” for family planning, and will intensify engagement in the Ouagadougou Partnership and its focus on accelerating access to family planning services in Francophone West Africa with the Gates Foundation, USAID and the French Government.