Member Associations

Established in Jerusalem in 1964, the Palestinian Family Planning and Protection Association (PFPPA) is locally registered as an independent, non-profit and non-governmental associations with its headquarter office being in Jerusalem. According to PFPPA’s 2016- 2022 Strategic plan, it aims to: Modify policies and decisions to respect Sexual Reproductive Health Rights (SRHR) and gender equity. Provide information for people to make well informed decision and choices regarding their SRHR. Deliver rights based, high quality integrated SRH services.  Enhance the association is high performing, efficient, transparent and accountable. PFPPA has service delivery points, located in the West Bank Areas of Ramallah, Bethlehem, Hebron and Halhoul, in addition to one in the Gaza Strip. Furthermore, and in cooperation with local partners PFPPA is also responsible for 5 safe spaces to provide Gender Based Violence (GBV) related services in the Jerusalem area. PFPPA is known for the provision of comprehensive and diverse services, mainly related to: Sexual and reproductive health services (including that related to GBV), particularly for girls and women. Demand generation and mobile medical team activities reaching the most marginalized groups and areas.  Raising awareness on SRH including comprehensive sexuality education (in and out of schools).  Mobilizing activists and civil society actors to advocate for reforming laws that advance SRH and influence national policy. Conducting applied national studies related to unmet SRH needs.  Training for young leaders, staff, service providers and community leaders from local governmental and non-governmental organizations.  In the past two years alone, PFPPA has been able to reach nearly 190,000 clients with over 850,000 services, over 80% being poor and vulnerable and over 85% being female also noting the vast majority being served within a humanitarian context.

Founded in 1976, the Dominica Planned Parenthood Association (DPPA) focused on providing information and education to support the government’s clinical service delivery programme in its early years. It began delivering contraceptive services in response to the significant contraceptive needs of Dominicans (particularly among adolescents), and the staffing constraints of the government programme. As a result, people could be sure of at least one inexpensive, private outlet where their family planning needs could be fully met. DPPA’s clinic is located the centre of the capital city and provides a range of services including family planning, pregnancy tests, family counselling and PAP smear screening. There’s an established community outreach programme which provides family planning through volunteers and shop owners, and an extensive programme of information and education activities. These include distributing pamphlets and posters, broadcasting short talks about family planning on radio and television and conducting community discussions. The negative effects of Dominca’s high adolescent pregnancy rate are aggravated by local practices that force pregnant girls to drop out of school permanently. To reach young people, DPPA provides sexuality and life skills education in secondary schools and to adolescents outside the school system through rap sessions, lectures, discussions and films. DPPA has also established an Under 20 Club, a teen group that trains its members as peer educators. BFLA is an associate of an umbrella organization known as the Caribbean Family Planning Affiliation Ltd (CFPA). The Caribbean Family Planning Affiliation (CFPA) is the only regional non-governmental organization (NGO) devoted to family planning and sexual and reproductive health in the Caribbean. CFPA serves 13 island Member Associations and 5 Associate Member Associations in the Caribbean, Central and South America. It supports these Associations with technical assistance and materials, and represents their collective interests at IPPF meetings and in the Caribbean region among governments and NGOs. CFPA Member Associations are located in Anguilla, Antigua, Aruba, Bahamas, Bermuda, Curacao, Dominica, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Martinique, Nevis and St. Kitts, St. Lucia and St. Vincent. CFPA Associate Member Associations are located in Belize, Barbados, Guyana, Jamaica, Suriname, and Trinidad and Tobago. The CFPA does not offer any clinical services or distribute family planning methods to clients, but rather focuses its work on governance and institution-building among its Member Associations. The CFPA oversees, manages and analyses core grants to 7 Caribbean Member Associations. The CFPA also submits project proposals for donor funding on behalf of the Associations.