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EuroNGOs . APF 40 Years of Sexual and Reproductive Health: what changed in APF, mentalities, rights, health Lisbon, 11 October 2007 Manuela Sampaio. APF, 40 years following social dynamics and responding to SRHR unmet needs. The Mission.
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EuroNGOs APF 40 Years of Sexual and Reproductive Health: what changed in APF, mentalities, rights, health Lisbon, 11 October 2007 Manuela Sampaio
APF, 40 years following social dynamics and responding to SRHR unmet needs
The Mission • From Family Planning to Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights • School Sexuality Education • From pressure groups to direct and indirect advocacy
The volunteers • From health to education, to psychology, to sociology, to social work and to other help professionals • 1967 – The role of doctors and nurses • 2007 – The role of psychologists, of the social field workers and of the managers
The Volunteers • From benevolent volunteers to technical & volunteers in board • The volunteer crisis • Attracting young volunteers
Target audiences • Women of reproductive age • Couples • Young people • Men • Minorities • Families • People of all ages • People on all continents • The most vulnerable people
Sustainability Official support: • Ministry of Health • Ministry of Education • Ministry of Social Security • State Secretariat for Youth • Ministry of Foreign Affairs
The Change of Mission • The importance of a strategic mentality • From dependence on subsidies to sustainability
The Intervention • From direct action to a strategic perspective and working programme • Training / Reserach • Community Intervention • Advocacy
Great moments • School Sexuality Education, • Youth Centres, • Charter of Sexual and Reprodutive Rights • Abortion Referendum, Feb 2007 • Strategic vision of the Portuguese Co-operation that include SRH and the increase contribution to UNFPA – Toraya Obaid first official visit to Portugal, May 2007 • FGM and Trafficking of People in the Portuguese Law and Gender Programmes
International Support • IPPF / UNFPA / EU / US Foundations • International Projects: IPPF-EN, EuroNGOs, EuroNet – Stop FGM • Private budget • Parternships • Education for Development
APF and EuroNGOs • 1995 – invitation to join the European advocacy project from Sara Seims, Walter Meyer and Steve Sending in Lisboa • 1995 – first meeting in Dublin • 1996 – Hannover –the beginning of EuroNGOs Platform • 1996 –first work project, supported by the Rockefeller Foundation • Joining the advocay towards parliamentarians project
APF and International Advocacy • Highlights: • Amsterdam (EuroNGOs AM) – inclusion of the Portuguese-speaking countries in the project, as recipients of aid from international donors • With IPPF-EN the beginning of the Parliamentary Initiative, in Portugal with MP of all parties • Integrating Portuguese MPs in the IEPFPD • Participation, 3 times, in the EuroNGOs SC.
Continuation • Face to Face Project • APF / UNFPA / GPPSPD (Portuguese All-party Group) Study Tours: S. Tomé, Moçambique, Angola… • EPF Study Tours with Parliamentarians and Young Decision Makers Initiatives with UNFPA, IPPF, Summit Foundation, Catholics For Free Choice…: Ottawa, Strasbourg, India, Porto Rico, Ghana, …
EuroNGOs Annual Meeting, Estoril, 2001(turning point in EuroNGOs dynamic) and all the others • SWOP Launch, since 2001 • 3rd IEPFPD Annual Meeting, Lisbon 2002 • Portuguese All-Party Group on P&D Initiatives • Young Decision Makers - 2005 e 2007 • ROSA Project with IPAD, IPPF-EN and UNFPA support
Perspectives • From the local needs to the guarantee of rights • From the right to acces, to the right to quality services and care for all
New Perspectives -Today we expanded our work • Rendering the SRH concept more understandable to the general public • With marketing and communication professionals, managers volunteers and staff • Advocaters for Sexual and Reproductive Health.
DEVELOP the current dimensions through: • Projects, Active Partnerships, Service Providing • STRENGTEHN community intervention • INNOVATE • DIVERSIFY Without loosing sight of our original mission, the unmet needs, the study of reality and the people we work for
CONTINUING TO BE • A CRITICAL OBSERVER of the official social answers; • PARTNER, always • MILLITANT if need be • DEFENDER of rights • FIGHTER till the rights are acquired
The future • What people expect from us • The expectation of the experts • The hopes of the volunteers • The worldwide needs and rights WILL WE BE ABLE? With our differences, in effective partnerships which turn Causes into Agendas, Action and Rights…YES