Everyone should be able to decide freely whether and when to have children, and to access the information, healthcare and voluntary family planning services they choose.

To help tackle this issue, we’ve joined forces with selected grassroots NGOs to create Empower to Plan crowdfunding. It’s your chance to get behind effective family planning providers, back their projects and increase their impact.

Help us support people’s ability to make informed choices about their reproductive health and to access the services they choose. Reproductive rights and bodily autonomy matter in their own right.

Our partners are carefully selected grassroots NGOs. Each is taking practical action, aligned with our mission and values, and with a proven track record of impact.

“The way forward is the full realisation of reproductive rights, for every individual and couple, no matter where or how they live, or how much they earn. This includes dismantling all the barriers— whether economic, social or institutional — that inhibit free and informed choice.”

Former UNFPA Executive Director Dr. Natalia Kanem

HOW IT WORKS

Find out about the projects that Empower to Plan is currently supporting below

• Donate (from as little as £10)
• 100% of your money goes towards Empower to Plan projects*
• Stay tuned for project updates
• Keep checking back here for new projects and the success stories you’ve helped make possible

SUPPORTING REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS

• Help meet the unmet need for family planning around the world
• Our partners deliver entirely voluntary family planning, grounded in human rights
• Call on decision-makers to protect reproductive rights and ensure everyone can access voluntary family planning services.

As well as meeting unmet need for family planning, Empower to Plan projects often benefit people and planet in other ways – helping to tackle cultural barriers to women’s reproductive rights, provide education for girls or protecting fragile ecosystems and wildlife.

WHY REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS?

More than 200 million women lack the contraception, knowledge and support they need to take control of their fertility.

Many women face cultural barriers – such as patriarchal attitudes or traditions of early marriage – preventing them from choosing the number and spacing of their children.

Unplanned and unwanted pregnancies can limit their life choices and keep their families trapped in a cycle of poverty, as they struggle to provide for more children than they can afford.

Access to voluntary family planning enables people to decide whether and when to have children. That freedom must be supported as a matter of rights and health; it must never be pursued to lower birth rates.

Population Matters is primarily a campaigning and awareness-raising charity, but alongside this essential work we’re keen to support likeminded organisations that are busy putting our recommendations into action.

*100% of your donation will be used to help fund empowerment projects, with all administration/running costs being borne by Population Matters. Whilst Population Matters will take into account any preference indicated in the making of your donation as to which project you’d like to support, Population Matters has the discretion to use some or all of your donation for other empowerment projects.