PAI Awarded $2.8 Million to Support Cross-Sector Action and Sustainable Family Planning Financing

PAI today announced that it has been awarded a $2,800,000 grant by the Gates Foundation to support the “Accelerating Policy Action to Make Family Planning Possible” project. This award will ensure that family planning remains a global health priority, sustain advocacy momentum, and address systemic challenges that limit access to family planning services.

Under the grant, PAI will build on its 60 years of experience engaging in critical advocacy, investing in global partnerships, and funding changemakers to advance universal access to sexual and reproductive health and rights.

“PAI deeply appreciates the Gates Foundation’s commitment to family planning and support for the work of civil society partners as we focus on the systems that keep family planning accessible—domestic budgets, supply chains, and policies that ensure family planning is consistently available where women seek it,” said Nabeeha Kazi Hutchins, President and CEO of PAI. “Women with an intention to use modern contraception need reliable access to quality methods and accurate information, without the misinformation or service gaps that too often interrupt their choices.”

The foundation’s long-standing commitment to helping women and girls in low- and middle-income countries make informed family planning decisions and access the contraception they need continues to guide the global reproductive health community. Over the past two decades, their investments have reduced maternal mortality, advanced gender equity, supported economic growth, and accelerated progress toward the Sustainable Development Goals.

With this support, PAI will leverage new and underused pathways to equip civil society organizations with the resources, data, coordination, and access needed to respond to funding shifts, elevate emerging opportunities, and influence policy at all levels—ultimately securing sustainable financing for contraceptive supplies.

“This partnership with the Gates Foundation leverages PAI’s global network of more than 1,000 civil society organizations and coalitions, and six decades of family planning advocacy and convening experience to broaden who is at the table,” said Mustafa Kudrati, PAI’s Senior Vice President of Strategy and Growth. “By engaging our existing networks and new sectors—finance, education, agriculture, nutrition, and beyond—we expand the tent and align ambitions. When more stakeholders see themselves in this work, our collective voice grows, and so does our ability to ensure that women who intend to use modern contraception can count on systems that truly work for them.”

About PAI:

For 60 years, PAI has championed policies that enable women and youth to exercise their sexual and reproductive health and rights and eliminate barriers to the life-saving supplies and services they need. We achieve change by strengthening civil society partners’ advocacy capacity and advancing policy, legal, and funding solutions that make sexual and reproductive health care accessible, sustainable, and undeniable.