Program areas at PAI
Supporting International srhr advocacyin 2022, Pai worked with local organizations in the global south, providing 77 partners in 31 countries with $7.4 million in grants, advocacy support and strategic guidance to advance sexual and reproductive health and rights (srhr) in their own countries. Pai's International programs focus on ensuring global, national and subnational policies and budgets that ensure equitable access to high-quality, rights-based sexual and reproductive health information and services, including adolescent health, menstrual health, comprehensive sexuality education, contraception, maternal and newborn health and safe abortion and post-abortion care.our programs also track progress and ensure accountability for delivering on these policy and budgetary commitments, and ensure investments in sexual and reproductive health and rights are leveraged to build sustainable and equitable systems that ensure rights and access for all, leaving no one behind.primary health care initiative: supports civil society advocates at the global and country levels working to improve primary health care systems.uhc engage: supports local civil society organizations with the tools they need to advocate for the prioritization of sexual and reproductive health and rights in country-level universal health coverage policy reforms.fp2030 accountability project: promotes mutual ownership and partnership among civil society and governments to realize family planning 2030 commitments in service of expanding access to contraceptives.reproductive health advocacy partnership: supports civil society organizations in malawi and zambia to influence funding and policy decisions on sexual and reproductive health and rights.government accountability for family planning budgets: supports civil society advocates in sub-saharan africa to hold their governments accountable for increasing domestic investments in family planning and improving the transparency of budget data.copasah: supports the community of practitioners on accountability and social Action in health (copasah), through technical and financial assistance, to shape, strengthen and sustain a community of practitioners and allies committed to community-centered social accountability processes.acceso: supports civil society in latin america and the caribbean to close the gaps in access to sexual and reproductive health services.ngo host at the world banks' global financing facility (gff): Pai was selected as the ngo host for a 2- year initiative to resource and support meaninful civil society engagement with the gff, in order to ensure sustainable financing for sexual, reproductive, maternal, newborn, child and adolescent health and nutrition (srmncah-n). This includes 1. Coordination of a global network of civil society groups engaging with the gff (civil society coordinating group, or cscg); 2. Provision of 2.75 million usd in grant support to 51 cso/ylo partners in 28 gff focus countries, selected through a competitive and transparent process; and 3. Responsive, ongoing strategic and technical support to ensure effective civil-society/youth- led advocacy and accountability.pai employs a range of strategic communications activities to showcase our work, our partners and the collective impact we make to advance sexual and reproductive health and rights around the world. Pai's website (www.pai.org) has become the main communications hub for showcasing our work and that of our partners. Pai has a growing presence on social media (facebook: paiwdc; twitter: @pai_org; instagram: pai_insta; linkedin: Pai).
Championing u.s. government support of srhru.s. Government relations is one of Pai's core bodies of work advocating for robust foreign assistance policies and increased funding to support sexual and reproductive health and rights worldwide.pai is dedicated to advancing evidence-based u.s. government policies and funding in support of sexual and reproductive health and rights. Through our u.s. government relations work, we cultivate a broad, knowledgeable and engaged base of sexual and reproductive health and rights champions in congress. Together with these champions, Pai advocates to increase u.s. family planning funding. To ensure u.s. Global health assistance reaches the most qualified, trusted and effective providers, Pai fights against harmful policies like the global gag rule and decisions to defund the united nations Population fund (unfpa).
Incubating new partnershipsin 2022, Pai continued to support the secretariat for the primary health care performance initiative (phcpi). Phcpi brings together country policymakers, health system managers, practitioners, advocates, other development partners and community to catalyze and accelerate primary health care improvement in low- and middle-income countries through better measurements, knowledge management, advocacy and country engagement in order to achieve quality universal health coverage more quickly, efficiently and equitably.