ICFP 2025

Awards

ICFP celebrates outstanding contributions to the field of sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) through a diverse array of awards. These honors recognize impactful work across research, advocacy, service delivery, youth leadership, innovation, and more—reflecting the breadth and vibrancy of our global community.

Thank you to everyone who made these awards possible—including all nominees and judges!

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The ICFP 2025

Youth Trailblazer Award

Get to know this year’s cohort of amazing leaders, aged 18-35, who are advancing various areas of SRHR around the world. Once awarded, the ICFP Youth Trailblazers each also played an integral part in the planning and implementation of ICFP 2025.

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Phil Harvey SRHR Innovation Award

The Phil Harvey SRHR Innovation Award celebrates emerging leaders who are advancing access to sexual and reproductive health through bold, sex-positive, and rights-based approaches—especially those that harness the private sector to expand access to information, products, and services that support healthy, fulfilling sexual lives.

This award honors the legacy of Phil Harvey, the founder and former chairman of DKT International, who passed away in 2021. Phil was a fearless champion of civil liberties, especially freedom of speech. He was a pioneer in large-scale social marketing programs for family planning and HIV/AIDS prevention across 57 countries in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. His groundbreaking efforts in the family planning sector have changed millions of lives and left an indelible mark on the field.

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In recognition of his dedication, the Phil Harvey SRHR Innovation Award offers the following:

  • Monetary award of up to $10,000 USD: Winners are expected to complete their proposed SRHR innovation projects within a two-year period and submit mid-project and final reports.
  • Funding for winners to attend ICFP 2025 in Bogota, Colombia, where they will accept their award 

Eligibility & Selection Criteria

  • Age: Between 18 and 35 years old (as of 1 November 2025)
  • Project: The project applicants include in their application must be inclusive of individuals that are traditionally not represented or included in SRHR interventions.
  • Residence: Applicants must reside and work in low- or middle-income countries.
  • Exclusions: Current employees/staff of DKT and its affiliated organizations are not eligible to apply.
  • If a winner changes their organization after receiving the award, they may continue the project with a new organization or complete it as an individual with appropriate institutional affiliation.

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Early Career Researcher Award

For many talented researchers, advocates, and practitioners—especially those from low- and middle-income countries—the barriers to participating in a large-scale conference are significant. The ICFP Early Career Researcher Award removes many of those barriers by providing full travel support to attend ICFP 2025 in person, present their work on a global stage, and engage directly with the professional SRHR community.

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Excellence in Leadership and Innovation Award

The Excellence in Leadership and Innovation Award recognizes individuals, teams, organizations, and governments advancing SRHR through bold leadership and innovative action.

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This award uplifts outstanding progress that exemplifies equity through action, in alignment with the ICFP 2025 conference theme: “Equity Through Action: Advancing SRHR for All.”

Eligibility & Selection Criteria

  • Nominees must demonstrate exceptional leadership and innovation in advancing equitable access to SRHR. Eligible recipients include:
    • Countries
    • Organizations (Non-state actors—e.g., NGOs, research institutions, advocacy networks, clinics)
    • Individuals or small teams (2–3 members)

 

Award Level Rationale Eligibility Selection Criteria
Country-level Award This category recognizes national governments that have achieved transformative progress in expanding SRHR through inclusive policies, innovation, and strong accountability. Up to two awards may be given if nominees are equally meritorious or represent diverse contexts.

Criteria

  • Demonstrated, sustained improvements in SRHR policy or programmatic outcomes
  • Strong commitment to equity, inclusion, and rights-based approaches
  • Implementation of innovative strategies or reforms that have increased access to quality SRHR services
  • Leadership that catalyzes multi-sectoral collaboration and long-term change

Indicators

  • Policy reforms or legislative achievements advancing SRHR access or protections
  • Demonstrated improvements in access, availability, or quality of SRHR services
  • Evidence of equity-driven approaches, such as expanding services in hard-to-reach areas or for marginalized populations
  • Use of innovative models (e.g., community-based services, digital health, task-sharing)
  • Documented outcomes or positive shifts in national data, reports, or evaluations
Organization-level Award This category honors non-state actors or institutions whose leadership, service, and innovation have significantly advanced SRHR at national or subnational levels.

Non-state actors or national-level organizations working in SRHR and family planning service delivery, advocacy, research, or demand generation.

Up to two awards may be given if nominees are equally meritorious or represent diverse contexts.

Criteria

  • Breakthrough innovations in one or more of the following: (1) SRHR service provision, (2) advocacy and policy influence, (3) research and evidence generation, (4) demand generation and behavior change
  • Demonstrated commitment to equity and inclusion
  • Measurable improvements in SRHR access, awareness, or quality

Indicators

  • A clearly defined innovation that has improved access or rights in SRHR
  • Demonstrated or potential impact and scalability
  • The organization’s contributions were essential to achieving these outcomes
  • Recognition by peers, partners, or communities for advancing equity and change
Individual / Team-level Award This category honors individuals or small teams (2–3 members) whose bold efforts, leadership, and innovation have shaped SRHR outcomes and inspired others. Up to two awards may be presented in this category.

Criteria

  • Recipient’s work includes significant contributions to SRHR through one or more of the following: (1) service delivery, (2) policy/advocacy, (3) research, (4) demand generation
  • Inspirational impact as a role model, mentor, or community voice
  • Recipient activities align with ICFP 2025’s commitment to equity

Indicators

  • A compelling breakthrough or innovation in SRHR practice or policy
  • Demonstrated reach, influence, or transformative potential
  • The nominee’s efforts were central to the success or scale of the work
  • Alignment with equity, human rights, and community-centered change

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Lifetime Achievement Award

ICFP’s Lifetime Achievement Award recognizes an individual whose career-long leadership and contributions have made a lasting impact on sexual and reproductive health and rights and the global family planning movement.

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Luminary Award

The ICFP 2025 Luminary Award honors a bold, transformative leader whose work has advanced SRHR with integrity, innovation, and a deep commitment to equity. This individual honor recognizes lasting impact—locally or globally—through policy, service delivery, research, advocacy, or grassroots action. Luminaries may be at any stage in their career and are celebrated not only for what they’ve achieved, but how they’ve achieved it.

Aligned with the ICFP 2025 conference theme, “Equity Through Action: Advancing SRHR for All,” this award shines a light on those guiding the way forward for the global SRHR community.

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Selection Criteria

  • Nominees may be at any stage of their career but must have demonstrable impact in the SRHR field.
  • This award is open to individuals working in any sector, civil society, government, academia, health systems, media, philanthropy, or community leadership.
  • Nominees must have a recognized track record of work centered in equity, rights-based practice, and community empowerment.
  • Individuals may be nominated by peers, organizations, or institutions. Self-nominations are not permitted.

1. Transformative Impact

  • Clear evidence of systemic or field-wide impact in advancing SRHR i.e policy shifts, programmatic scale-up, debunking of  myths, and/or cultural norms/stigma
  • Work that has significantly improved access to or quality of SRHR for historically underserved populations

2. Equity in Action

  • A demonstrated commitment to equity in practice – whether through inclusive program design, working in partnership with marginalized communities, or dismantling systemic barriers
  • Leadership that centers reproductive justice, rights-based approaches, and intersectionality (e.g., gender, disability, youth, race/ethnicity)

3. Inspirational Leadership

  • Serves as a role model and mentor to others in the field
  • Leadership style reflects humility, collaboration, and a commitment to ethical and community-grounded practice

4. Innovation & Legacy

  • Pioneered or sustained bold, original ideas that have reshaped how SRHR is approached locally or globally
  • Created a body of work or influence that is sustainable, replicable, or deeply catalytic

Awardees

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Global Humanitarian Award

ICFP’s Global Humanitarian Award recognizes visionary leaders whose sustained commitment and impactful work have advanced SRHR around the world.

This award honors individuals whose humanitarian leadership, innovation, and long-term engagement have significantly expanded access to essential services, strengthened community-centered approaches, and driven meaningful progress toward equity and well-being for women, children, and families globally.

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