ICFP Faith Subcommittee
ICFP subcommittee and community dedicated to engaging faith actors committed to interfaith action and collaboration with the global health and family planning community
Community FAQ
What Do You Do?
In light of the powerful influence of faith, faith leaders and the far reach of faith-based health providers, the faith community must be involved in family planning to achieve universal access.
Over 90 percent of people in countries with an unmet need for family planning consider religion a very important part of who they are. Therefore, it’s absolutely necessary that these communities are able to see that family planning is consistent with their faith values and supports healthy families.
Who is Involved?
The subcommittee includes faith actors committed to interfaith action and collaboration with the global health and family planning community in order to increase understanding and build bridges between different stakeholders to ensure a greater and more significant impact, leading to healthier mothers, babies and families.
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Contact
For more information about the ICFP 2025 Faith Subcommittee, please contact Subcommittee Co-Chair Mona Bormet at mona.bormet@ccih.org. You may contact the ICFP Secretariat at info@theicfp.org.
About the ICFP Faith Subcommittee
The Faith Community Is Key to Universal Access to Family Planning
The Faith Subcommittee formed before the 2016 ICFP in Indonesia to bring together representatives from a variety of faith traditions to share best practices in faith-based involvement in FP, lift up the work of FBOs in family planning to dispel harmful myths and misperceptions, and encourage partnership among FBOs and the broader global health community.
Faith-based health providers are major health care providers around the world. In 2015, The Lancet explored the reach and quality of faith-based health providers, which provide 20 to 70 percent of medical care in Sub-Saharan Africa. According to the Lancet series, evidence indicates that the faith-based providers give care without prejudice to people of all faiths and the populations they serve have a high opinion of the care they receive.
Trusted Voices:
How Faith Leaders Can Communicate Evidence-based FP Information
Hosted by the ICFP 2025 Faith Subcommittee in celebration of World Religion Day, this discussion explores examples of equipping religious leaders with facts about family planning—and shares strategies, challenges, and tools to help faith actors protect the health of their communities.
Faith Video Highlight
Faith & FP: Examples from Kenya, Tchad, Niger and Somalia
Discover Faith sessions at ICFP2022 below.
ICFP Faith Photo Highlights
Strengthening Partnership with Faith Actors in Family Planning: A Strategic Planning Guide
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