ICFP LIVE is open to everyone.
From deeply personal storytelling to youth-driven advocacy and artistic performance, this year’s ICFP LIVE Community lineup showcases a powerful range of ideas redefining what it means to advance sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR). The first set of accepted segments reveal a shared passion for justice, inclusion, and creativity—all while reflecting the diversity and boldness of the global family planning movement.
The highlights below feature our community-led segments that make up the “Community Voice” of ICFP LIVE. ICFP LIVE also includes the ICFP Morning Show and FPNN Primetime. All LIVE Stage programming is free of charge and streamable from anywhere with an internet connection, reflecting our commitment to accessibility and equity.
This year’s line-up spans formats (solo talks, one-on-ones, panels, performances), fields (advocacy, programs, research), and geographies across Africa, the Americas, Asia, the Caribbean, Europe, and the Middle East. Below is a taste of the diversity you’ll find—along with the people bringing it to life.
Please note while we have tried to group together segments in an easy-to-browse format, the spirit of ICFP LIVE celebrates creative and interdisciplinary approaches, so many of these segments will cut across categories.
Creative Expression, Storytelling, & Artivism
Expect movement, music, and spoken word alongside message-driven storytelling:
- Debanjana Choudhuri (Women’s Global Network for Reproductive Rights) blends dialogue with performance in Artivism: Expression of angst in turbulent times; a call for SRHR for all.
- Komugisha Olivia (Reproductive Health Uganda) and Rita Puri (WOSSO/YoSHAN) bring performance and youth leadership to the fore.
- Erin Jorgensen (Shout Your Abortion) shares Positive Propaganda!—grassroots creativity as a catalyst for change.
- Akriti Saronwala (MTV Staying Alive Foundation) spotlights storytelling that centers youth voices to shift narratives and behaviors.
- Djamila Sawadogo (Association Gender Impact) presents a testimony of shame attached to the trauma of unsafe abortion, and the journey of courage and reclamation of bodily autonomy.
- Lucy Esquivel (Red de Trabajadoras Sexuales de Latinoamérica y el Caribe (RedTraSex) — Shares storytelling by and for sex workers to dismantle stigma.
- Alba Lucía Reyes Arenas (Sergio Urrego Foundation) — Shares a mother’s rights-based testimony exposing systemic discrimination.
- Rachel Lawerh (University of Ottawa) uses photo-journalism to reveal the daily realities of girls living with HIV, confronting SRH realities, and committing to change.
- Sacha-Marie Hill Lindo (Researcher): Blends personal experience with research data to reflect on the enabling environment for family size and childbearing in Jamaica.
- Jo Johnson (IPPF, Americas and Caribbean): centers anonymized audio from sex workers, LGBTQI+ people, and young Caribbean community members to humanize headlines and statistics of SRHR realities in the Caribbean.
Youth Power, Leadership & Participation
Young advocates are debating, designing, and delivering solutions:
- Isabella Michael (SAYWHAT) — Mobilizes peers through debate and quizzes to make SRHR engaging on campus.
- Varun Sharma (Population Foundation of India) — Youth-focused SBC campaign challenging early-marriage pressure and expanding choice.
- Sila Shahid (Baithak – Challenging Taboos, Pakistan) — Co-creates a “masculinity manifesto” with young men for gender-equitable SRHR.
- Everlyne Bowa (AWOCHE Foundation, Kenya) — Survivor-led, community-rooted talk on period poverty and SRHR justice.
- Sandra Raquel Villalta Caal (Association AMA) — Sports, life skills, and economic empowerment for pregnant adolescents and young mothers in Guatemala.
- Tasnima Iqbal (BRAC) on how youth-led AI tools are reshaping how we can support GBV survivors and shift mindsets towards gender equality.
Inclusion, Disability & Mental Health
Designing with, not for, toward equitable SRHR:
- Marieke van Gerwen (Liliane Fonds / Rutgers-linked practice) — Disability-inclusive SRHR training that centers accessibility and agency.
- Ivana Montenegro (Cemoplaf) — Integrating mental health with sexual health for marginalized youth.
- Susan Sabano (Umbrella Cerebral Palsy Network Association, Uganda) — Lived-experience advocacy advancing disability inclusion in SRHR services.
Digital Access & SRHR
From censored content to digital advocacy and viral myth-busting:
- Venny Ala-Siurua (Women on Web) addresses how platform rules, AI moderation, and state censorship shape access to safe-abortion information.
- Babirye Aidah Nakanjako (Reproductive Health Uganda) shares how young people turned misinformation into a media wave to address myths and spur contraceptive uptake.
- Amarachi Ijeoma (W.H. Gates Sr. Institute and online influencer) shares tools to harness digital media to safeguard misinformation and share accurate knowledge on reproductive health.
Science, Research & Innovation
New evidence and technologies—clear, practical, and people-centered:
- Emily Hoppes (FHI 360) hosts a panel titled, The Exchange: What’s Exciting the Experts About Contraceptive Science.
- Doris Omao (APHRC) shows how strategic communications turned one study into a government inquiry.
- Ximena Armendáriz Nicho (RHSC) facilitates a panel on breaking bottlenecks to expand immediate post-event contraception in Latin America and the Caribbean.
The Climate Crisis & SRHR
Linking environmental stress and crisis response to SRHR realities:
- Isabel Adriana Garcia (IPPF Americas & the Caribbean / Climate & Health Diplomacy) — Climate shocks deepen SRHR inequities; centering Global South experiences.
- Mamadou Diop (Espace Ados de Pikine – Senegal) — Showcase immersive audio storytelling humanizing family planning realities in climate-displaced communities.
Programs & Implementation—Community First
Local leadership, participatory grantmaking, and new partnership models:
- Sofia Peters (Global Fund for Women) on what participatory grantmaking means for SRJ.
- Sonali Silva (EngenderHealth) shares key lessons learned and emerging good practices for NGOs to effectively partner with youth-led organizations.
- Leah Ogada-Wanaswa (Tiko) —shares lessons from the world’s first ASRH development impact bond, an innovative platform linking youth groups and catalytic funders.
Rights, Justice & Changing Norms
Law, faith, migration, and the climate crisis meet SRHR realities:
- Gracia Violeta Ross Quiroga (World Council of Churches) links HIV, faith leadership, and youth advocacy.
- Aminata Dia (Elles du Sahel) hosts an intimate conversation bteween two young Sahelian women exploring feminist resistance, taboos, and sisterhood through lived experience.
- Dr. Joia Crear-Perry (National Birth Equity Collaborative) reframes family planning through reproductive justice and power building.
- Zongo Abdoul Ismaël (Ouagadougou Partnership) through video testimony, urges action for internally displaced youth in Burkina Faso.
- Fernanda Doz Costa (Amnesty International) spotlights defending abortion rights defenders.
- Swetha Sridhar (Fos Feminista) on how family can foster equity, challenge stigma, and ensure reproductive health policies reflect the realities of all communities.
- Mamta Behera (Global Sexual Health Pleasure, and Justice Initiative) with unapologetic message centering sexual pleasure in SRHR, challenging taboos and calling for a global shift where sexual rights meet sexual delight for all.
Power, Policy & the Global Agenda for Accountability
Big systems, honest conversations:
- Dakshitha Wickremarathne (FP2030 and ICFP Advocacy & Accountability Subcommittee) joins a regional panel of government representatives on closing the gap in Asia’s unmet need.
- Traci L. Baird (EngenderHealth) convenes a panel of four stories from Africa about the impact of USAID’s project closures and communities are managing after the massive funding cuts.
- Marcelo Echeverría Moran (La Incre S.A.) shares a virtual reality-powered innovation used to advocate for SRHR access in Ecuador.
Formats you’ll see on stage
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🎙️ Solo talks: concise, focused, personal.
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🤝 One-on-one interviews: deep dives with implementers, advocates, and researchers.
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🧑🤝🧑 Panels: multiple lenses on shared challenges.
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🎭 Performances & 🎨 Art/entertainment: poetry, dance, music, and visual storytelling.
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🧩 Program spotlights & 📊 research shares: hard-won lessons, new methods, and usable evidence.
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🧾 Interactive/other: debates, live media, photovoice, and audio storytelling.
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Be part of the conversation—live in Bogotá or virtually. Don’t miss the LIVE Stage moments that move policy, shift norms, and accelerate progress.
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