ICFP Advocacy & Accountability Subcommittee
This community is dedicated to driving policy change and ensuring accountability in SRHR through rights-based advocacy and strategic engagement.
FAQ
What Do You Do?
The A&A subcommittee aims to ensure that advocacy and accountability are highlighted throughout the ICFP. There are many activities planned for the upcoming ICFP 2025 conference including:
- Finding ways to engage donors and decision makers in different ways throughout the conference
- Including advocacy and accountability in various conference sessions
- Leading roundtable discussions and exchanges on topics related to advocacy and accountability
Who is Involved?
We all have a role to play in advocacy and accountability!
Advocacy and accountability play a critical role increasing access to and use of quality family planning services and supplies using evidence and best practices. A&A takes many forms and occurs at all levels – from influencing global platforms like the SDGS and FP2030 and holding countries accountable to their commitments to demanding reform at the local level and ensuring decision makers hear from the people impacted by their actions.
Engaging in advocacy and accountability can speed up and improve the pace, scope, and quality of change to address the ongoing challenges in family planning and ensure that words translate into meaningful action. With so many challenges and opportunities facing the global family planning community, we all have a role to play in advocacy and accountability!
Contact
For more information, please contact the ICFP Secretariat at info@theicfp.org.
About This Subcommittee
The A&A Subcommittee Aims to Initiate and Coordinate Efforts to Highlight the Role of Advocacy and Accountability at the Global, Regional, National, and Sub-national Levels
Advocacy and accountability (A&A) play a critical role increasing access to and use of quality family planning services and supplies using evidence and best practices.
The ICFP Advocacy & Accountability Subcommittee was formed in 2015. At the 2016 ICFP conference in Bali, A&A was featured as a spotlighted conference track for the first time in ICFP’s history.
Since then, recognizing that A&A is essential to the success of efforts throughout the family planning and SRHR community, it has since been integrated into all conference tracks.
The aim of the Advocacy & Accountability Subcommittee is to initiate and coordinate efforts to highlight the role of advocacy and accountability at the global, regional, national and sub-national levels to ensure access to voluntary, quality family planning information, services and supplies in the context of sexual and reproductive health and rights.
Sponsors
Thank you to the sponsors of the ICFP 2025 Advocacy & Accountability Subcommittee Post-conference for supporting this important work.
News
Advocacy & Accountability Subcommittee: Financing the Future
Webinar: Imagining Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights Beyond Aid
A&A Subcommittee
The Advocacy & Accountability (A&A)Subcommittee strengthened advocacy efforts across ICFP by building bridges between movements and forging new alliances for collective action. Through cross-subcommittee collaboration, community-driven ICFP LIVE Stage sessions, and intentional spaces for marginalized voices, the subcommittee demonstrated how intersectional partnerships and aligned messaging amplify impact and create more unified calls to action in the fight for SRHR.
Major Events, Activities, and Impact
Collaboration Across Subcommittees
The A&A Subcommittee worked alongside the Youth, Faith, and Environment and Climate Subcommittees in three working sessions and a main panel. This collaboration built bridges between movements that often operate separately, demonstrating how intentionally aligning SRHR messaging with broader social justice movements can amplify collective impact.
Community-driven ICFP LIVE Stage Sessions
This year, most of the ICFP LIVE Stage community proposals had an advocacy focus, including powerful stories from activists, debates on rights and bodily autonomy, and digital tools transforming how social and political change is promoted. These sessions highlighted the power of activist storytelling and rights-based debates while showcasing how digital platforms are reshaping advocacy strategies.
Lunch & Learn: Centering Marginalized Voices
Three Lunch & Learn spaces opened courageous conversations on the rights of people with disabilities, transgender people, people with diverse gender identities, and sex workers. These intentional spaces demonstrated that centering marginalized voices builds trust across movements and moves communities toward shared, practical solutions to challenges faced by the most vulnerable populations.
Colombia Joins the FP2030 Alliance
The subcommittee helped Colombia become the second country in Latin America to join the FP2030 alliance—a historic step reflecting years of tireless advocacy by Latin American partners and allies. This milestone powerfully demonstrated what is possible when movements align, persist, and act collectively toward shared goals, and how conference momentum can translate into concrete policy commitments.
Impact
This work strengthened solidarity and collaboration across advocacy spaces, reinforcing that SRHR progress depends on intersectional partnerships. By elevating activist voices, promoting inclusive dialogue, and connecting movements that often operate separately, the subcommittee contributed to a more cohesive and energized advocacy community. Supporting Colombia’s entry into the FP2030 alliance demonstrated how conference momentum can translate into concrete policy commitments—signaling that collective advocacy can achieve real, structural progress.
Key Takeaways
Cross-Movement Collaboration and Aligned Messaging Are Essential
Working alongside the Youth, Faith, and Environment & Climate subcommittees demonstrated how building bridges and intentionally aligning SRHR messaging with broader social justice movements amplifies collective impact and creates more unified calls to action. Advocacy is stronger when movements operate together rather than in isolation.
Advocacy Must Center Lived Experience and Adapt to New Tools
Sessions reinforced the power of activist storytelling, rights-based debates, and digital platforms reshaping how social and political change is advanced. Effective advocacy requires messaging that resonates across audiences while remaining grounded in real community experiences, adapting to new tools without losing authentic voices.
Advocates Need Accessible, Actionable Data
A clear call from participants was for stronger investment in data that can be translated into advocacy tools—evidence that supports messaging, informs decision-making, and strengthens the credibility and effectiveness of campaigns, particularly for marginalized communities. Data must be accessible and actionable, not just available.
Intentional Spaces for Marginalized Voices Build Trust
The Lunch & Learn conversations on disability rights, gender diversity, and sex workers’ rights showed that courageous dialogue can build trust across movements and move communities toward shared, practical solutions. Creating these spaces is not optional—it’s essential for inclusive, effective advocacy.
Powerful Voices
“A defining moment was witnessing Colombia formally announce its commitment to FP2030 alliance on the stage at the Closing Ceremony. While this milestone reflects years of tireless advocacy by Latin American partners and allies, it powerfully demonstrated what is possible when movements align, persist, and act collectively toward shared goals.”
Next Steps:
Calls to Action
For Cross-movement Collaborators:
Continue building bridges between SRHR advocacy and broader social justice movements. Intentionally align messaging to create unified calls to action that amplify collective impact.
For Advocates and Activists:
Ground messaging in lived experience and community voices. Embrace digital tools and new platforms while maintaining authentic storytelling that resonates across diverse audiences.
For Researchers and Data Producers:
Invest in translating data into accessible advocacy tools. Ensure evidence supports messaging, informs decision-making, and strengthens campaign credibility, particularly for marginalized communities.
For the ICFP Community:
Create intentional spaces for marginalized voices—people with disabilities, transgender and gender-diverse individuals, sex workers, and others. Courageous dialogue builds trust and moves toward practical solutions.
The subcommittee will explore implementing advocacy strategies for funding discussed at the post-conference meeting and continue work on specific advocacy actions to keep the ICFP community alive and advancing collective goals.
Community Calendar
Stay engaged in the collective effort to advance sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR).
The ICFP Community Calendar highlights past and upcoming SRHR events hosted by ICFP subcommittees, partners, and members of the global community—creating opportunities to learn, collaborate, and keep momentum moving year-round.
Explore what’s next and find ways to stay involved.
Meet the ICFP Community
The ICFP platform is anchored by 11 dynamic subcommittees, bringing together individuals and organizations from across the global sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) community.