Blue Ventures Conservation

2018

Commitment Progress

Through Blue Ventures’ holistic, multisector approach to supporting coastal communities to manage their resources sustainably, we are increasing access to and uptake of family planning services for some of world’s most remote, underserved communities. Working with partners, we improved access to family planning services for 225,000 communities living in remote areas of high biodiversity in Madagascar. Working with partners in the Comoros, Kenya, Mozambique and Indonesia we are currently working to improve access to family planning services for a further 43,000 people. Women report being healthier, being better able to look after their families and being better able to earn a livelihood.

2017 – London Family Planning Summit

In support of FP2020 and Every Woman Every Child, Blue Ventures commits to increasing access to family planning services for 600,000 people living in remote areas of high biodiversity, in a total of seven FP2020 target countries by December 2020. This will be achieved through supporting replication of our award-winning, holistic approach to community health and environmental conservation (often known as the Population-Health-Environment or PHE approach), implemented through cross-sector partnerships between health and environmental organisations. In Madagascar, a total of 250,000 people will have increased access to family planning services by 2020. This will be achieved through a combination of scaling up Blue Ventures’ own PHE efforts, and through PHE partnerships developed with technical support from Blue Ventures. In addition, by 2020, four new PHE partnerships will be supported in Mozambique, four in Kenya, four in Tanzania, four in Indonesia, one in Timor-Leste and one in the Comoros, reaching an estimated 350,000 people.