SAAF will be at ICFP in Bogotá!

Two members of the SAAF team - our Director Maïté Matos Ichaso, and Laura Gutierrez - will be attending the International Conference on Family Planning (ICFP) ([link removed]) next week. They will meet with partners from around the world, including representatives from 23 SAAF grantee partner organisations. We have shared some SAAF grantee partner events online ([link removed]) and are excited there will be so many opportunties to discuss accessibility of abortion care at the conference!

The impact of funding cuts on SAAF grantee partners

We asked our grantee partners how global funding cuts and increased opposition have impacted their work. 60 organisations responded to an anonymous survey and shared their insights, including ways they are resisting increased authoritarianism and reduced budgets.

Find out how abortion advocates are affected in our latest blogpost available as always in English ([link removed]) , French ([link removed]) and Spanish ([link removed]) .

How funding cuts are impacting SAAF grantee partners ([link removed])

"We are the abortion experts"

Did you see our latest interviews with abortion activists and accompaniers at Di Ramona?

Since first receiving SAAF funding in 2022 Di Ramona has supported almost 10,000 people to access safe abortion care in Mexico.

Stories from Di Ramona in Mexico ([link removed])

SAAF grantee partner spotlight: Bloco A

Bloco A in-person training for medical students and healthcare providers.
Funded by SAAF since 2020, Bloco A partners with healthcare providers and students to strengthen sexual and reproductive health care in Brazil.

Bloco A works to reduce abortion stigma and promote harm-reduction approaches in healthcare education and practice, by integrating evidence-based information on abortion and post-abortion care into the education of nursing and medical students.

Their online course 'Ampara' ([link removed]) has been hugely impactful, already reaching over 25,000 participants nationwide. In an impact assessment, more than 92% of respondents reported that the knowledge they acquired significantly improved their professional practice in caring for women and pregnant people.

Bloco A is currently working to launch a new course focused on abortion care and access for young women who have experienced sexual violence.

Current funding opportunities
* The Doria Feminist Fund ([link removed]) is accepting grant applications ([link removed]) in English, French and Arabic from feminist groups in the MENA region. Deadline to apply: 15 November
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* The UN Trust Fund ([link removed]) is offering long-term, flexible support to feminist organisations commited to ending violence against women and girls. Four-year grants of up to $800,000 are available, and applications are accepted in English, French and Spanish. Deadline to apply: 19 November
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* The International Trans Fund ([link removed]) is funding trans-led organisations with budgets below $100,000 based in any region of the world. They accept applications in English, French, Russian, Simplified Chinese and Spanish. Deadline to apply: 1 December

SAAF is hosted by IPPF. If you wish to report anything which concerns you about our work, or the work of our grantee partners (such as abuse, fraud, malpractice) please consider using the confidential external incident reporting service IPPF SafeReport ([link removed]) .

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