Round 6 of SAAF funding is here!

We are excited to welcome a new cohort of grantee partners to the SAAF network.

This week we are hosting the final of four inception workshops for organisations new to SAAF to finalise their plans and get to know each other. This cohort of newly funded organisations will begin their SAAF funded work in October this year and we will share more about their work in our next newsletter.

We have also renewed funding for 50 existing grantee partners in 35 countries around the world. You can find out more about these organisations on our website in English ([link removed]) , French ([link removed]) , Spanish ([link removed]) .


SAAF is recruiting!

We are looking for a Senior Finance Adviser to support the SAAF team. This is open to anyone who can work from Nairobi (Kenya) or Abidjan (Côte d’Ivoire) and who speaks both French and English.

Find out more information on our website and please share this with your networks - the deadline to apply is 21 August 2022.
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SAAF Annual Report 2021


A reminder that SAAF's latest Annual Report is now available to read in English ([link removed]) , French ([link removed]) and Spanish ([link removed]) . Thank you to all those who shared information with us!

Read the SAAF Annual Report ([link removed])

News and updates

* On 24 June, a Supreme Court ruling rolled back abortion rights in the US. Of course this is already having a devastating effect in the States, and global reproductive rights activists are also feeling the impact. SAAF signed on to an international statement ([link removed]) speaking out against the decision, and we have shared some experiences from our global partners ([link removed]) here.
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More positive news comes from Sierra Leone, where the President has supported a bill which would expand access to safe legal abortion ([link removed]) . We congratulate SAAF grantee partner WHRRO ([link removed]) for their important role in advocating for this progress.
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* SAAF grantee partner Manodiversa conducted research on abortion and reproductive healthcare access for the LGBTQ community in Bolivia which was featured by Gay Times in English ([link removed]) and Gay Vox in French ([link removed]) .

SAAF grantee partner spotlight: ICRH Mozambique

Centro Internacional Para Saúde Reprodutiva (ICRH-M) is a non-profit organisation with a mission to improve sexual and reproductive health in Mozambique. They have been funded by SAAF since the start of 2020 and have made some amazing achievements during this time.

With a focus on the Tete province in Central Mozambique, ICRH-M has trained abortion providers to increase the availability of high-quality services. They have also worked with community leaders to raise public awareness of safe legal abortion - although the law was liberalised in 2014 many are still unaware of their rights.

From January 2020 to March 2022, at least 1800 women and girls were able to access safe abortion care thanks to ICRH-M(compared to just 215 in 2019). The number of women and girls resorting to unsafe abortion methods reduced by a huge 75%.

Find out more about ICRH-M ([link removed])

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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