Various contraceptives lying on a wooden table. © GIZ / Florent Banissa

Advancing sexual and reproductive health and rights; supporting demographic developments

Sector Initiative Population Dynamics, Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (PD/SRHR)

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  • Client

    German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ)

  • Country
  • Runtime

    2024 to 2027

  • Products and expertise

    Social development

School girls in Nepal learn how to use sanitary pads.

Context

By 2050, the world’s population is expected to grow by two billion people. Access to sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) will greatly impact how large this increase will actually be.

When women can decide freely about their lives, it improves their opportunities for education and employment. They then often opt for more conscious family planning, have fewer children or wait until later in life.

A mother cradles her newborn baby.

These demographic changes influence global challenges such as poverty reduction, food security, the provision of infrastructure, environmental protection and climate change mitigation.

Objective

Access to SRHR services is improved and population dynamics are integrated into development policy strategies and measures.

Approach

The project supports the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) in designing and implementing development policies that promote SRHR and take demographic trends into account.

 

The priority areas of advisory services include:

  • Advancing the sexual and reproductive rights of women and other vulnerable groups
  • Promoting rights-based family planning
  • Improving the range of, and access to, sexual and reproductive health services

To this end, the project works with partners from politics, civil society and international organisations including the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), the International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF) and the Global Financing Facility for Women, Children and Adolescents (GFF).

Moreover, the project gathers practical experiences from other projects and incorporates them into its advisory services.

In order to enhance the right to bodily autonomy, reproductive health and gender equality in the long run, the project also supports BMZ with representing its evidence-based positions in international negotiations.

Last update: March 2025

Men in Tanzania learn how contraception with condoms works.

Additional information

Expertise

A large group of people in a village environment

Population dynamics and demographic change

Expertise

 Forschende in Laborkitteln nehmen Proben aus einer Zentrifuge.

Global health security

Expertise

 Ein Kind sitzt auf dem Schoß einer Frau vor einem Mann an einem Tisch, der ein Formular ausfüllt.

Universal Health Coverage

Our services

Female students sitting in a class.

Social development