Rethinking Global Family Planning Measurement: Bringing in a Rights, Justice and Person-Centered Lens

  • INED Mondays

03-16-2026 11h30-12h30

Ined, salle Sauvy ou distanciel

      Intervenantes :

  •  Ilene Speizer, Research Professor, Maternal and Child Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
  •  Elizabeth Sully, Principal Research Scientist, Guttmacher Institute.

    Discutante :
  •  Heini Vaisanen, Researcher at the Institut national d’études démographiques (INED), France, Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights and Demography of the Global South units.

As an exception, prior registration is required to attend this event remotely via this link. 

The conference will be presented in English and instantly translated into French for remote viewers.

 

 

The IUSSP Panel on Rethinking Family Planning Measurement with a Rights and Justice Lens has been working for the last three years to help strengthen measurement of the need for and use of family planning. This presentation provides a summary of the Panel’s work and important advancements being made in family planning measurement. Our presentation will review the major paradigms of family planning measurement and arguments for new frameworks and measures as we move into the next era of global indicators (i.e., post-Sustainable Development Goals). Drawing on the three frameworks of reproductive rights, reproductive justice, and person-centered measurement, we lay out what should be guiding the development and adoption of new family planning measures. We share findings from a global consensus building exercise around improved family planning measurement and summarize findings from that exercise. Finally, we present findings from a recommendations workshop held with a global pool of experts in November 2025 and present draft recommendations from our three-year scope of work. 

 

Ilene SpeizerZoom sur l'image
Ilene Speizer

Ilene Speizer, PhD, is currently Research Professor of Maternal and Child Health at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Gillings School of Global Public Health and a Faculty Fellow at the Carolina Population Center. She is a demographer and evaluation researcher and has led research and evaluation studies in Africa, India, Haiti, and the U.S. Much of her work focuses on family planning, HIV prevention, the meaning and measurement of unintended pregnancy, adolescent sexual and reproductive health, and gender-based violence.  She is co-leading the IUSSP Panel on Rethinking Family Planning Measurement with a Reproductive Justice and Rights Lens. 
 

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Elizabeth Sully

Elizabeth Sully, PhD, is Director of International Research at the Guttmacher Institute. Her research focuses on abortion measurement, adolescent reproductive health, and the impact and cost-effectiveness of sexual and reproductive health services. She has authored influential studies on the indirect estimation of abortion, contraceptive need and use, and the returns on investment in family planning services that have advanced measurement and informed policy deliberations internationally. Dr. Sully co-chairs the FP2030 Performance Monitoring Working Group and the IUSSP Scientific Panel on Rethinking Family Planning Measurement and serves on UNFPA’s technical advisory group on sexual and reproductive agency.