IFPD's mission is aimed at developing and supporting projects that improve the health and quality of life for women and children in developing countries, and that offer them equal opportunities to participate in the social and economic life of their communities, in compliance with their basic human rights.

IFPD's strategy is based on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), which are to be achieved by 2015, and were determined as follows:

1. Halve the proportion of people who live in extreme poverty and of those who suffer from hunger
2. Achieve universal primary education
3. Promote gender equality and empower women
4. Reduce the child mortality rate by two-thirds
5. Reduce the maternal mortality rate by two-thirds
6. Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria, and other diseases
7. Ensure environmental sustainability
8. Develop a global partnership for development

For further information on the MDGs: http://www.un.org/millenniumgoals/

IFPD works in close collaboration with local partners to develop and implement programmes that focus on access to:

• primary and preventive health
• sexual and reproductive health (1)
• education and training
• income generating activities

The Foundation creates partnerships with governmental institutions, international organisations, NGOs (non governmental organisations) and representatives of the private sector, for resource mobilisation as well as project implementation, in the best interest of all individuals and populations involved.

 

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1 "Reproductive health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being, and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity, in all matters relating to the reproductive system and to its functions and processes. Reproductive health therefore implies that people are able to have a satisfying and safe sex life, and that they have the capability to reproduce and the freedom to decide if, when and how often to do so. Implicit in this last condition are the right of men and women to be informed and to have access to safe, effective, affordable and acceptable methods of family planning of their choice, as well as other methods of their choice for regulation of fertility which are not against the law, and the right of access to appropriate health-care services that will enable women to go safely through pregnancy and childbirth, and provide couples with the best chance of having a healthy infant. In line with the above definition of reproductive health, reproductive health care is defined as the constellation of methods, techniques and services that contribute to reproductive health and well-being by preventing and solving reproductive health problems. It also includes sexual health, the purpose of which is the enhancement of life and personal relations, and not merely counselling and care related to reproduction and sexually transmitted diseases."
Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development, 1994