Thursday, October 2, 2008

Who is IPPF?

IPPF International Planned Parenthood Federation.

Many times we will talk about different groups without knowing much about them. The information that I am showing here are directly off of their website http://www.ippf.org/ but sometimes it is good to see the size of this organization to understand them better.

International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF)
Location of Headquarters: London, England
President: Dr Jacqueline Sharpe
Director General: Dr. Gill Greer
Annual Income:
The Member Associations of IPPF are autonomous and report independently, therefore their accounts are not presented here.
The income received by IPPF in 2007 of $120.6 million is an increase of 39 per cent over the last 5 years.
General Description: IPPF currently has 152 Member Associations. These Member Associations are working in 168 countries (the Caribbean Family Planning Affiliation operates in 17 countries). In addition, IPPF is active in a further 12 countries where there is not currently a Member Association. This brings the total number of countries in which IPPF is working to 180. The Member Associations of IPPF are autonomous and report independently, therefore their accounts are not presented here. IPPF has a Secretariat that carries out the policies and functions as approved by the Governing Council. The Secretariat has its headquarters in London and is divided into Central and Regional functional units. There are six regional offices: Africa (Nairobi, Kenya), Arab World (Tunis, Tunisia), East/South East Asia and Oceania (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia), Europe (Brussels, Belgium), South Asia (New Delhi, India), and Western Hemisphere (New York, USA).

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