The Ipas Impact Network is a nonprofit organization that works with national, regional, and global partners, to improve sexual and reproductive health and rights, with a focus on ensuring that high-quality safe abortion and contraceptive information and services are available, accessible, and acceptable.
Ipas builds resilient abortion and contraception ecosystems using a comprehensive approach across sectors, institutions, and communities. We center our work on the needs and perspectives of individuals who seek abortion care, and we strive to better center the needs and perspectives of all people who can become pregnant. Our approach addresses all the factors that impact a person’s ability to access abortion. We are working toward a sustainable abortion ecosystem, a dynamic condition in which resilient local stakeholders are actively accountable and committed to abortion rights and responsive to everyone’s abortion needs. We know that to achieve this, we must work through effective, equitable, and intersectional partnerships, integrating abortion into broader health, gender equality, and social justice movements.
In Africa, Ipas has programmatic offices in Burundi, Côte d’Ivoire, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Nigeria, South Africa, and Zambia and operates programs in Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Chad, Guinea, Madagascar, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Senegal, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda.