The target for wealthy nations to spend 0.7% of gross national income on international aid is well known, but a separate benchmark — for 10% to go towards sexual and reproductive health and rights programs — is rather less so.
An updated SRHR Donor Funding Atlas, launched in Brussels by the European Parliamentary Forum for Sexual and Reproductive Rights, or EPF, a group of campaigning European Union parliamentarians, seeks to map how 30 donor countries are performing in this area, revealing which deserve praise and which are falling short.
Why it matters: While official development assistance spending rose in 2022, and some countries have met the 0.7% goal, the share of that funding allocated to SRHR falls woefully short of 10%, the threshold set at an international conference way back in 2002.