Civil Society perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health, Rights and Justice in Latin America and the Caribbean.
In commemoration of the 10th Anniversary of the Montevideo Consensus (MC), Fòs Feminista supported 20 CSOs in the creation of national reports that document the progress, gaps, challenges, and best practices in delivering SRHRJ commitments for women, girls and gender-diverse individuals and their different intersections. Moreover, Fòs supported five regional networks led by Afro-descendants, young people, women with disabilities, indigenous women, and transgender people.
Fòs identified five priority topics within SRHRJ: 1) Abortion, 2) Comprehensive Sexuality education, 3) Gender-Based Violence, 4) Family Planning and Contraception and 5) Youth-Friendly Services. A report is available for each of these priority topics and a sixth report highlights the specific challenges faced by Systematically Excluded Communities (SEC) in the region. The report on SEC can be accessed by those seeking a more detailed analysis of the SRHRJ issues faced by SEC, than those outlined in this report. The analysis of each priority topic couers six major areas of assessment: 1) Legal Framework, 2) Financial Framework, 3) Programmatic Framework, 4) Territorial Inequalities, 5) Civil Society participation, and 6) Data Access, Generation and Quality. Each priority topic includes sections for Recommendations and the identification of Best Practices, from both CSOs and national governments. Designed to be adaptable, the framework recognizes the expertise of participating networks and the limitation of publicly available information. This flexibility allowed these networks to identify other priority issues and undertake political analyses tailored to the specific contexts they addressed.
MQTM monitors Family Planning and Contraception (FPC), focusing on compliance scores in the provision of FPC across 18 countries. The monitoring assesses legal, political, programmatic, and operational frameworks, dissemination campaigns, evaluation/complaints systems and available resources.
Overall, we see a marginal 1% increase in compliance rising from 70% in 2017 to 71% in 2023 in all 24 countries monitored by MQTM. Across the 18 monitored countries for this report, 5.5% exhibit optimal, 61% exhibit good, 28% can improve and 5.5% limited compliance, with none falling into the deficient category. Puerto Rico stands out with a limited compliance score of 41%, facing challenges such as resource shortages, and a deficit in dissemination campaigns and evaluation/complaints system. The collective compliance score for the 18 countries included in this report is 75%, indicating an overall good compliance to ensuring SRHS.
This flexibility allowed these networks to identify other priority issues and undertake political analyses tailored to the specific contexts they addressed.
