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Strategy
Our strategy emerges from a highly participatory strategy design process. It lays out through a vision and strategic objectives what our community cares most about. It defines those pathways and outcomes that RHSC is best positioned to pursue over the next decade.
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The RHSC Strategy 25/35
Some 440 coalition members contributed their time, ideas, and perspectives toward developing the RHSC Strategy
Emphasis on equitable access
Equity is central to RHSC Strategy 25/35. Equitable access means everyone can obtain and use their preferred SRH supplies.
Affordability as a strategic objective
In Strategy 25/35, Affordability joins Availability, Quality, and Choice as a strategic objective. RHSC works to lower prices, support volume guarantees, and expand innovative financing.
Clear long-term outcomes
Clear outcomes set out what RHSC and its partners aim to achieve over the next decade, focusing efforts on the most critical areas for impact (view the strategy map).
Transformational leadership
RHSC’s transformational leadership approach supports stronger engagement across its growing and increasingly diverse membership, strengthens participation across the Coalition, and fosters a more active, collaborative path forward.
Our Enduring Values
Our new strategy builds on the 2015–2025 Strategy, maintaining its core concepts—our levers of change and our principles.
Our Levers of Change
Our Levers of Change
Neutrality
RHSC’s neutrality offers a safe space where individuals from many backgrounds can leave their institutional hats at the door. Members and partners are invited to address sensitive issues, think outside the box, and respect differences of opinion, while remaining focused on common objectives.
Brain Trust
RHSC’s large and diverse membership brings together the best and the brightest from across many sectors and specializations. Through its Member Groups, this brain trust reflects its intellectual capital, incubates new ideas, and supports innovative, cutting-edge solutions. It also intentionally incorporates the experience and hardship of end users in low-resource settings.
Convening Power
Through the diverse network of its members and partners, RHSC is able to rapidly assemble a critical mass of stakeholders and champions, leveraging their comparative strengths, forging a common course of action, and achieving results no single partner could accomplish alone.
Brokering Partnerships
RHSC has a proven track record of brokering partnerships across sectors and regions. In doing so, RHSC puts to strategic use its neutrality and convening power. By tapping the connectivity of its members, the work is based on trust and a common purpose.
Flexible Resource Base
RHSC’s diverse core funding base makes it possible to pursue necessary activities that, for many reasons, may fall outside the remit of a single donor or organization. This flexibility, in addition to the strong volunteerism and in-kind support from its members and partners, makes it possible to act quickly, pursue evidence-based solutions that are custom-designed to address problems and bottlenecks, and respond to the diverse needs and priorities of the global membership.
Respected Name
RHSC’s respected brand, the commitment of its members, and the global visibility of its platform give credibility and weight to its continued work as a global, member-based coalition.
Our Principles
Our Principles
RHSC abides by and adheres to the following:
Add value to the activities of member organizations and associated partners
Avoiding duplication of work by members and partners is accomplished by concentrating on outcomes that no single entity could otherwise achieve on its own. RHSC does not compete with members for funding. Rather, it seeks to leverage comparative strengths and funding sources, especially those amplifying the power and decision-making of members and partners located in the Global South.
Prioritize country and regional leadership while also leveraging RHSC’s role as a global coalition
“Country leadership” means prioritizing country-defined needs, supporting country-driven strategies to address those needs, and leveraging the support of the global community on behalf of country-generated agendas. In addition, forging connections across a range of settings, including at regional and global levels, supports collective action to address market- and systems-based barriers that impede underserved populations having equitable access to reproductive health supplies.
Sexual and reproductive health and rights are fundamental to ensuring equitable access to, and use of, SRH supplies
All individuals have the right to access and use reproductive health supplies without fear of discrimination, coercion, or violence. Recognizing that individuals’ preferences and needs change over time and vary by the individual user, all people, including gender-diverse individuals, have the right to make their own decisions and choices about what options to use or not to use.
Access to SRH supplies is necessary but not sufficient to achieve better sexual and reproductive health
To ensure the availability and affordability of a broad range of high-quality SRH supplies, other significant contributions are necessary. These include strengthened service delivery, greater awareness and demand creation, and conducive policy environments. As a result, RHSC advocates for health systems strengthening and inclusion of a full range of SRH supplies as part of universal health care.
Prioritize work to advance gender equality
Powerful social and cultural realities define identities and the ability to access and use a range of SRH supplies. These include laws, policies, and politics, as well as cultural, community, and family norms. In support of transforming social norms around gender and ending all forms of gender-based discrimination, RHSC promotes a person-centered, responsive approach to ensuring that quality, affordable SRH supplies get to where they need to be in a way that is both equitable and sustainable. Through its work, RHSC ensures that end users have the SRH supplies they need to manage their SRH; supports the entry of more women into supply chain roles; and breaks down the stigmas and taboos that often characterize conversations on reproductive health.
Trust has the power to drive collective action across diverse actors and in diverse settings
Experience shows that building trust is key to creating effective, multisectoral partnerships. Within RHSC, trust is facilitated by sharing information, articulating mutual goals, and applying RHSC’s levers of change to mobilize diverse groups to work collaboratively to achieve meaningful change across sectors.
Voices of the Strategy Redesign
Hear from those who contributed to shaping our 10-year vision.
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“Simply put, the principle of equitable access stems from a rights-based approach to achieving better reproductive health. Equity is the principle binding RHSC’s vision together, motivating our actions and aspirations.”
Martin Gutierrez
Fos Feminista
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“This is a bold, timely commitment. Cost should never come between a person and the life-saving, life-enhancing reproductive health product they need.”
Abigail Winskell
Population Services International
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“This strategy has its eyes firmly fixed on real change, real impact. It is action- and impact-oriented, high on accountability.”
Halima Shariff
SRHR Advocacy and Communications Specialist
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“Building on 20 years of experience, RHSC is offering us a brave and generous model of leadership, promising to encourage, inspire, motivate, and share with its partners to make reproductive health more equitable and fair.”
Manuelle Hurwitz
International Planned Parenthood Federation
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Download the Strategy
RHSC’s Strategy 25/35 is our blueprint for collective action to get lifesaving reproductive health supplies to everybody who needs them.
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Join RHSC to make a difference. Get involved in a Member Group and be a part of our collective action to get reproductive health supplies to everyone who needs them.