Keeping our promises from the London Summit on Family Planning -- establishment of an independent Family Planning 2020 (FP2020) accountability reference group

Following the London Summit on Family Planning, held in July 2012, the UK Department for International Development (DFID) has announced that in order to hold themselves and the global community accountable for reaching the goal of giving access to family planning to 120 million girls and women in some of the world’s poorest countries by 2020, an independent Family Planning 2020 (FP2020) accountability reference group will be set up to ensure that they deliver their promises. This will involve a champions group to provide leadership at the highest level, mobilising additional commitments and maintaining political momentum. The group will be supported by a FP2020 task team which will have day-to-day responsibility for overseeing progress towards the summit's goals. Commitments made at the summit will be published in the next few weeks in an outcome document and added to the UN Secretary General’s ‘Every Woman Every Child’ website.