Blog posts examine how family planning money will be spent, who will oversee program

The Center for Global Development's (CGD) "Global Health Policy" blog on Thursday published two posts addressing family planning funding. In one, Amanda Glassman, director of global health policy and a research fellow at CGD, examines "what organization will actually allocate and spend these additional resources" pledged at the recent London Summit on Family Planning. After examining alternatives, she proposes that USAID's family planning office plan and oversee a program to use the funding, with support from international non-governmental organizations, UNFPA, and the World Bank (7/12). In another post, Glassman and Rachel Silverman, a research assistant at CGD, examine what the money will go toward. They write, "A greater supply of contraception may help, but empirical studies show that conditional cash transfers or scholarships to encourage school continuation or return may be even more effective, both at lowering fertility rates and increasing women's empowerment" (7/12).