Ipas is a global nongovernmental organization dedicated to ending preventable deaths and disabilities from unsafe
abortion and preventing unintended pregnancy. Ipas have programs and offices in Africa, Asia, Latin America and North America. Ipas Bangladesh has worked with the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare since 2011 to increase women’s access to high-quality integrated family planning, menstrual regulation(MR) services and post abortion care in the public sector. Ipas collaborate closely with a wide range of stakeholders including the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) and the Directorate General of Family Planning (DGFP).


Health Sector Activities:

Ipas Bangladesh’s work in the health sector is designated to ensure the provision of high -quality sextual and reproductive health services, with a special emphasis on serving young women. This activity includes:
• Support for more than 200 public-sector health facilities.
• Training for doctors, nurses, Family Welfare Visitors and others health professional in menstrual regulation, post
abortion care, contraceptive provision and counselling.
• Post training follow up support for providers to ensure they are competent and confident in skill.
• Support to DGHS and DGFP on logistics, development of record keeping and data collection tools.


Community Outreach:

At the community level, Ipas Bangladesh works to provide women and young people specially adolescent and newlywed
with the knowledge, skills and social support to make and act on their own reproductive health decisions. Strengthening the linkage between communities and health facilities and organize community dialogue meetings, community radio programs etc. to build awareness of and combat misconceptions about sextual and reproductive health.


Critical Care for Refugees:

Hundreds of thousands of Rohingya community members fleeing violence in Rakhine State in western Myanmar are now
living in or near refugee camps in Bangladesh. Many are women and girls who have been sextually assaulted and are in desperate need reproductive health care. In partnership with the United Nations Population Fund, Ipas Bangladesh implementing training program for midlevel providers to make more SRH services available. Paramedic, midwives and doctors who go through the short training are now able to provide Family Planning, MR and post abortion care.


Technical and policy work:

Ipas Bangladesh participates in several Ministry of Health technical working groups to develop and revise national
technical and procedural guideline. This has included: Women-Centered MR and Post Abortion Care Services:
Reference Manual, Trainer’s manual etc. have been distributed to the providers by the DGHS and DGFP and are
available on the government websites.

Ipas Bangladesh is working 200 government facilities to provide family planning services especially Post-partum and post abortion family planning and safe Menstrual Regulation (MR) and Post Abortion Care (PAC) services. Ipas provides training to the doctors, nurses, Family Welfare Visitors and others health professional in menstrual regulation, post abortion care, contraceptive provision and counselling. Ipas supports to DGHS and DGFP on logistics, development of record keeping and data collection tools.

Hundreds of thousands of Rohingya community members fleeing violence in Rakhine State in western Myanmar are now living in or near refugee camps in Bangladesh. Many are women and girls who have been sextually assaulted and are in desperate need reproductive health care. In other projects, Ipas Bangladesh is working to provide Safe Menstrual Regulation (MR) and Post Abortion Care (PAC) services to the Rohingya women in Cox’s Bazar.