Press Release: Commissioner Piebalgs to announce new support for family planning: ‘Women must be empowered to choose the size of their family’

New support which will help to provide additional life-saving, affordable, contraceptive information, services, and supplies to women and girls in the world’s poorest countries was announced by EU Development Commissioner, Andris Piebalgs.

The new €23 million package forms part of the commitment which will be confirmed at a family planning summit organised by the UK Government and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, in partnership with UNFPA, partner country national governments, donors, civil society, the private sector and the research and development community. The European Commission pledge contributes to the summit's goal of providing family planning services to an additional 120 million women by 2020 in the poorest developing countries.