These donors—and the parliaments that approve their budgets—grew impatient with “traditional” approaches to aid that produced limited results or benefited the rich more than the poor. They now favor results-oriented programs that seek to address the underlying structural problems of poverty or broad international development goals, rather than provide specific health services. Current health fund- ing is more likely to be tied to broader grants or the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), which do not include family planning and reproductive rights. To respond to this shift in donor priorities, the reproductive health sector needs to demonstrate that poor reproductive health does, in fact,.
