Margaret Pyke Trust

14/10/2024

A huge THANK YOU to those of you who have already donated to Margaret Pyke Trust's Women and Girls Match Fund ( ) campaign. We are absolutely delighted to let you know that we have hit our target, and your donations will help us make double the difference!

There is still time to donate if you are able, which you can do by going to: https://shorturl.at/B5mCq

Since we’ve hit our target, further donations will not be doubled, but you can still contribute until midday Thursday 17 October 2024 – and every donation supports women and girls’ access to life-saving sexual and reproductive health services through our USHAPE programme in Uganda.

10/10/2024

We have exciting news! Margaret Pyke Trust has been selected to participate in the Big Give’s Women and Girls Match Fund ( ). This means that until noon on 17 October 2024 (UK time), every contribution made to us via our Big Give campaign page will be DOUBLED: https://shorturl.at/B5mCq

All funds raised will go towards USHAPE, our family planning training and service improvement programme. USHAPE supports hospitals to provide low-cost and high-quality sexual and reproductive health training for clinical staff, which is severely lacking in Uganda. It was designed with Ugandan clinicians to respond to the specific health challenges in rural Uganda.

USHAPE makes a real difference to the lives of women and girls who often cannot receive the life-saving reproductive health services they want due to a lack of trained healthcare providers: over the last three years alone, USHAPE implementation has averted an estimated 4,000 unintended pregnancies, and saved the lives of approximately 15 mothers and 200 children from preventable deaths.

By donating (and sharing this post!), you are directly helping women and girls choose the safe, suitable and effective contraception they want, and you’re helping to sustain all the work we do at Margaret Pyke Trust. If you're able, please donate here: https://shorturl.at/B5mCq

Thank you for your support!

13/05/2024

We are excited to share a new publication from the IUCN Biodiversity & Family Planning Task Force.

Countries which have ratified the Convention on Biological Diversity are required to develop and implement national biodiversity strategies and are currently updating these plans.

In "Reproductive choice in national biodiversity policy" we introduce the background to the plans, highlight how to engage in national revision processes, and suggest arguments to use in order to promote the importance of removing barriers to voluntary and rights-based family planning and the development of new Population, Health and Environment (PHE) programmes within those plans.

Download the plan here: https://margaretpyke.org/nbsap

25/04/2024

Our pro-bono lawyers, Milbank LLP have been nominated for an award by the Thomson Reuters Foundation for their legal work representing us on the legal framework for our project in Uganda. Well done and thank you! Read more https://tmsnrt.rs/4b4QZxF

12/02/2024

What Does Reproductive Health Have to Do With Climate Vulnerability? https://reasonstobecheerful.world/what-does-reproductive-health-have-to-do-with-climate-vulnerability/

Delighted to have worked with the wonderful health & environment journalist Veronika Perková on this balanced and insightful article highlighting the growing awareness of how reproductive choice contributes to climate adaptation and resilience.

Around the world, people and organizations are starting to recognize the role family planning can play in climate adaptation and resilience.

03/12/2023

Today is at COP28 UAE! Join us at the Uganda Pavilion this morning to discuss Uganda's journey to making the health sector more resilient to climate change Margaret Pyke Trust

23/11/2023

Margaret Pyke Trust and FP2030 are delighted to be leading this event: An undervalued pathway to climate resilience: Investing in family planning to empower women and girls. Join global health, development and climate leaders to learn about the importance of empowering women and girls as a pathway to climate resilience.
For those at COP28, join the event in person on 4 December, 18.30-19.30 GST, SE Room 5, Blue Zone, or watch the livestream from around the world on the UNFCCC YouTube Channel.

21/11/2023

Going to COP28? Our first event, “Empowering women and girls and building climate resilience: How the biodiversity and reproductive health sectors can achieve greater results for people & planet” will be held on Saturday 2 December 2023, in IUCN’s Blue Zone pavilion. If you are in Dubai, please join us at 16h00. Alternatively, you can live stream our session (12h00 GMT, 14h00 Central Africa Time and 15h00 Eastern Africa Time).

18/10/2023

The Global Species Action Plan has just been launched in Nairobi, and sets out a transformative path for countries to respond to biodiversity loss and recognises that “removal of barriers to rights-based voluntary family planning” is one of the many complementary actions we must undertake to do so. This ground-breaking development, in the flagship biodiversity plan that is meant to guide countries as they plan their actions to achieve the Global Biodiversity Framework, was a direct result of our work over many months.

27/09/2023

Margaret Pyke Trust is featured in the recently launched FP2030 Partnership Report. You can read our interview here:

“Prominent climate scientists are saying we need to improve access to reproductive health, and we need to improve reproductive choice, because we see that this improves the ability of individuals, families, and communities to adapt to and be more resilient to climate change, in addition to being a...

22/07/2023

In Rukiga, Uganda, we are working with International Crane Foundation and Rugarama Hospital. Today, some conservation staff asked to learn more about the range of 11 modern methods of contraception that are included in our service provision. We were happy to oblige, as we've learned so much from them about climate smart agriculture, wetlands and cranes.