The Caribbean Family Planning Affiliation (CFPA) is the only regional non-governmental organization devoted to family planning, sexual and reproductive health care in the Caribbean. The CFPA serves 17 island member associations and 5 associate members in the Caribbean, Central and South America by providing them with technical assistance and materials and representing their collective interests at volunteer meetings of the IPPF and in the Caribbean region among governments and NGOs.

CFPA member affiliates are located in Anguilla, Antigua, Aruba, Bahamas, Bermuda, British Virgin Islands, Curacao, Dominica, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Martinique, Nevis, St. Kitts, St. Lucia, St. Maarten, St. Vincent and the U.S. Virgin Islands. CFPA associate members are located in Belize, Barbados, Guyana, Jamaica, Suriname, and Trinidad and Tobago.

The CFPA does not offer any clinical services or distribute family planning methods to clients, but rather focuses its work on governance and institution-building among its members.

CFPA Technical Assistance and Project Management: The CFPA has taken over the IPPF/WHR’s role of overseeing, managing and analyzing core grants to seven Caribbean member associations. The CFPA also submits project proposals for donor funding on behalf of its members.

Indicate i3: The CFPA is the project manager for this operations research project that investigates the relationship between youth utilization of services in Trinidad and Guyana and how youth-friendly those services are.

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