| MISSION STATEMENT |
FORM 990, PART I, LINE 1 & Part III, Line 1 IPPF/WHR AIMS TO IMPROVE THE QUALITY OF LIFE OF INDIVIDUALS BY campaigning FOR SEXUAL AND REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH AND RIGHTS THROUGH ADVOCACY AND SERVICES, ESPECIALLY FOR POOR AND VULNERABLE PEOPLE. WE DEFEND THE RIGHT OF ALL YOUNG PEOPLE TO ENJOY THEIR SEXUAL LIVES FREE FROM ILL HEALTH, UNWANTED PREGNANCY, VIOLENCE AND DISCRIMINATION. WE SUPPORT A WOMAN'S RIGHT TO CHOOSE TO TERMINATE HER PREGNANCY LEGALLY AND SAFELY. WE STRIVE TO ELIMINATE SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED INFECTIONS AND REDUCE THE SPREAD AND IMPACT OF HIV/AIDS. ORGANIZATION'S MISSION & PROGRAM SERVICES FORM 990, PART III, LINES 4A-4D International Planned Parenthood Federation Western Hemisphere Region, Inc. (IPPF/WHR), a NOT-FOR-PROFIT corporation exempt from income taxes under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code, was established to promote sexual and reproductive health, including family planning, in the Western Hemisphere. While IPPF/WHR is an independent legal entity, it also functions as a regional partner of International Planned Parenthood Federation, headquartered in London, England (IPPF/London). IPPF/WHR supports and coordinates sexual and reproductive health, including family planning activities carried out by 39 autonomous national member associations (MAs) in the Western Hemisphere, six collaborative partners, and a number of other nonprofit organizations; including federacion internacional de la planeacion familiar - mexico, A.c., a mexican entity formed in 2017. IPPF/WHR also provides financial and technical assistance and advisory services to these organizations. Such amounts from IPPF/London represented 30% and 18% of total operating support and revenue for the years ended December 31, 2017 and 2016, respectively. |
| Unrestricted support received from IPPF/London is used for both |
program and supporting services. other unrestricted support received by IPPF/WHR is allocated in amounts determined by the IPPF/WHR Allocations Committee of the board of directors to projects, the purpose of which is to advance the cause of sexual and reproductive health, including family planning. In 2017 and 2016, IPPF/London has made grantS directly to IPPF/WHR for its use in the region. The IPPF/WHR activities respond and contribute to the Global Strategic Framework of IPPF/London. The Strategic Framework 20152022 is a bold and aspirational vision of what IPPF/London plans to achieve and how IPPF/WHR will achieve it, over the next seven years. It is the culmination of an extensive global consultative process involving MAs, partners, and donors, and was approved by IPPF/Londons highest decision-making body, the Governing Council, in November 2014. The Global Strategic Framework sets the priorities that will allow IPPF/London to deliver impact as a sexual and reproductive health and right (SRHR) movement over the next seven years. It will guide national MAs and partners in formulating their own country-specific strategies, based on their resources and is tailored to serve the most marginalized groups in local contexts. It also provides focus to the Secretariat in its international influence and in its support to MAs. IPPF/WHRs strategy responds to social, political, and demographic global trends. These include the expectations and potential of the largest ever generation of young people; ongoing, significant social and economic inequalities, including discrimination against girls and women; and opposition that threatens gains in human rights. It is also guided by evaluations and analyses of IPPF/WHRs work strengths, weaknesses, capacities, resources, and networks. The IPPF/WHR implementation plan covers the first four years of the new Strategic Framework (2016-2019). The mid-term review of the strategy will occur in 2019. The outcome from that review will inform the second implementation plan (20202022). These dates also align with many government donors who will update their five-year strategies in 2019 and with the completion of the IPPF Vision 2020 and commitments made to Family Planning 2020 (FP2020). The resource allocation will respond to the priority objectives of the IPPF/WHR implementation plan. Advocacy is priority objective one: Galvanize commitment and secure legislative, policy, and regulatory improvements. Although many governments have made public statements in support of sexual and reproductive health and rights, and gender equality, many of them have failed to realize their commitments through supportive legislation, policy, and funding. IPPF/WHR will further invest in advocacy at all levels, including supporting Member Associations with capacity building, funding, and monitoring. IPPF/WHR will target key institutions, support and foster interested parliamentarians, engage with community and faith networks, and influence local regional and international processes. ENGAGE LEADERS IS PRIORITY OBJECTIVE TWO: ENGAGE WOMEN AND YOUTH LEADERS AS ADVOCATES FOR CHANGE. THE DENIAL OF SEXUAL AND REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH AND RIGHTS AFFECTS WOMEN AND YOUNG PEOPLE DISPROPORTIONATELY, SO IT IS IMPORTANT THEY HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO BE AT THE FOREFRONT OF EFFORTS TO SECURE POLICY AND PRACTICE CHANGE FROM GOVERNMENTS. IPPF/WHR WILL STRENGTHEN ITS LINKS WITH YOUTH AND WOMENS ORGANIZATIONS AND PROVIDE PATHWAYS FOR WOMEN AND YOUNG LEADER - PARTICULARLY GIRLS - WITHIN IPPF/LONDON. THESE PROGRAMS WILL BE DESIGNED IN-COUNTRY AND WILL AIM TO ENGAGE SOCIALLY EXCLUDED INDIVIDUALS, WHO MAY NOT TYPICALLY BE INVOLVED. PROGRAMS WILL PROMOTE MALE INVOLVEMENT IN SRHR, AND ADDRESS ISSUES RELATED TO MASCULINITY, GENDER, AND SEXUALITY. IPPF/WHR WILL FURTHER PROVIDE RESOURCES TO ITS YOUTH NETWORKS TO ENSURE GREATER COORDINATION AND COLLABORATION. Comprehensive sexuality education is priority objective three: Enable young people to access comprehensive sexuality education and realize their sexual rights. Data show that demand for sexual and reproductive health services and information among young people - the largest generation of young people ever - is already outstripping supply. IPPF/WHR knows that young people who are able to exercise their sexual rights, including by accessing services, have the potential to be agents of change by challenging prejudices and social norms, contributing to public health and development. IPPF/WHR will transition from a youth-friendly to a youth-centered organization by prioritizing and scaling up comprehensive sexuality education, which seeks to equip young people with skills, knowledge, and values to determine and enjoy their sexuality and protect their health; and focusing on interventions for the most marginalized youth, in and out of school. Media and public opinion is priority objective four: Engage champions, opinion formers, and the media to promote health, choice, and rights. The impetus for major change in favor of sexual and reproductive health and rights often stems from changes in public attitudes and opinions. Mechanisms such as public campaigns are instrumental for raising awareness, promoting understanding, AND MOBILIZING PUBLIC SUPPORT. IPPF/WHR WILL implement public campaigns to raise awareness of sexual and reproductive health and rights issues and generate support, with integrated communications strategies and the involvement of public-facing champions, opinion formers, and media outlets. IPPF/WHR will develop adaptable content, featuring personal testimonies, and deliver it through a variety of formats, including traditional and social media. This work will be embedded as a core part of what IPPF/WHR does. Deliver services directly is priority objective five: Deliver rights-based services, including safe and legal abortion and HIV services. Millions of women, men, and young people around the world still lack access to high-quality, rights-based sexual and reproductive health services, including safe and legal abortion and HIV services. Poor quality of care contributes to low utilization of services, which exacerbates poor health and mortality related to sex, reproduction, HIV, and reproductive cancers. People in humanitarian settings also face serious barriers to services. IPPF/WHR will ensure that all its service outlets provide high-quality services: they must not only provide a minimum, integrated package, but must also be client-centered, rights-based, youth friendly, and gender sensitive. Enable services is priority objective six: Enable services through public and private health providers. With an increasing number of health providers offering sexual and reproductive health services, IPPF/WHR Member Associations have a distinct role in providing technical assistance. IPPF/WHR can ensure that services are responsive to the local community, are client-centered, and provide rights-based, supportive care to all. IPPF/WHR will develop new formal partnerships with public and private providers. IPPF/WHR will deliver pre- and in-service training for medical personnel and integrated sexual and reproductive health services in partner facilities, and strengthen supply chain management and quality of care. Institutional development is priority objective seven: Enhance operational effectiveness and double national and global income. IPPF/WHR is committed and has an ethical obligation to make the most of its resources and to be flexible and responsive to changing political and economic contexts. To maximize the number of people IPPF/WHR can serve, it needs to increase its operational effectiveness. IPPF/WHR remain relevant, responsible, and efficient in how it seeks funding, translates it into development outcomes, and sustains services to meet demand. IPPF/WHR is evolving its operations and financial structures to incorporate diverse business models that are fit for purpose in each of the specific contexts IPPF/WHR works. IPPF/WHR will ensure ongoing funding for its services by supporting Member Associations to develop social enterprises; recruiting and retaining staff and volunteers that bring business planning, market analysis, communications, and performance management skills; and strengthening financial and performance management at all levels. Volunteers and supporters is priority objective eight: Grow IPPF/WHRs volunteer and activist supporter base. IPPF/WHRs work is demanded and delivered by communities: This groundswell of grassroots support gives legitimacy and is the foundation of IPPF/WHRs political advocacy. Opposition groups, a vocal minority in many places, threaten the gains that the sexual and reproductive health and rights movement has achieved, and there is now a need to grow and lead the volunteer and activist supporter base for sexual and reproductive health and rights at local levels to present a clear, alternative voice to groups that do not support sexual and reproductive rights. |
| OTHER PROGRAM SERVICES |
FORM 990, PART III, LINE 4D OTHER PROGRAM SERVICE EXPENSES OF $7,048,399 INCLUDING GRANTS OF $3,676,292, ARE ATTRIBUTABLE TO THE FOLLOWING PROGRAMS: $2,573,706 ADVOCACY $2,101,185 ENABLE SERVICES $1,119,015 MEDIA AND PUBLIC OPINION $865,409 VOLUNTEERS AND SUPPORTERS $387,356 ENGAGE LEADERS $1,728 OTHER |
| MEMBERS |
FORM 990, PART VI, LINE 6 AND 7A IPPF/WHR IS AN INDEPENDENT LEGAL ENTITY AND FUNCTIONS AS A REGIONAL PARTNER OF INTERNATIONAL PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION, A NON-PROFIT CHARITABLE ORGANIZATION HEADQUARTERED IN LONDON, ENGLAND (IPPF/LONDON). IPPF/WHR SUPPORTS AND COORDINATES SEXUAL AND REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH, INCLUDING FAMILY PLANNING, ACTIVITIES CARRIED OUT BY 39 AUTONOMOUS NATIONAL MEMBER ASSOCIATIONS (MAS) IN THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE AND A NUMBER OF OTHER NONPROFIT ORGANIZATIONS, AND ALSO PROVIDES FINANCIAL AND TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE AND ADVISORY SERVICES TO THESE ORGANIZATIONS. THE MAS SEND DELEGATES TO THE REGIONAL COUNCIL MEETING EVERY 18 MONTHS. EVERY THREE YEARS, THEY ELECT THE IPPF/WHR REGIONAL BOARD OF DIRECTORS. DECISIONS MADE BY THE BOARD ARE NOT SUBJECT TO APPROVAL BY INDIVIDUAL MAS. |
| FORM 990 REVIEW PROCESS |
FORM 990, PART VI, LINE 11B THE ORGANIZATION'S FORM 990 IS INITIALLY PREPARED BY AN INDEPENDENT ACCOUNTING FIRM BASED ON INFORMATION PROVIDED BY THE ORGANIZATION'S FINANCE DEPARTMENT IN CONSULTATION WITH THE ORGANIZATION'S STAFF. THE FINANCE DEPARTMENT AND THE ORGANIZATION'S REGIONAL DIRECTOR AND CEO THEN REVIEW AND APPROVE THE DRAFT RETURN. THE DRAFT RETURN IS THEN PROVIDED TO THE ENTIRE BOARD PRIOR TO FILING WITH THE INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE ("IRS"). |
| CONFLICT OF INTEREST POLICY |
FORM 990, PART VI, LINE 12C THE ORGANIZATION HAS A CONFLICT OF INTEREST POLICY IN PLACE. DIRECTORS ARE REQUIRED TO CONFIRM THEIR COMPLIANCE PERIODICALLY. ALL NEW EMPLOYEES ARE REQUIRED TO SUBMIT A CONFLICT OF INTEREST QUESTIONNAIRE, AT THE TIME OF HIRING, TO HUMAN RESOURCES DISCLOSING ANY OUTSIDE AFFILIATIONS. IN ADDITION, DIRECTORS AND EMPLOYEES ARE REQUIRED TO DISCLOSE TO HUMAN RESOURCES ANY OUTSIDE AFFILIATIONS OR POTENTIAL CONFLICTS OF INTEREST AS THEY ARISE THROUGHOUT THE YEAR. HUMAN RESOURCES AND THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS REVIEWS THE OUTSIDE AFFILIATIONS TO DETERMINE IF THERE ARE ANY POTENTIAL CONFLICTS OF INTEREST OR VIOLATIONS OF THE CONFLICT OF INTEREST POLICY. IF SO, APPROPRIATE ACTION IS TAKEN TO RESOLVE ANY SUCH CONFLICTS OR VIOLATIONS, INCLUDING CAUSING A DIRECTOR TO RECUSE HIMSELF OR HERSELF FROM DISCUSSION AND VOTING ON THE ISSUE, AND CAUSING AN EMPLOYEE TO TERMINATE HIS/HER OUTSIDE AFFILIATION OR TAKING APPROPRIATE DISCIPLINARY ACTION. |
| COMPENSATION REVIEW PROCESS |
FORM 990, PART VI, LINES 15A AND 15B THE INDEPENDENT BOARD OF DIRECTORS REVIEWS AND APPROVES THE COMPENSATION OF THE TOP MANAGEMENT OFFICIAL - THE REGIONAL DIRECTOR. THE ORGANIZATION HAS A CONFLICT OF INTEREST POLICY IN PLACE, AND NO DIRECTOR WHO HAS A CONFLICT OF INTEREST IS PERMITTED TO PARTICIPATE IN THE DISCUSSION OR VOTE ON THE REGIONAL DIRECTOR'S COMPENSATION. THE COMPENSATION DETERMINATION IS DOCUMENTED CONTEMPORANEOUSLY IN THE ORGANIZATION'S RECORDS. FURTHER, THE CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER'S 2017 ANNUAL COMPENSATION INCREASE AND BONUS WERE APPROVED BY THE FINANCE COMMITTEE OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS. COMPENSATION FOR ALL OTHER EMPLOYEES IS SET BY THE REGIONAL DIRECTOR WITH THE ASSISTANCE OF THE HUMAN RESOURCES DEPARTMENT. VARIOUS SOURCES OF COMPARABILITY DATA ARE TAKEN INTO ACCOUNT IN DETERMINING COMPENSATION, TO ENSURE THAT EMPLOYEES ARE GENERALLY PAID WITHIN THE RANGE OF THE GOING MARKET RATE FOR COMPARABLE POSITIONS AT SIMILARLY SITUATED ORGANIZATIONS. |
| AVAILABILITY OF DOCUMENTS TO THE PUBLIC |
Form 990, Part VI, Lines 18 and 19 IPPF/WHR's Audited Financial Statements and 990 Tax Returns are made available to the public through our website www.ippfwhr.org and upon request by calling 212-248-6400. THE ORGANIZATION DOES NOT MAKE ITS GOVERNING DOCUMENTS OR CONFLICT OF INTEREST POLICY AVAILABLE TO THE PUBLIC. |
| RECONCILIATION OF NET ASSETS |
FORM 990, PART XI, LINE 9 CHANGE IN INTEREST IN THE NET ASSETS OF THE IPPF WHR FUND: $ 1,683,675 CHANGE IN VALUE OF CHARITABLE GIFT ANNUITIES: $ (109,626) GAIN ON FOREIGN CURRENCY TRANSLATION: $ 15,380 ----------- TOTAL LINE 9: $ 1,589,429 |
Attach to Form 990 or 990-EZ.