The 130th Annual Meeting of APHA

Abstract #52047

Sono Aibe, The David and Lucile Packard Foundation, 300 Second Street, Suite 200, Los Altos, CA 94022, 650-917-7102, s.aibe@packfound.org

The David and Lucile Packard Foundation awarded $123 million in population grants in 2000 and another $96 million in 2001. The size of its grant support for international population activities is larger than that of many bilateral donors. With a focus in eight countries and a strategy that calls for funding policy and program initiatives that other donors, including bilateral and multilateral donors, do not and cannot fund, the Packard Foundation plays a unique and highly complementary role to that of the principal population donors. This paper will discuss how the Foundation’s population program decides its funding, including country priorities, and the impact it believes its population assistance is having.

Learning Objectives:

• Members of the audience will learn how one of the largest private population donors defines its population programming priorities and how it decides where it will allocate its resources.

Keywords: International Family Planning, Population

Presenting author's disclosure statement:
I do not have any significant financial interest/arrangement or affiliation with any organization/institution whose products or services are being discussed in this session.