Irish Family Planning Association

The IFPA (Irish Family Planning Association) is a national voluntary organisation and registered charity which has been pioneering reproductive health and rights in Ireland since 1969.

The brave women and men who founded the Association were concerned with changing the social and legal environment in Ireland so that family planning information and services would be available to everyone. Currently, the IFPA is a member of the IPPF (International Planned Parenthood Federation) and operates under their Charter of Rights .
In 1969 major concerns for the IFPA founders were the appalling health and social circumstances in which many families in Ireland lived, and in particular, the health consequences for mothers and their children of repeated pregnancies. As you move through the IFPA web site you will see that these issues are still of concern to the IFPA today in relation to mothers in developing countries and countries in transition.
This concern reflects the broadening and deepening of the aims and objectives of the Association. We are now deeply committed to promoting and protecting the individual basic human rights of everybody in relation to reproductive and sexual health, relationships and sexuality.
The IFPA continues to be an important advocate of reproductive rights both within Ireland and worldwide. We regularly make submissions to government and we are a source of expert knowledge in the areas of reproductive and sexual health. We do all this as well as providing the best possible reproductive health care in our centres to women and men, and of course non-directive counselling for women with crisis pregnancies.
The IFPA is concerned about the lack of access people in many parts of the world have to family planning. The IFPA is committed to raising awareness among politicians and the public about the great need for worldwide sexual and reproductive health services. The Association is involved in several international campaigns to meet this end.