Access to contraception and high quality reproductive health care is denied to many women in Eastern Europe and Central Asia, leading to increased morbidity and mortality due to unsafe abortion.

In 2008, IPPF EN was awarded a grant for a 5-year project that aims to make high quality abortion services safe, legal and accessible in selected countries in Central and Eastern Europe, Central Asia and the Balkans.

The project which falls within IPPF’s Global Comprehensive Abortion Care Initiative (GCACP) to be implemented in six IPPF regions including Europe, will provide technical support and capacity building to Member Associations in Albania, Armenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Kyrgyzstan to deliver high quality abortion-related services.

The project includes a strong monitoring and evaluation component that will develop the capacity of the participating Member Associations to assess their own performance. One of the core elements of the monitoring and evaluation component will be the introduction of a state-of-the-art Clinical Management Information System that will be used throughout IPPF. This is a tool for clinical management that handles together client data, income data and services and product data. It will be used for record keeping and client management as well as for statistical reporting on the delivery of abortion-related and other Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights services.

In the first year of the GCACP project, activities rotated around strengthening the capacity of IPPF EN’s Regional Office to support the quality and sustainability of the project.