The Johns Hopkins Center for Communication Programs will have a strong presence at the 2025 International Conference on Family Planning (ICFP), which begins on Monday, Nov. 3, in Bogotá, Colombia.
Come visit CCP at Booth 26, on the first floor of the Ágora Bogotá Convention Center. There, CCP leaders are ready to answer questions about our work today and our plans for the future. Stop by and sign up for updates from the 2026 International Social and Behavior Change Communication Summit, co-organized by CCP, to enter a raffle to win a free registration to the June 22-26 event.
ICFP brings together researchers, governments, advocates, health equity champions, and local communities to celebrate family planning progress and make new commitments. For the first time since its inception in 2009, the conference will feature a social norms and behavior change track.
“The International Conference on Family Planning is the largest gathering of its kind, bringing together every corner of the family planning universe,” says CCP’s Executive Director Debora Freitas López. “At a time when collaboration and innovation are more essential than ever, CCP is proud to stand with our peers to advance equitable, evidence-driven solutions in family planning and reproductive health.”
This year, CCP is co-sponsoring the ICFP Youth Lounge, a place where youth delegates can meet, collaborate, innovate, and recharge. CCP supports the lifting of young voices in the family planning and reproductive health space.
Among CCP’s highlights: Tara Sullivan and Sara Mazursky, who head CCP’s knowledge management work, will be leading a spotlight session, “From Missteps to Momentum: What FP Program ‘Failures’ Teach Us,” at 2:45 p.m. on Tuesday, Nov. 4 in Ágora Room Z. Speakers will candidly reflect on their own missteps and the powerful growth that followed.
“Our goal is to support a culture of informal sharing among organizations and normalize improving through our failures so we can be better equipped to replicate and adapt lessons learned in family planning and reproductive health,” Mazursky says.
On Tuesday, Nov. 4 and Wednesday, Nov. 5, from 12:30 p.m. to 1:30 p.m., the CCP booth will host “Meet the Editors: Supporting the Global Health: Science and Practice Journal,” two opportunities to ask questions about Global Health Science and Practice (GHSP), which is led by CCP.
Members of the journal’s editorial staff – Madeleine Short Fabic, Susan Ontiri and Elaine Menotti – will be on hand to discuss the future of the open-access journal and its impact.
CCP’s contingent at ICFP will also include a team from Nigeria who work on The Challenge Initiative, which CCP leads in that country. TCI is dedicated to finding sustainable ways to fund family planning, beyond the usual donor model.
Mark your calendar:
Tuesday, Nov. 4:
CCP’s Adewale Adefila will present Impact of Climate change on Family Planning Decision making: A Nigerian case study in Ágora Room O, 10:20 a.m. Bogotá time.
CCP’s Oluwasegun Akinola will present the poster Closing Data Gaps in Postpartum Family Planning: Strengthening FP Documentation Through Nigeria’s PPFP Data Extraction Tool, from noon to 1:30 p.m. Bogotá time in the Ágora Main Lobby-First Floor.
Akinola, on behalf of CCP’s Cynthia Adeseiye, will also present the poster Male involvement in Transforming Family Planning Social Norms: A case study of The Challenge Initiative Social Mobilization Strategy in Jigawa State, Nigeria from 2 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. Bogotá time in the Ágora Main Lobby-First Floor.
Wednesday, Nov. 5:
CCP’s Uttara Bharath Kumar, on behalf of CCP’s Carmen Cronin, will present the poster Beyond Reach: What Monitoring Data Reveal about Family Planning Uptake in Breakthrough ACTION Guatemala’s Project Communities, from 10 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. Bogotá time in the Ágora Main Lobby-First Floor.
CCP’s Oluwasegun Akinola will present the poster Shifting the SBC Paradigm: Institutionalizing Government-Led Demand Generation for Family Planning in Nigeria with a 72% Referral Completion Rate, from 2 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. Bogotá time in the Ágora Main Lobby-First Floor.
At the same time, CCP’s Deborah Tony Khah will present the poster Community-Based Strategies to Overcome Barriers to Family Planning Access Among Women in Adamawa State, Nigeria.
From 4 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. Bogotá time, CCP’s Mazursky and Aissatou Thioye, who worked on the CCP-led Knowledge SUCCESS project, will present the poster Integration of Knowledge Management into Family Planning Costed Implementation Plans (CIPs) and Development of KM CIP Checklist Tool, in the Ágora Main Lobby-First Floor. This work was completed with CCP’s Ruwaida Salem.
Also at 4:20 p.m., CCP’s Olukunle Omotoso will present From Donor Dependency to Domestic Drive: Subnational Family Planning Financing Reform in Nigeria (2018–2024), in Ágora Room J.
In Ágora Room I, at the same time, CCP’s Uttara Bharath Kumar will present Human-Centered Design Used Across Four Countries to Address Behavioral Barriers to Safer Obstetric and Reproductive Health Outcomes.
Thursday, Nov. 6
CCP’s Taiwo Johnson, who leads the TCI project in Nigeria, will present Shifting Faith, Shaping Futures: Scaling Interfaith Advocacy to Transform Family Planning Norms and Policies in a spotlight session at 10:20 a.m. Bogotá time in Ágora Room VW.
For more information on the ICFP program, click here.
