Women’s Integrated Sexual Health (WISH 2)

Under the WISH 2 project, the Johns Hopkins Center for Communication Programs is joining efforts with the International Planned Parenthood Foundation (IPPF) to offer quality integrated and inclusive sexual and reproductive health services to marginalized and hard-to-reach populations in seven countries.

The WISH 2 project will find new ways to overcome the many hurdles that exist in places where gender norms present a critical barrier to sexual and reproductive health demand and service uptake and is expected to support at least 10.4 million family planning users and avert 15,100 maternal deaths.

CCP will lead work in Ethiopia, Somalia, Burundi, Sudan, South Sudan, Madagascar, and Zambia to address harmful social and gender norms that keep women, adolescents, those living under economic stress and displacement, and people living with a disability, from meeting their reproductive health goals. Using social and behavior change approaches developed through a human-centered design approach, stakeholders will directly participate in the creation of solutions.

CCP’s work will look broadly at family planning, from modern contraception to post-abortion care. CCP will also explore couple dynamics, couple decision making and norms around fertility, among other topics.

WISH 2 is part of the FCDO WISH Dividend, and it builds on the successes of FCDO’s more than USD $300 million Women’s Integrated Sexual Health program, which spanned 27 countries across Africa and Asia between 2018 and 2024.