We’re attending the International Conference on Family Planning (ICFP) in Colombia, from 3-6 November 2025.

Sexual and reproductive health is a fundamental human right that everyone is entitled to. But for millions of people with disabilities, these rights are routinely ignored or denied.

At the conference, we’re calling on donors, governments and non-government organisations to work with us to tackle the barriers that people with disabilities face in accessing sexual and reproductive health services.

Together with our partners from the disability movement, we’ll share tried-and-tested approaches to delivering rights-based, locally owned, and scalable solutions to inclusive sexual and reproductive health – from co-creating projects with women with disabilities, challenging harmful stigma and strengthening health systems.

Sightsavers will present six sessions at the conference. More information about the event can be found on the ICFP website.

Tuesday 4 November

Disability, gender, and reproductive autonomy

“The decision is mine”: promoting inclusion, autonomy, and free and informed reproductive choices for women with disabilities in Nigeria.

Time: 10:20-11:40am
Place: TBC

Maryam Aminu from our Nigeria country office team will join Amina Nasiru from the Joint National Association of Persons with Disability (JONAPWD) to explain why meaningfully engaging women with disabilities in co-creating activities and influencing decisionmakers is essential – both for addressing the barriers that prevent them from making free and informed choices about their sexual and reproductive health and promoting longer-term systemic change.

Scaling what works: navigating real-world implementation challenges in family planning

Time: 11:55am-13:15pm
Place: Ágora IBP programme implementation room

Jennifer Williams, Sightsavers’ sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) lead, will join an IBP Track Programme Implementation Subcommittee session to identify common barriers to scaling sexual and reproductive health and rights programmes in diverse contexts and share practical strategies to overcome them.

Disability inclusion and sexual and reproductive health – the fight against exclusion and discrimination

Time: 2:45-4:05pm
Place: Ágora IBP programme implementation room

As part of this session, Amalie Quevedo, Sightsavers’ technical adviser for inclusive SRHR, will share practical tools for health workers on seeking informed consent and safeguarding people with disabilities, drawing on Sightsavers’ technical assistance in the UK Government’s flagship Women’s Integrated Sexual Health (WISH) programme in West and Central Africa.

Wednesday 5 November

Access denied is not an option: fixing the disability gap in sexual and reproductive health and rights

Co-hosted with MSI Reproductive Choices, Women Enabled and others.

Time: 7-8:30am
Place: Room D, Floor 2

An interactive roundtable discussion around challenges and opportunities for disability inclusion in SRHR. Join us to discuss your experiences of ensuring SRHR programmes, services and policies are disability inclusive, share challenges and brainstorm ideas for stronger collaboration between gender and SRHR organisations and movements.

Thursday 6 November

Breaking barriers, building access: inclusive social behaviour change (SBC) in action

Inclusive SBC: delivering a digital campaign as part of a disability-inclusive SBC approach in Kaduna, Nigeria.

Time: 11:55am-1:15pm
Place: TBC

Maryam Aminu from our Nigeria country office will join Amina Nasiru to share learning from our innovative, UK aid-funded project in Nigeria, where an SBC strategy co-created with women-led organisations of people with disabilities has used peer-to-peer workshops, radio discussions and online micro and nano influencers to shift social norms, reduce stigma, and increase knowledge around inclusive family planning and the free and informed use of modern contraceptives.