Join leaders from across the world in their call for greater investment in reproductive health.

The evidence is clear.

Investments in reproductive health pay enormous dividends for economic development, improve family and child health, protect the environment, increase security and advance women's rights.

• When women and men have access to voluntary family planning, poverty rates go down, education rates go up and greater prosperity for families and their communities follow.
• When the more than 200 million women who want access to modern contraception have it, there are fewer unintended pregnancies, and maternal and infant deaths decrease.
• In the end, a nation's health — its families, its communities and its economy — is directly linked to the health and status of its women. And, it is one of the best ways to protect women's rights.

The Council members have issued “A Call for Resolve,” which calls on other leaders to join them in a worldwide resolve to increase reproductive health investments for important development results.