In 2025 funding for development programs and projects has rapidly gone down by more than 26%. Largely, this is due to drastic cuts from the biggest donor countries, such as the USA, Germany, the UK, Japan and France in times of domestic political shifts. These cuts have severely widened the already existent gap of unmet SRHR needs in low-income countries, and will result in more preventable maternal deaths, unplanned pregnancies and harmful practices.

Policymakers must:

• Strengthen predictability through multi-year SRHR financing and continuous commodity supply chains.
• Protect grant financing as well as maintain and expand grant-based ODA for core SRHR in LICs and fragile states.
• Align ODA with domestic transitions and invest in tax capacity, debt sustainability, public financial management in developing countries.
• Use innovative finance selectively as loans and innovative finance cannot substitute where no revenue stream exists.
• Improve humanitarian–development coherence. Emergency and development financing must be coordinated, not siloed.
• Report on outcomes, not budgets as accountability must flow toward populations served, not toward donor disbursements. 

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