“The case for more investment in family planning and reproductive health, alongside a much greater effort to educate women and girls (as well as men), has a long history. But at a global policy level It was set out most clearly – and agreed with detailed funding pledges – at the 1994 Cairo Conference on Population and Development. Only to be largely forgotten in the years that followed.”

People & the Planet editor John Rowley looks back on the last 20 years of way too little progress on the family planning front in this excellent commentary.