The Share-Net International Consolidated Annual Report 2020 to 2024 has been published.

The report offers and overview of the key activities and achievements of Share-Net International and the hubs between 2020 and 2024. It features four chapters with deep-dives into our Organisational Growth which includes the the growth of the network, our work on Partnerships, the Regional approach by some hubs, Operational Frameworks and Strategic Developments and our Digital Presence. The second chapter includes the impact of the platform between 2020 and 20204. And finally, the third chapter presents the challenges and lessons learned. 

The full report can be read here.

Here is the message on behalf of the Share-Net International secretariat.

This report can be referred to as a “storyful” place. It captures 5 years of growth and exchange to advance Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR). But the story goes back many more years. In 2024 we celebrated the 10th birthday of Share-Net International.
Share-Net International became my baby in 2020. But today many people will say Share-Net is their baby.
Well… it takes a village to raise a child, doesn’t it? And to be honest, when I became the coordinator, Share-Net was not a baby anymore. There was a long history of Share-Net Netherlands established in 2001. Hubs in Bangladesh, Jordan and Burundi. I was handed a very well-fed child, adolescent, and young adult. With a
suitcase full of experience and knowledge management tools and clear direction. About to spread our wings to three more country hubs (Colombia, Burkina-Faso and Ethiopia). As real Gen Z’s, with a little push by Corona, we started to get into digital.
Today, we are very proud of all we have been able to build. With The Ministry of Foreign Affairs, our partners, our country secretariats, but mostly our 3500+ members! We are even more proud with all the work we have done to bring research, policy, and practice together. Proud with our results! Even though this report is full of results, it remains a little difficult to talk about results. Let me tell you why.

Firstly, because we do not like to brag. Also, because I think honesty lasts the longest. It is just extremely hard to claim results when it comes to changes in policy and practice on SRHR. And this has little to do with WHAT we do. But with HOW we do things TOGETHER. I mean how can you claim things that are done by so many
people? There is also something about the way we have been monitoring; focusing on outcomes, sometimes forgetting the process? But mostly because we do not live in a vacuum. The SRHR context is quite a special context. Highly political, sensitive, with many influences and forces. Extremely difficult to understand let alone
control. And those influences and forces come in waves. And yes, we are in very troublesome water at the moment.
Yet with his report and the results presented we can be proud. Very proud of what we have been able to build in the past years. The successes that we have documented and /or witnessed as members. And I believe there is so much more that we were not able to capture. I hope that whatever the future brings, Share-Net International members hold on to and build on their own Share-Net International and SRHR successes. Because it is what we have built together and our shared successes that drive us and make us thrive.

Let’s, one way or the other, keep sharing, for SRHR!

Dorine Thomissen, Share-Net International Co-Coordinator
on behalf of the SNI Secretariat