The project "Strengthening Transition Planning and Advocacy at UNFPA" received a grant of $1.5 millionfrom the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation for a number of reform activities to improve UNFPA’s strategic intervention in 18 target countries withhigh unmet need for family planning. The grant was complimentary to ongoing work on unmet need for family planning, and supported the UNFPA Executive Director and his leadership team in strengthening and scaling up work conducted in this area.