We envision a future in which everyone has reproductive autonomy, which is the power to decide and control contraceptive use, pregnancy, and childbearing.
Vision & Mission
An organization’s vision, mission, and principles act as the North Star that guides all organizational activities from strategy to execution. MCI has developed a compelling vision system that accurately reflects our work and inspires people to learn more and get involved.
Male Contraceptive Initiative (MCI) empowers men, individuals who produce sperm, and couples to actively participate in family planning. We provide the resources they need to achieve reproductive autonomy by supporting the development of non-hormonal, reversible male contraceptives.
This guides us as we evaluate opportunities for funding and advocacy support for the development of new methods of non-hormonal, reversible male birth control.
Learn more about our vision, mission, principles, and activities on this page, or you can read this publication and this blog post for more information.
Vision
“Reproductive Autonomy for All”
The foundation for MCI’s vision is the hopeful reality we work to achieve: a world where everyone has the resources necessary for reproductive freedom.
Without contraceptive methods for everyone, we will not be able to achieve reproductive autonomy for anyone!
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Mission
The mission statement ultimately answers the “why” and “how” of the vision. Male Contraceptive Initiative’s mission statement answers both the “why” (i.e., to empower men and couples to achieve the reproductive autonomy they currently lack) and the “how” (i.e., by providing resources that currently do not exist).
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Principles
Defining an organization’s guiding principles is critical to ensure continued alignment from vision to mission, through to activities. These principles are essentially benchmarks for an organization to evaluate activities and ensure they are as “vision-aligned” as possible.
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Activities
Defining core principles allows for strategic objectives and daily activities to be aligned with the organization’s mission in order to achieve its vision. Mapping our activities to our core principles affords MCI a cohesive baseline for evaluating opportunities, addressing challenges, and moving forward in a more vision-aligned manner.
The vision, mission, principles, and activities define our organizational ethos system and present a clear articulation of the “why” and “how” of Male Contraceptive Initiative. This has organically developed benchmarks with which to evaluate research and advocacy opportunities as this represents the ideal world we are working to realize, along with the mechanisms through which we will create the change we wish to see in the world.
Read this publication and blog post for more information.