one of them, and it will certainly cost a lot of money. But the report shows that this investment would save billions of dollars each year. Many countries have been increasing investments in this area, but there's still an enormous funding gap, both from what local governments pay themselves and what the international community provides in support. There's a growing recognition in the international community that support for family planning programs has lagged. There's been a good consensus on how it important family planning and reproductive health are to development process, but the funding hasn't kept up with the needs. Last July, there was an important summit meeting hosted by the UK and the Gates Foundation, where donor countries started to turn that around by pledging an additional two-and-a-half-billion dollars to make family planning available to 120-million additional women by 2020. Australia was part of that conference in London and made a commitment to double its contributions to family planning by the year 2016. LAM: Your report states that about 220-million women around the world lack access to family planning services. How does the Asia Pacific region score on this front? RYAN: Sixty per cent of those 222-million women who don't have access to family planning are living in the Asia Pacific region. The percentage of women who have an unmet need for family planning in the region is somewhat lower than the global average, but only if you count China. Excluding China, you find that more than 20 per