Margarita is a Chilean Midwife, graduated from the University of Chile in 1972. Sex educator, Masters and PHD in Education from the University of Campinas (UNICAMP) – Brazil. Maggie worked for more than 20 years in assistance and research in family planning at UNICAMP and at the research center CEMICAMP. In 1999, she founded Reprolatina, an NGO that conducts research, capacity building and advocacy for sexual and reproductive rights and gender equality in Latin America with a special focus on adolescents. She also developed a participatory educational methodology to build capacity to improve access and quality of care in sexual and reproductive health and to implement comprehensive sex education in schools. Reprolatina has acted as a WHO collaborator to implement the WHO Strategic Approach to improve family planning policies and programs and with ExpandNet in developing and implementing the scaling up framework and approach. Since 2010, the Reprolatina team has been collaborating as an implementing partner of UNFPA-LACRO to improve sexual and reproductive health in several Latin American and Caribbean countries and with UNFPA Honduras to improve adolescents’ sexual and reproductive health. The last three years Reprolatina collaborated with UNFPA-LACRO and with UNFPA Brazil in the implementation and scaling up a regional strategy to improve access and increase prevalence of long-acting contraceptive methods, especially among adolescents in Latin America and the Caribbean.