The Joining Forces: Family Planning Global Assembly, held as a side event within the XXIV FIGO World Congress of Gynecology and Obstetrics on 10 October 2023, brought together leading experts and organisations in women’s health from across the globe. This event was organised under the aegis of FIGO's Committee on Contraception, with support from Bayer, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Family Planning 2030, Jhpiego, USAID, and the Momentum Safe Surgery in Family Planning and Obstetrics Project.