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IT MATTERS TO
EVERYONE
INVEST IN FAMILY PLANNING
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ICPD SHAPING FAMILY PLANNING POLICIES
BASED ON RIGHTS, DIGNITY AND HEALTH
ICPD Commitments - 1994
Provide universal access to
family planning and sexual and
reproductive health services
and reproductive rights.
Deliver gender equality,
empowerment of women
and equal access to
education for girls.
Address the individual,
social and economic
impact of urbanization
and migration.
Support sustainable
development and address
environmental issues
associated with population
changes.
ICPD Impact on Policies in India
National Population
Policy, 2000- rights
based approach and a
target free approach.
National Health Mission -
for improved health care
delivery in urban and
rural areas.
Reproductive and Child
Health Programme
(phase 1 & 2) 1997, 2005 -
multiple stakeholders;
lifecycle approach;
quality of care;
informed choice.
National Health Policy (2002) -
equitable access to healthcare;
funding for women’s health.
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STRENGTHENING FAMILY PLANNING ESSENTIAL TO
ACHIEVE LARGER DEVELOPMENT GOALS
Family planning is a critical element of
social, human, economic and environmental
development.
Linkages
Access to family planning- supports women's social
and economic well-being; enables them to choose
the number and spacing of their children.
Better birth spacing - reduces the incidence of low
birth weight and poor maternal nutrition. Family
planning results in more wealth and less hunger.
Delay Childbearing - Women who are able to delay
childbearing are more likely to meet their educational
goals, obtain productive employment, increase
household income, and thus help reduce extreme poverty.
Using family planning empowers women -
When women are empowered and are
decision-makers in their families, they spend
more resources on their children's nutrition,
healthcare and education.
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STRENGTHENING FAMILY PLANNING ESSENTIAL TO
ACHIEVE LARGER DEVELOPMENT GOALS
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Birth spacing through family planning -
Reduces child mortality. Children born three to
ve years apart are 2.5 times more likely to
survive than children born two years apart.
Family planning saves lives -
Family planning allows spacing of pregnancies
and avoids unwanted pregnancies. It can delay
pregnancies in young women at increased risk of
health problems and death from early childbearing.
Family planning and reproductive health services -
are essential to preventing the spread of HIV/AIDS.
Improving access to condoms can reduce the
number of infections acquired through sexual
intercourse.
Increasing contraception use among
HIV-positive women through voluntary family
planning services can avert almost 30%
more cases of mother-to-child-transmission
than anti-retrovirals alone.
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THE PATH AHEAD
POST 2015
Priorities
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Expanding contraceptive
choices for delaying and
spacing births
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Quality of care
in reproductive
health services
Focus Areas
FAMILY PLANNING - Currently
unmet need for family planning
in India is 13%; unmet need for
spacing methods is highest (25%)
among the youngest age group
(15-19 years)*.
QUALITY OF CARE -
Emphasis on
informed choice
and counselling.
ADOLESCENT HEALTH - Delaying age at marriage and age at rst
pregnancy are critical in India - 46% of all women are married
before the legal age of marriage, one in six women aged 15-19
have begun childbearing and 50% of maternal deaths among
girls in the same age group are due to unsafe abortions.
STUDIES show that a large number of risk factors for
poor reproductive and child health are rooted in adolescence
and yet only 15% of youth receive any education on sex or
family planning.
COMMUNITY
INVOLVEMENT
to be strengthened
for accountability of
services.
*Source - NFHS-3 2005-06
Promoting a MULTI STAKEHOLDER
INVOLVEMENT and better
interaction between
Central and State Govt.
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EVIDENCE ON CONTRACEPTIVE METHOD MIX IN
DEVELOPING COUNTRIES: SOUTH/SOUTH-EAST ASIA
The addition of 1 method available to at least half the population correlates with
an increase of 4-8 percentage points in total use of the 6 modern methods,
for example, from 40% to 44% or 48%.1
Modern Contraceptive
Prevalence Rate (mCPR)
50.6
23.5
34.1
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25.1
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18.5
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12.7 5
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5.1 3 Number of Modern
Methods available in
Method Mix
WHY METHOD MIX MATTERS
International data over 27 years shows that as each
additional contraceptive method became available to
most of the population, overall modern contraceptive
use rose. In 2009 only 3.5 methods, on average, were
available to at least half the population in surveyed
countries.
1 Source: ‘Use of modern contraception increases when more methods
become available: analysis of evidence from 1982-2009’, John Ross and
John Stover, 2013
52.4
21.6
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40.8%
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10.6
mCPR
BANGLADESH
9.6
2.3
2.7 3
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35.7
METHOD MIX SCENARIO
44.2
0.2 5.7
10.9
11.5
50%
8.4
mCPR
BHUTAN
19.3
74.4
9.6
35.5%
9.9
mCPR
NEPAL
18 3.7
7.5
Source: ‘FP2020 Partnership
in Progress 2013-2014’
11.4
38.7%
mCPR
INDIA
44.7%
mCPR
INDONESIA
0.6
28.5
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15
10.4
0.2
52.5%
mCPR
SRI LANKA
32.1
1.3
2.3
*All country method
0.6
gures in %
LAM
Condom
Pill
Injectable Implant
IUD
Female
Male Other Modern
Sterilisation Sterilisation Methods
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INVESTING IN
YOUTH
THE YOUTH DIVIDEND
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ADOLESCENT AND YOUTH
POPULATION - INDIA
PERCENTAGE OF POPULATION
AGE GROUP
19.2%
20.9%
59.9%
Adolescent
(10-19)
Youth Other
(15-24)
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350
300
253.2
250
231.9
200
150
100
50
0
Adolescent
Youth
(10-19)
(15-24)
364.6
Other
In India, as per Census 2011 ADOLESCENT
population (10-19) is 253.2 MILLION and
that of the YOUTH (15-24) is 231.9 MILLION
constituting 20.9% and 19.2% of the total
population respectively.
There has been a decline in the
proportion of adolescent population
and an increase of youth population
compared to Census 2001.
*Source - Census 2011
Adolescent
Youth
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YOUTHFAMILY PLANNING
& UNMET NEED
Addressing their needs will require
Trained family planning
Counsellors
Statutes on Privacy and
Con dentiality
Emphasis on Youth-Friendly
Contraceptive Services
for Informed Choice
Comprehensive Sexuality Education which is
grounded in human rights and gender equality
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