Module 9: Population Policy and Family Planning Programmes
  Lecture 32: Family Planning Programme and Beyond Family Planning Measures to Control Fertility
 

 

TABLE 9.1: FAMILY PLANNING AND BEYOND FAMILY PLANNING MEASURES TO REDUCE FERTILITY

Family planning measures

Beyond family planning measures

  1. A clear policy and direction to different departments to promote contraceptive practices – targets, strategies, etc.
  1. Improving literacy and secondary school enrolment rates among girls
  1. Allocation of adequate resources for family planning programme
  1. Raising age of marriage – through legal and other means
  1. Effective organization – supervision, increased field visits of senior staff
  1. Empowerment of women – promoting participation of women
  1. Training
  1. Providing effective reproductive health facilities
  1. Sensitize political leaders and religious leaders to importance of family planning
  1. Creation of social security, particularly old age security, and other welfare measures
  1. Incentives and disincentives
  1. Reducing child mortality
  1. Information, education and communication activities involving multimedia approach – fighting rumours
  1. Health insurance for children

 

  1. Creation of facilities for abortion, sterilization, IUD insertion and other contraceptives at the lowest levels of health facilities
  1. Schemes to affect sex preference such as insurance and other facilities for girl child
  1. Creating trust
  1. Fighting regional and social class disparities
  1. Facilities for recanalization after sterilization
  1. Welfare of minorities