In order to achieve the above goals Population Commission has identified 12 strategic themes. These are given below:

1. Decentralised planning and programme implementation
2. Convergence of service delivery at village levels
3. Empowering women for improved health and nutrition
4. Child health and survival
5. Meeting the unmet needs for family welfare services in urban and rural areas
6. Meeting the unmet needs for family welfare services specially among urban slums, tribal communities, hill area populations and displaced and migrant populations, and adolescents, and securing increased participation of men in planned parenthood
7. Diverse health care providers
8. Collaboration with and commitments from non-government organisations and the private sector
9. Mainstreaming Indian systems of medicine and homeopathy
10. Contraceptive technology and research on reproductive and child health
11. Contraceptive technology and research on reproductive and child health
12. Information, education, and communication

It is clear that in 2000 there was a paradigm shift in population policy. The NPP 2000 has made family welfare a new responsibility of village panchayats. They are expected to develop area specific, needs based approaches to reproductive health services. It is believed that empowerment of women – political, economic and social – would strengthen this process further. The new policy suggests preparing need-based, demand driven, socio-demographic plans at the village level, aimed at identifying and providing responsive, people-centred and integrated, basic reproductive and child health care.