Family Planning Initiatives
Family planning, which is the ability of individuals and couples to anticipate and attain their desired number of children and the spacing and timing of their births, is achieved through use of contraceptive methods and the treatment of involuntary infertility. Family planning is a means of promoting the health of women and families as well as part of the strategy to reduce the high maternal, infant and child mortality. People in a reproductive age group shall be offered the opportunity to determine the number and spacing of their own children. Information about family planning should be made available for those in need to promote informed decision making up on service use irrespective of their marital status who fits eligibility criteria for FP services including information, education and counseling.
In consideration of the diverse client need, FGAE has set an ambitious target to address the family planning demands through availing of all method options to users across service delivery modalities. To this effect the Association exerted an extensive effort on systems development, partnership building and effective networking with strategic partners in the private and public sector to reach out more clients.
- Improve access to integrated facility-based FP services, with special focus on LAPM
- Provide capacity building for service providers (staff & HEWs) on (Basic FP,QOC, Counseling, LT & PM)
- Establish linkage/partnership with community based health extension FP and other SRH services actors
- Conduct partnership review meeting
- Strengthen and scale up LTPM of family planning services (through HEWs, facility based-franchising & outreach)
- Promote social marketing of contraceptive products and services
- Facility development/ renovation/ upgrading for FP and other SRH services
- Improve the capacity of health workers in diagnosis & case management of integrating SRH service
- Ensure FP commodities security at all levels of SDPs
- Strengthen referral linkage at each level
- Ensure/ Improve the quality of service
- Ensure mentoring for quality improvement / improve integrated supportive supervision at all level
