POLICY OF FAMILY PLANNING

What is a Policy? A Policy is a statement, verbal, written or implied, of those principles and rules that are set by Board of Directors as guidelines on organizations actions

The purpose of the policy is to enable the management to relate properly to the organization’s work and its objectives

A policy of life insurance that a head of house hold has for the rest of the family.

The practice of controlling the number of children one has and the intervals between their births, particularly by means of contraception or voluntary sterilization.

DEFINITION OF FAMILY PLANNING

HISTORY In 1950, Pakistan's population reached

37 million people, making it the world's 13th most populous country.

The Family Planning Association of Pakistan (FPAP), now called "Rahnuma",

OBJECTIVES OF FPAP “REHNUMA”

Promoting family planning and several reproductive health as a basic human right.

Providing sustainable and quality several reproductive health and family planning to men, women and youth in partnership with government , NGO’s and civil society.

Improving the quality of life of the poor and the marginalized.

VISION OF FAMILY PLANNING

RAHNUMA FPAP to lead a rights based movement vising the ICPD holistic development paradigm which strengthens family well-being, enables empowerment of women, and supports youth and projects children.

Family planning policy in the 1960s.Pakistan's first Family Planning Scheme was a part of the country's Third Five Year Plan (1965–1970). This scheme became the template for all subsequent family planning strategies. The scheme's goal was to have a vast impact in the shortest time possible, with a reduction of the birth rate from 50 to 40 per 1000 by 1970.At the onset of the program, condm  were the most available method of contraception, but by 1966 the Intrauterine Device (IUD) had replaced it has the "corner-stone" of the Scheme. It was said to be "safe, cheap, reversible," and it required "little user action.

Family planning amid political turmoil

In 1969, Ayub Khan was overthrown by the joint action of right-wing religious parties and the left-wing Pakistan People's Party. His successor Yahya Khan did little more than watch as a civil war ripped apart East and West Pakistan in 1971. Wajihuddin Ahmed, the Family Planning Commissioner during Yahya Khan's rule, focused on reducing pregnancies in women "rather than meeting contraceptive targets alone" and introducing the pill to Pakistani women.

RELIGIOUS INFLUENCESWhen Ayub Khan was overthrown in 1969, religious demonstrators attempted to discredit the leader morally using the slogan "Family planning, for those who want free sex!"This ideology is still present in Pakistan, as the organized religious party opposes family planning because it is "un-Islamic". Though Pakistani couples commonly cite religious reasons for avoiding birth control, there is not one definitive agreement about family planning and contraception in Islam. In Pakistan, many local religious figures are supportive of family planning and have begun discussions in their communities in order to promote the health of women and children

CURRENT CONTRACEPTIVE USAGE (Pakistan)

ANY METHOD53%

FEMALE STERIL-IZATION

37%

MALE STERIL-IZATION

1%

IUD2%

PILL3%

CDM4%

PERCENTAGE

Current policy

Dating from 2002, Pakistan's current family planning policy reflects the government's concern with rising population trends and poverty. The policy's goals include reducing population growth (from 2.1 percent in 2002 to 1.3 by 2020), reducing fertility through voluntary family planning (from 4 births per woman in 2004 to 2.1 births per woman by 2020), and as a signatory to the Programme of Action developed at the International Conference on Population and Development in Cairo in 1994, Pakistan pledged to provide universal access to family planning by 2010.Also in Pakistan's Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper is the objective of increasing contraceptive use 57 percent by 2012.

Family planning in 2000In 2006-7, the Pakistan Demographic Health Survey of Pakistan (PDHS 2006-7) showed that approximately 30% of married women of reproductive age (MWRA) were using some form of Family Planning. Of these 8% used a traditional and 22% used a modern method. Approximately 25% had an unmet for Family Planning, of this around 2/3rd was for limiting and the rest for spacing. These translate into 7 million FP users, 5 million users of modern methods and 6 million with an unmet need. Since a large number of modern method users are sterilized and received the service in a previous year, the actual number women availing any FP service were just under 3 million or less than half of those with an unmet need. The DHS also dispelled the popular notion that religious reasons keep families from using family planning. In the DHS less than 10% of FP non users cited a religious reason for their non use.

DESIRE FOR CHILDREN (Pakistan)

38%

37%

26%

PERCENTAGE2 SONS 1 SON & 1 DAUGHTER2 DAUGHTERS

PAKISTAN POPULATION PLANNING POLICIES AND PROBLEM

Pakistan's extremely high rate of population growth is caused by a falling death rate combined with a continuing high birth rate. In 1950 the mortality rate was twenty-seven per 1,000 population; by 1990 the rate had dropped to twelve (estimated) per 1,000. Yet throughout this period, the birth rate was forty four per 1,000 population. On average, in 1990 each family had 6.2 children, and only 11 percent of couples were regularly practicing contraception.

The population planning program was uspended and substantively reorganized after the fall of Mohammad Ayub Khan's government in 1969. In late December 1971, the population was estimated at 65.2 million. In an attempt to control the population problem, the government introduced several new programs. First, the Continuous Motivation System Programme, which employed young urban women to visit rural areas, was initiated. In 1975 the Inundation Programme was added. Based on the premise that greater availability would increase use, shopkeepers throughout the country stocked birth control pills and condoms. Both programs failed, however. The unmarried urban women had little understanding of the lives of the rural women they were to motivate, and shopkeepers kept the contraceptives out of sight because it was considered mannerless to display them in an obvious way.

The population world reached seven billion in 2012. Pakistan\'s population stands at more than 180 million, is growing rapidly and has the highest unmet need for family planning (FP) in isolated rural areas. The low usage of contraception in the rural areas of Pakistan correlates with the level of isolation, poverty, illiteracy, and to a large extent, religious misinterpretations/misconceptions. Almost 25% of couples who desired FP services were not receiving them for a variety of reasons of which religion could be one, especially in the rural remote areas where the media is still not reaching and influencing mind-sets. In this scenario, the role of

The contraceptives, the restructuring of family planning (FP) programmes, and endorsements and international agreements on birth spacing, all have given new impulses to old paradigms on the subject. In this very context, Muslims and Islamic countries have always been under debate and critique. Pakistan, for instance, is one example where the FP programme has not delivered the results desired and the common perception is that it is perhaps due to religion. This is true, to some extent. The Pakistan Demographic and Health Survey (PDHS) 2006-07 showed that six percent of women were restrained from using any FP method because of religious reasons or interpretations.

These interpretations and misconceptions have been propagated to declare FP a sin. The major role in this regard indubitably is of the local clergymen. Nonetheless, there are several Islamic countries that have not only presented many success stories in this regard, but have achieved control over their fertility rate and populatiin the

CONCLUSION

Today’s child is Future of Tomorrow’s.So, children are the asset of a Nation, for a better Nation every child needs to be taken care-off properly.Be an able Citizen to make your Child as an Asset.

SMALL FAMILY HAPPY FAMILY“EVERY family IS WANTED CHILD”