Financial Resource Flows for Family Planning (FP Project-2014)

Agency : UNFPA and NIDI

The ‘Financial Resource Flows for Family Planning’ (FP) is being executed by NIDI in collaboration with the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA). IIHMR plays the role of outsourcing partner for data collection, processing, analysis and providing technical support to data collectors.

The backbone of the “FP project” is Family Planning 2020 (FP 2020) initiative, which is a global partnership that supports the rights of women and girls to decide freely, and for themselves, whether, when and how many children they want to have. The goal of FP 2020 is to enable 120 million more women and girls to use contraceptives by 2020. To estimate the additional resources needed for reaching this goal, there is need to know how much money is being currently spent on family planning and the allocation of such resources. The “FP project” aims to estimate expenditures on family planning within a country, and targets public and private sectors as well as NGOs.

Under the Family Planning Project 2014, financial information for 2014 has been collected during the financial year 2015-2016. Sample of 81 countries from four regions were covered in this survey. The UNFPA country offices were responsible for collecting data for each country covering relevant government organizations, NGOs, Insurance Companies and Corporations. The UNFPA country offices were provided with specially designed survey instruments. A database has been designed for the purpose of feeding and analysis of the information collected on family planning activities. IIHMR process the data submitted by the country offices through family planning database in the cloud. This database be accessed globally by all the authorized users. IIHMR also provided technical support to data collectors during the surve


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