2. 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
3. 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
4. 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",
5. 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.
6. 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.
7. 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.
8. 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.
9. RELIGIOUS INFLUENCES
When 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
11. 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.
12. Family planning in 2000
In 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.
14. 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.
15. 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.
16. 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
17. 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.
18. 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
19. 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”
