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YEAR: 1997

CATEGORY: Contraception (Birth Control) and Family Planning

TITLE

A cost analysis of family planning in Bangladesh.

AUTHORS

Fiedler JL; Day LM

SOURCE

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HEALTH PLANNING AND MANAGEMENT. 1997

Oct-Dec;12(4):251-77.

ABSTRACT

A successful supply-side approach has governed the delivery of family planning in Bangladesh for the past 20 years.

The heart of the current system is an extensive community-based distribution (CBD) system which provides free

door-to-door services and visits almost every eligible couple in the country 6 times per year. However, considerable

program overlap and duplication waste resources. The current system is also inefficient because of its reliance

upon relatively more expensive re-supply methods and its failure to consider contraceptive demand. With US Agency

for International Development (USAID) funding likely to be reduced in the coming years, an impending need exists to

improve system efficiency. Findings are presented from a step-down cost analysis using secondary data sources

from 26 Bangladeshi nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) which provide family planning services through a

USAID-funded umbrella organization. 56% of total expenditures in this 2-tiered umbrella's organizational structure are

incurred in management operations and overhead expenses. 88% of the remaining program funds are spent upon

the CBD program and 12% are spent upon maternal-child health (MCH) clinic activities. Most CBD program

resources are spent providing 4 million contacts which do not involve contraceptive re-supply, with the clinics

devoting more resources to providing MCH services than to providing family planning services. Significant savings

could be generated through containing administrative costs, improving operational efficiency, and reducing

unnecessary or redundant field worker contacts. (PubHealth.info Document ID: CONT2T 520-06)

PubHealth.info NOTE: The author(s) of this article titled, "A cost analysis of family planning in Bangladesh.", is(are)

Fiedler JL; Day LM. The source of this article is "INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HEALTH PLANNING AND

MANAGEMENT. 1997 Oct-Dec;12(4):251-77.". This article was published in 1997 in English language(s).

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